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

2011-05-06 Thread Polytropon
k or pkg_add -r to install the ports you want to have on your system. I hope I did understand your statement correctly. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 6 May 2011 19:09:58 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2011 19:50:47 +0200 > Polytropon articulated: > > > On Fri, 6 May 2011 10:30:58 -0700, David Brodbeck > > wrote: > > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Bill Tillman > > > wrote: > > &g

Re: Comparing two lists

2011-05-06 Thread Polytropon
ion. Now I need > to compare the files and output a list of lines that exist in both > files. Is there a simple way to do this? diff? awk? sed? cmp? Or a > combination of two or more of them? I would suggest using a combination of sort, uniq and diff. Those are base system tools.

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-07 Thread Polytropon
ill always be funny (for "us") when the technical basis of some procedure is removed (due to evolution in technology). Then, they "surprisingly" and "right now" encounter problems they can't solve. And then, it gets REALLY expensive. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-07 Thread Polytropon
opular intant messengers sometimes are even more problematic, i. e. when the terms of use for those services state that IF you use the service, you delegate all your rights on the messages written to the provider of the service. Bob: i made great invention today will bring many money Tim: cool te

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread Polytropon
ee above) it's the WindowMaker configuration tool that assigns xlock to a specific key. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread Polytropon
ensaver-hacks xscreensaver-getimage xscreensaver-text xscreensaver-getimage-file Note there's also % man xscreensaver with some helpful information - launching and configuration in detail. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: invalid partition error help needed.

2011-05-07 Thread Polytropon
"get back" your "Windows"). Without knowledge _what_ gives you the error message mentioned above, diagnostics are quite complicated, and so are suggestions for repair procedures. Try to explain what you did, how you did it, and how the error occurs. -- Polytrop

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread Polytropon
nt works. > what should be done? Add it to ~/.xinitrc then - to be precise: add it to the file where you also have the entry for your window manager (in this case, the one with the "exec fluxbox" line). Can only be one of those two. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-08 Thread Polytropon
page for details. Everything else "feels" to be correct so far. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Polytropon
ility makes the user perform tasks quick and efficiently. So as a summary to the OP: Install the Midnight Commander, and make heavy use of PF3 and PF4. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ fre

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Polytropon
quot;man "). You can also access them online. On the web page, you'll also find the FreeBSD Handbook and the FAQ which may be helpful. Vice versa, you'll also find them locally on your system, so getting the informations needed does not depend on being online - sometimes a

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-10 Thread Polytropon
so mount operates on partition (associating them to mountpoints, and as you correctly pointed out, mount options can include the prohibition of SUID execution using the "nosuid" option). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user si

Re: make the iso image

2011-05-10 Thread Polytropon
ou want to create a backup (dump/restore) from your installed system onto optical media? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: make the iso image

2011-05-10 Thread Polytropon
/articles/releng/ FreeBSD Release Engineering of Third Party Packages: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/ PS. Plase avoid top-posting; and I'm re-including the list, hope that's okay. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD us

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-11 Thread Polytropon
form that "Skype" will be unusable at some point in time, or will be quite limited in what you can actually do with it. When MICROS~1 incorporates the "Skype" customer base... who knows, maybe you'll soon need a "Hotmail" account to call someone by phone, as soon as MIC

Re: Installing .bin file?

2011-05-12 Thread Polytropon
ns on FreeBSD, run % chmod +x % ./ The .bin seems to indicate that it is a binary file, so the 3rd method mentioned should apply. If you need root privileges for the installation process, use su or sudo / super / ... according to your preferences. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-15 Thread Polytropon
"issue" may be of some value since I did not > do any src updates. While moused is part of the base system (updated per source or freebsd-update), dbus and hal are ports (job for portmaster). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Polytropon
ibrary... I'm not sure it's trivial to find out which one it is. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: CD Boot to install hangs

2011-05-16 Thread Polytropon
ore importantly, how do I fix it? I'm not sure, I sadly don't own iHardware. Maybe check cables of optical drive? At least the kernel boots - that's good for the beginning. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Polytropon
been said to be the means for automounting local media, and maybe is in conjuction with Samba. If you can disable such functionality via "make config" for the gnome-mount port, MAYBE there is a chance to avoid HAL in this specific case. -- Polytropon Magdeb

