Re: CVSup question

2007-01-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:20:03AM -0800, Charlie McElfresh wrote: After the update finished, I noticed that some of my ports that were there before, notably php5-cgi, were no longer there. Check out Freshports: http://www.freshports.org/commits.php This gives you an overview of recently

Re: [Fwd: Looking to upgrade my hardware and run 6.2-RELEASE]

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:56:22PM -0500, Glenn Sieb wrote: I said... Since I tend to build my own boxes, I'd like to make sure my choice of CPU/MB is good fro FBSD before I buy :-) I'm looking at an AMD X2 64 5400 and an Abit AN9 32X. The AN9 has: NVIDIA nForce SPP 190/nForce

Re: conflict between gimp-print and gutenprint

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 11:44:38PM -0800, David Benfell wrote: Hello all, I am running FreeBSD 6.2 with CUPS and a printer--specifically an HP Color LaserJet 5500-DN--that only seems to want to print with the Gutenprint port installed. Even with the Gutenprint port installed, I had to

Re: via dri ?

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:04:43PM +0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody VIA CLE266 integrated video card? If any - have you set up direct rendering with it? It should be possible to get it working, but you might need to tweak Xorg:

Re: conflict between gimp-print and gutenprint

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:57:40AM -0800, David Benfell wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:39:44 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 11:44:38PM -0800, David Benfell wrote: Hello all, I am running FreeBSD 6.2 with CUPS and a printer--specifically an HP Color LaserJet 5500

Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 12:45:45PM -0700, Kenny Dail wrote: I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like

Re: conflict between gimp-print and gutenprint

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:16:44PM -0800, David Benfell wrote: snip Okay, it prints now. Inexplicably, the printer thought it was paused. (My cat must have done it.) Now to try this... In the GIMP, set up the printer as PostScript level 2, and also provide the PPD file. Okay, I did

Re: 6.2: upgrade, or just install and restore rc.conf?

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:44:43PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: Presuming you have a 1 or 2 user system, and haven't done alot of mods, is there any reason to upgrade to 6.2 as opposed to just install it? Of the maybe 10 files I've modified, I have backed them up elsewhere, and it's fresh in my

Re: 6.1-STABLE spontaneously reboots!

2006-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:55:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This server was in production and rock steady with 4.10-STABLE for years. Before moving it to a colo center, I took it offline and did a clean install of 6.1, cvsup'd to STABLE on 8/30/06 and then installed the latest stable

Re: this AMD motherboard?

2005-12-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 06:16:41PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Can anyone tell if the graphics chips on this card will work with X? snip http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?DetailID=422MenuID=24LanID=9 Looks like it will work:

Re: this AMD motherboard?

2005-12-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:48:55AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:50:42AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 06:16:41PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Can anyone tell if the graphics chips on this card will work with X? snip http://www.ecs.com.tw

Re: run commands on boot/loading modules

2005-12-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:13:01PM -0700, TuxGirl wrote: Hi, There are 3 commands I was having to run each time that I started up my computer, and I'm trying to figure out the correct way to have them run automatically. kldload if_iwi iwicontrol -i iwi- -d /usr/local/share/iwi-firmware

Re: Off-Topic

2005-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:35:18PM +, Uncle Deejy-Pooh wrote: We've another contender for the 'Signature-of-the-Forum' award. This one spotted from Jayesh Jayan: The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Although I'm SURE it should read . FreeBSD !

Re: devd.conf question

2005-12-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 04:01:03PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: snip attach 0 { device-name da[0-9]+; action /usr/sbin/chown root:umass $device-name;chmod 660 $device-name; }; after inserting USB DataTraveller this action isn't performed and i still needs to be root

Re: how to track 6.0 increments ?

2005-12-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:20:06AM +0800, ke.han wrote: I have installed 6.0 and would like to follow important changes before something labeled 6.1 comes out. What is the prescribed method for this? I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't think). I just want security fixes and

Re: how to track 6.0 increments ?

2005-12-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:39:34AM +0800, ke.han wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:20:06AM +0800, ke.han wrote: I have installed 6.0 and would like to follow important changes before something labeled 6.1 comes out. What is the prescribed method for this? I don't

Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?