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-17 Thread Polytropon
already have KDE-based programs on your system (or even use KDE as a desktop environment), a look at them may be useful. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-17 Thread Polytropon
automatically. The result was a PDF file for sending and for printing. Of course, it is totally insane to do so. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-19 Thread Polytropon
you can consult your "before" configuration files to change the "after" ones, or simply re-use them if possible. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-19 Thread Polytropon
user that is not there (the shell), as bash is not part of the base system. Still it seems that you'll do most of the work mentioned in the above paragraph as root, you will use root's default shell (which is csh) anyway. -- Polytropon Magde

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-20 Thread Polytropon
ng fails at boot stage, use the live sytem to re-"install" the old kernel. But in fact, this should not be required. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-20 Thread Polytropon
be percentages of the available slice or disk space. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-20 Thread Polytropon
ackup of the old kernel. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Over-whelmed by ports and package tools

2011-05-20 Thread Polytropon
> I'm sure I will be > trying the next version PC-BSD. Hopefully to be released soon. If you want a preconfigured system and don't mind the sloppy support for the german language, PC-BSD is a very good piece of software. Still I have to express Mr. Horse's primary opinion abo

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-20 Thread Polytropon
ackup kernel, and maybe you find some stuff you can safely delete from the / partition (e. g. check /root). Also, read /usr/src/Makefile's comment header about the recommended procedure for updating the system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user s

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-21 Thread Polytropon
s you encounter hardware problems with the disk, you should try to find a recovery lab you can trust. It can be a very complicated search, and the result will traditionally also be expensive. This is the case when they can do something you can't do on yourself (e. g

Re: The Perfect Desktop: FreebSD 8.2 in Virtualbox 4?

2011-05-22 Thread Polytropon
g, but you could easily write your own installer that uses e. g. ZFS or GPT initialisation for the (virtual) disk instead of the traditional run of fdisk + disklabel + newfs. Providing packages for the required software (and ALL their dependencies) would also be a good step, so installation could ev

Re: The Perfect Desktop: FreebSD 8.2 in Virtualbox 4?

2011-05-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:56:37 -0400, Xn Nooby wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:17:50 -0400, Xn Nooby wrote: > >> HowtoForge has a lot of good examples of how to install and configure > >> a desktop system using

Re: Filename containing French characters ?

2011-05-23 Thread Polytropon
ause) would be to install the Midnight Commander and use it in a UTF-8 capable terminal in X (but also works in text mode), move the cursor to a file and press PF6 (rename), then enter a name in ASCII. Using this approach, you don't have to enter the original file name

Re: How to change Fluxbox resolution?

2011-05-25 Thread Polytropon
tDepth24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: How to change Fluxbox resolution?

2011-05-25 Thread Polytropon
ed this way, but should work. I would assume it to work; because X.org (unlike XFree86) can't get my 21" CRT to run at 1400x1050, I have to start X per xorg.conf with mode 1152x864 and then do xrandr --fb 1400x1050 xrandr --size 1400x1050 per ~/.xinitrc. See "m

Re: installing rpm wavemaker

2011-06-01 Thread Polytropon
if I must install a Linux version > of java. As the program itself requires the Linux ABI, I would assume that the jli library does the same. The request for libjli.so seems to refer to a Linux library, so you will need to install some Linux-Java in order to get that working. -- Polytropon M

Re: acroread9 - kernel module load error

2011-06-02 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 23:43:51 +0200, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > We need a kernel module to see some pdf with acrobat now? I was thinking exactly the same (without further investigation). Luckily xpdf and gv, as well as Gnome's and KDE's PDF viewer don't need kernel modules. :-)

Re: Where's my disk?

2011-06-04 Thread Polytropon
system (but without the possibility to connect a keyboard). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: Where's my disk?

2011-06-04 Thread Polytropon
(Sparcs and Ultras) that I connected to using a real serial terminal - fully sufficient, used less than once per year. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Polytropon
attrib -i index [-f flags] geom" is mentioned in the synopsis, but there's no further mentioning of the -a option and its parameters. Maybe (haven't tested!) "gpart set -a active -i 1 ad4s1" is equivalent to setting the "A" flag using sysinstall? --

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Polytropon
least have the "base" src pack because of the Makefile installed.) You can use this to update your sources any time you want. Instead of -STABLE, you can also request -RELEASE, -RELEASE-pX (the security branch), or -CURRENT. (You can use a similar approach to get the ports/ subtre

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

2011-06-08 Thread Polytropon
't need to care for character representation (as everything will always be ASCII). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

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

2011-06-08 Thread Polytropon
the other. As Alexander mentioned, display for 8851-1 and -15 even work in text mode console (using cons25l1) in terms of Umlauts and Eszett. The "speciality" of -15, the Euro symbol, won't be displayed if I remember correctly. Maybe the "currency symbol" (squished bug)

Re: make one partition with two existing ?

2011-06-09 Thread Polytropon
usr/var.dump Finally you can remove /usr/var.dump. And make a change to /etc/fstab for the new setting. The whole work is best done in single user mode so there won't be requests for writing things to /var. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe,

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

2011-06-09 Thread Polytropon
aren't present... not fully sure. > I only set this in the .login_conf; > > me:\ > :charset=iso-8859-1:\ > :lang=sv_SE.ISO8859-1: > > And all is fine and dandy, except gqview only understands utf-8 I assume this does define LC_* / LANG variable

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Polytropon
s's (also?) called "Tab Window Manager". Is my brain wrong here? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Polytropon
nvironment (unless you set an environmental variable via export command). If the script would be executed by cron with one shell call per line... but I think that it isn't done that way as it sounds too wrong... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe,

Re: OT: printer, our cups port, and is-there-a-generic-laser?

2011-06-16 Thread Polytropon
ers are quite good, as well as Kyocera, but I don't have own experience with them, so I traditionally suggest getting a HP printer. Office printer. Used office printer. For cheap. Really. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: OT: printer, our cups port, and is-there-a-generic-laser?

2011-06-16 Thread Polytropon
" USB inkpee printer, and we'll discuss in 20 years if it is still working. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:29:42 +0400, Peter Vereshagin wrote: > Lawyers are so lawyers ;-) Two lawyers, three opinions. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Polytropon
d under what conditions. That's copyright. > (Even if your conditions are just 'don't take off my trademark'.) > > You'd probably also want people to know who wrote it, so you'd put your > name on it. That's a trademark. Thanks for making t

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Polytropon
t's the basis of whole econimical, social, financial and clerical societies... > So as for me it's just no problem if you claim that code I release is yours. If you _allow_ this (by not restricting the use with the means of usage or licensing terms), it's completely okay, v

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:03:16 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:50:40AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:07:08 +0400, Peter Vereshagin wrote: > > > > > > It's just a matter of a freedom to speech to me. And

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Polytropon
ibly needed information (like addresses) are in the mail header anyway. > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:38:42AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:03:16 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:50:40AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > > Soft

Problems compiling 8-STABLE/amd64 system on Intel Core2 4300

2011-06-18 Thread Polytropon
ar case? 2. Which is the correct CPUTYPE setting for my CPU? Any advice would help me to make the transition to my new (haha) home desktop within this year. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread Polytropon
majority of systems out there would be great, on _any_ free operating system (not "just Linux"). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: Problems compiling 8-STABLE/amd64 system on Intel Core2 4300

2011-06-18 Thread Polytropon
not from ports!) will be able to do the same run using CPUTYPE=core2. Thanks for the hint! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Problems compiling 8-STABLE/amd64 system on Intel Core2 4300

2011-06-18 Thread Polytropon
* Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. Seems that neither "core" and "core2" are fully supported. Which CPUTYPE should be used for Intel Core2 4300 then, or can it be omitted without problems? -- Polytropon M

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:44:11 +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:23:15 +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > >> I think we have to wait for somebody to write a Skype clone and > >> hopefully MS taking over Sky

Re: Problems compiling 8-STABLE/amd64 system on Intel Core2 4300

2011-06-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:52:06 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > Seems that neither "core" and "core2" are fully supported. Which > > CPUTYPE should be used for Intel Core2 4300 then, or can it be >

Re: Problems compiling 8-STABLE/amd64 system on Intel Core2 4300

2011-06-18 Thread Polytropon
BKTR_USE_PLL options BKTR_GPIO_ACCESS options BKTR_USE_FREEBSD_SMBUS I also have the dependencies (smbus) for this device added. Is there a known problem with this (admittedly oldfashioned) hardware on 8-STABLE/amd64 I should know of? In the meantime, I'll also comme

Re: Problems compiling 8-STABLE/amd64 system on Intel Core2 4300

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:32:24 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:15:16 +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > >> I've used "nocona" with my core2 with satisfactory results. > > > > Is there

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
usually is of high value that is in NO relation to its price (for the end user, which is zero), simply because it has to be on par with the "big ones", and in many cases, it is _better_ than the "big ones", because its developers don't

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
pts (shell, awk, sed, perl and so on). They now do fully function and produce high quality documents, used for web publication and printing. They were coming from a MICROS~1 environment, and they had never believed me that investing a little time into learning could make them that productive. Produc

Re: Problems compiling 8-STABLE/amd64 system on Intel Core2 4300

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
searching for. Now it's quite easy to deduct the correect CPUTYPE <- -m <- actual processor name. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
e, you can find out such things - you have error messages and sources to check. In proprietary software, you can call the manufacturer, he then claims he doesn't have the problem, and you're screwed. I've just seen that situation with a book-keeping software running on

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
ment (less power consumption), and it's also good because it needs less administration time. On the other hand, it allows flexibility and easy use. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
is fully uninteresting, and it is so for many years. I couldn't care less. > The same can be said of any OS. For instance, with FreeBSD one catch is > that there are virtually no drivers for "N" class wireless devices even > though said devices have been available for ov

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
At next system startup, there won't be a long fsck run. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:46:24 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:36:17PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > You can easily deduct what happens when the table of contents changes, > > or when the font size changes. Hell, I've even seen people doing two > > co

Re: How to repair networking

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
and then restore the data to the system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: How to connect a projector to a FreeBSD laptop?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
/LCD" key (usually among the PF keys on top) you need to press with the "Fn" key. This will cycle through three modes: LCD only -> LCD and CRT -> CRT only. Press this once or twice, and you should get output on the projector. -- Polytropon Ma

Re: New FreeBSD8.2 server install.

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
6Ghz Machine (32-bit CPU), like I > mentioned, I just don't know what to do and am looking for some > suggestions. One thing is to use gstripe and gmirror, other is ZFS (but your machine should be _good_ to actually make use of it). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy F

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
about, so it gives you MORE POWER! :-) Command line tools, unlike GUI, allow you to automate things, and finally, this means more profit for a company employing such a system. > For portability in particular, consider the problems of XFCE portability, > and the fact there are people

Re: How to repair networking

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
ither from source or by installing precompiled packages (my preferred method for 99% of the software). The less undefined or unknown things are in the game, the better it is. Everything else introduces guessing or trial & error, which traditionally leads to more confusion. -- Polytropon Magdeb

Re: LTO3 tape drive not detected

2011-06-23 Thread Polytropon
arget 6 lun 0 (pass0) at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (cd0,pass1) This example shows a SCSI scanner at 0:6:0, the controller is an Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter (PCI), driver is ahc0, as real SCSI hardware. If you're using the ATAPICAM facility, don't get confused with the ATAPI devices being on

Re: why "{" is treated as vi(1) section delimiter

2011-06-24 Thread Polytropon
nd end the emphasized sequence by \rm, falling back to "normal" roman typeface. But as I said, I'm using {\em ...}, {\bf ...}, {\tt ...} and so on on a regular basis. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-27 Thread Polytropon
hich should be fine. Next to two GUI modes (light, heavy) it also has a versatile "maintenance mode" for such operations. I have already successfully used this system for solving similar situations, for diagnostics, and for data recovery preparation. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happ

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Polytropon
uot; for virtual hosts or other means. Make the system more efficient than a light bulb. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Attempting to get an X11 server running

2011-06-30 Thread Polytropon
-fb 1920x1080 xrandr --size 1920x1080 I'm using this method since X.org can't get my CRT working at the desired mode 1400x1050 (which XFree86 perfectly did) and insists on running the insufficent mode 1152x864 only. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: why desktop apps are able to kill my freebsd box?

2011-07-01 Thread Polytropon
what does actually happen when the problem occurs. Options would be to separate programs in jails, or even try to run them on a VM (e. g. VirtualBox running a FreeBSD install with that program). Also make absolutely sure your hardware is okay, e. g. use memtest to check the RAM (often an indicator

Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-01 Thread Polytropon
of LZMA Utils eases transition from LZMA Utils to XZ Utils. WWW: http://tukaani.org/xz/ -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-02 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:26:14 +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > On 02/07/2011 07:38, Polytropon wrote: > > It's xz compression, archivers/xz from ports, which is > > ...but before you install it you may find it is part of the base system. > > %pkg_info -Ix xz > pkg_in

Re: Mouse problem on ThinkPad X61

2011-07-03 Thread Polytropon
stop xorg from using HAL to > detect input devices, there are two good ways: > > 1. Set Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" > 2. Build xorg-server with the HAL option disabled. I would suggest the last option. Build X without HAL, run -configure, modify xorg.conf as

Re: mount /unmount

2011-07-04 Thread Polytropon
se scenario, you shouldn't need this in the first place). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: mount /unmount

2011-07-04 Thread Polytropon
ganization.html 18.3 Adding Disks http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-adding.html 19.6 Labeling Disk Devices http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-glabel.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: the alternative function for inet_aton

2011-07-04 Thread Polytropon
;re using), you can find /usr/src/include/arpa with the file, and you should be able to "make install" (not tested here) from there to install arpa/inet.h into the correct location. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: the alternative function for inet_aton

2011-07-04 Thread Polytropon
# cd /usr/src/include/arpa # make install I've _not_ tested that, but it should install the files mentioned above to the correct location. Okay, basically you could simply cope the files if it fails... :-) PS. I've re-included the list, hope that's okay. -- Po

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Polytropon
rks: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/All/m4-1.4.16,1.tbz Just change "packages-8-STABLE" to "packages-8-stable" and try again. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Polytropon
e relies on that, pkg_add for example doesn't), you should make sure to always have the current version if you follow the stable OS branch. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-

Re: buildworld from FreeBSD 8.1 to FreeBSD 8.2

2011-07-11 Thread Polytropon
9. `mergemaster' (you may wish to use -U or -ai). # 10. `reboot' # 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) # # See src/UPDATING `COMMON ITEMS' for more complete information. -

Re: atheros 9285 wifi

2011-07-13 Thread Polytropon
e-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) # # See src/UPDATING `COMMON ITEMS' for more complete information. This is /usr/src/Makefile of course. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: atheros 9285 wifi

2011-07-13 Thread Polytropon
sion. Refer to the FreeBSD Handbook for a more detailed description. > I'm providing services to very green users so I'd like to stay close > to reliable as possible- hence my addiction with the release versions. As I said, STABLE is interesting if you need features that you wo

Re: CUPS and Windows Printers

2011-07-13 Thread Polytropon
today, maybe you could also ask this question in a CUPS web forum? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: help

2011-07-14 Thread Polytropon
) See "man mount_smbfs" for details. Still I hope this gives you some help and further inspirations on what to read. PS. It's useful specifying a subject related to your question, not just "help". -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andr

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Polytropon
the "error loop" into this construct - which would in case of a Firefox crash return to the command line! -, you can easily construct a loop in the .login file around the "extended" startx command. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe,

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Polytropon
eter together with -g for the geometry settings to make it as big as the screen, e. g. dillo -f -g 1024x768+0+0 /what/to/display.html But as I said, it depends on _what_ you actually want to display (in terms of HTML content). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Polytropon
elements keep being present. But maybe there's something you can do by configuration file, so getting rid of navigational bars should be possible too. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ free

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Polytropon
stems can't reflect the -p option of shutdown, just -h is possible). I hope this is a little inspiration about what's possible if you're willing to get your hands dirty. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

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