2005-12-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:40:01PM -0500, wrangled wrote: I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have 512MB RAM. According to this page:

Re: newbie

2005-12-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:54:46PM -0600, Douglass, Erik wrote: After being an Windows/Cisco IT professional for the past 7 years, I have decided to make the plunge over to FreeBSD on my own time. I have it installed, and it is quite overwhelming. If anyone has any recommendations/tips or

Re: pf blocking nfs

2005-11-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:52:25AM -0600, Will Maier wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:56:59PM -0600, Aaron P. Martinez wrote: Aaron P. Martinez wrote: [...] I realize i could just accept all udp packets from the NFS server or even just ports 2049, but the underlying question is, why

Re: pf blocking nfs

2005-11-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 05:42:30PM -0600, Aaron Martinez wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:02, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:58:48PM -0600, Aaron P. Martinez wrote: I am running FreeBSD 6.0-release and setting up a very basic firewall using pf on my workstation

Re: HOWTO write udf (on cd/dvd/hd wherever)

2005-11-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:46:50PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I see mount_udf(8), and I see many mentions of dvd+rw-tools, and growisofs. tried to use mount_udf - no success. can't even mount dvd+rw that was treated with newfs_udf (which works) I couldn't find a newfs_udf on 6.0,

Re: HOWTO write udf (on cd/dvd/hd wherever)

2005-11-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:48:24AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:46:50PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I see mount_udf(8), and I see many mentions of dvd+rw-tools, and growisofs. tried to use mount_udf - no success. can't even mount dvd+rw that was treated with

Re: make index make fetchindex

2005-11-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:11:08AM +0100, bsd wrote: Hello, I have a little script that I run twice a week that updates my ports automatically. I have quite often errors with the make index line because I have a refuse file to fasten the process of updating my server. My question

Re: Very slow printing on 5.4 with cups anh HP LaserJet 4L

2005-11-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:18:49AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how did you change the setting? My 932c used to print 3 or 4 lines per pass and now it does one line per pass I had the exact same problem, except with a Deskjet 932C. Someone on the list said man lptcontrol and set

Re: are there some function in C to notify about the OS used?

2005-11-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 07:16:21PM +0100, Javier Matos wrote: I was programming an application to work with system process that can be found in /proc path and now I must to migrate my application to a linux OS but the structure of status file is different. I made two procedures to take

Re: Some questions about ports system

2005-11-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:29:07AM +0100, Guillaume R. wrote: Hi At the end of a portsclean -LPPDDC I got this: ** Clean out /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg manually on occasions. ** Try using libchk(1) (sysutils/libchk) to find out unreferenced libraries. I'm asking thus some questions, the one is

Re: Yesterday's -STABLE kernel corrupts LAN

2005-11-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 06:38:07PM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: Hi, I updated -STABLE yesterday and since my FreeBSD machine is set up as gateway my home network broke down completely. I rebooted into last weeks kernel and everything worked as usual. Has anyone else seen this or have I been

Re: args to `make` within the ports tree

2005-11-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:50:19AM -0500, Mike Hernandez wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:35:13PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: There appears to be so many arguments to `make` when compiling applications fro the ports tree. What beats me is where they are documented ;)

Re: cannot erase cd-rw

2005-11-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:16:35PM -0600, Brian John wrote: For some reason, I can't erase cd-rws. I have tried K3b, cdrecord and burncd. Below is the output from cdrecord, can someone please help out? Well, I can confirm the issue. I have the same problem with 6.0-STABLE amd64.

[OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X

2005-11-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:29:41PM +0100, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: snip But Unix has been available for MacOS users for a long time, far before MacOS X went out and using a Mach kernel. It has been since 1996, over a Mach kernel. Apple had its own UNIX running on 68k hardware since 1998:

Re: Switching from AMD64 to IA32

2005-11-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:07:41AM -0500, Ian Lord wrote: Hi, I installed freebsd 6.0 AMD64 version. I'm starting to feel it aint a so good idea because some commercial vendors doesnt provide binairies for it... PDFLIb, zend optimizer, etc So I was wandering, in the worst case

Re: Creating bootable DOS floppy w/FreeBSD

2005-11-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:32:13PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm stuck... I need a bootable DOS floppy (for BIOS upgrade) to fix a broken Windows box. I have no problem formatting and putting an msdosfs on a floppy but it appears I cannot make it bootable with native tools. I've

Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

2005-11-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:00:41PM +0100, Blue Raccoon wrote: Joe, Thanks for your tips. On Tuesday 15 November 2005 18:37, Joe Altman wrote: I suggest trying to put this after the niash in the dll.conf file: :/dev/uscanner0 I did, but it makes no difference. You should verify that

Re: Printer prints garbage

2005-11-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:15:50PM +0100, Ron wrote: 2005/11/15, James Bailie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ron wrote: I am using Cups(I forgot to mention this). I know nothing of CUPS. The manual is online however, at: http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html#3_7 After a quick perusal,

Re: aacPlus audio stream?

2005-11-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:16:16PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Does FBSD have any ports that can play the new gee-whiz aacPlus audio? It should work with faad2; /usr/ports/audio/faad. There are also xmms plugins that use faad, but they're not in ports, AFAICT. Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

2005-11-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 10:52:07PM +0100, Blue Raccoon wrote: Then I rebooted, plugged the scanner in and got this: I missed that at first reading. :-/ uscanner0: vendor 0x03f0 product 0x045, rev 1.00/0.00, addr 2 Are you sure about these numbers? The product number should be four digits.

Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

2005-11-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:25:12PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: You should verify that /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf has the line niash in it. It did exist on my 5.4 machinebut then: You cut put a line like

Re: Makefile and Kernel Optimizations in 6.0

2005-11-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:23:22AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have read on this forum that the /etc/make.conf file has been moved in version 6.0. I assume that although it has been moved, that it still serves the same purpose as it did in the 5.4 version. Is that correct? It hasn't been

Re: device pf

2005-11-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:23:05AM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote: I cannot find the device pf settings anylonger in de GENERIC kernel config, /nor/ is it mentioned in NOTES. It isn't mentioned in the architecture specific notes (/usr/src/sys/$ARCH/conf/NOTES) but it is mentioned in the

Re: converting a .chm file

2005-11-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:38:53AM -0500, Dave wrote: Hello, I've got some .chm files i'd like to move. I was wondering if anyone know of a cli tool to convert them to another format, perhaps pdf, rtf, html, or plain text? If you mean Compiled HTML files as used by Windows, there is a

Re: Help: Asus P5WD2 mobo and ITE IDE controller problem

2005-11-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:13:51AM +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, I have had a system configured using this mobo and have hit a showstopper. The HDD (a seagate 330GB IDE) have been connected to the ITE IDE controller while the DVDrom has been connected to the primary IDE controller.

Re: disk layout

2005-11-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:18:52AM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I have still a small question. I'll install FreeBSD-6 on a 160G drive. Is it OK to just use the normal layout (/ /var /tmp /usr) or will it be smarter to create some slices extra like /home or /data ? All slices are on the same

Re: usb flashdrive not working on 6.0

2005-11-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:42:10AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, After my old flashdrive broke down, I bought a new one and updated my machine to 6.0-STABLE (amd64). The new flashdrive is not recognized when I plug

Re: question regarding portupgrade for php on 5.3

2005-11-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:33:05AM -0500, Steve wrote: Forgive me if this is either a n00b or dumb question...this is the first time I'm trying things this way. I'm using 5.3 on i386 architechture. I have installed the portupgrade package with the intention of upgrading php4 on my box

Re: usb flashdrive not working on 6.0

2005-11-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:42:10AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Not offhand, but why don't you just try adding ehci to your kernel and see what happens? I didn't because the manpage says it's buggy, but I'll try. Adding ehci to the kernel seems to have fixed the problem. A da device is

usb flashdrive not working on 6.0

2005-11-10 Thread Roland Smith
Hi, After my old flashdrive broke down, I bought a new one and updated my machine to 6.0-STABLE (amd64). The new flashdrive is not recognized when I plug it in. There is no reaction whatsoever from the usb subsystem. This is the flash drive in question:

Re: 5.4 to 6.0 upgrade

2005-11-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:38:00AM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi fbsder, I just upgraded my 5.4 to 6.0 last night and encounter some problems, please forgive me if this has already been brought up... I cvsup the source by changing RELENG_5 to RELENG_6, do the cvsup and follow the old routine

Re: upgrade package questions

2005-11-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:33:33PM -0600, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Hello All, Could someone please tell me how to upgrade a package over the web? The -r option of pkg_add allows you to get remote packages. So you could first forcibly deinstall the old package with 'pkg_delete -f', and than

Re: 5.2 x hangs

2005-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:27:23AM +0300, Ivan S. Anisimov wrote: Hello, I've recently upgraded from 5.0 to 5.2 (custom kernel with the only addition - device pcm) and encountered the following problem: x server hangs the whole system time after time on initialization or shutdown. x starts

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:11:42AM -0800, Micah wrote: I cleaned out all the fans, but they weren't that dirty. I can't test the temps while the system is under load (have to reboot and check them in the bios). Try xmbmon of mbmon from the/usr/ports/sysutils/xmbmon port. That should help

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:17:48AM -0800, Micah wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:11:42AM -0800, Micah wrote: I cleaned out all the fans, but they weren't that dirty. I can't test the temps while the system is under load (have to reboot and check them in the bios

Re: enable smp / hyperthreading

2005-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:53:20PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've just installed 6.0-RELASE and am trying to get SMP to work (I have af Pentium 4 with HT). So I've compiled the kernel with 'options SMP' and according to dmesg the two CPUs are found: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor

Re: relocating /tmp to other media

2005-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:54:29PM -0500, Dave wrote: Hello, I'm trying to run bitdefender on a 5.4 system. It works fine up until / fills up, i'm having it scan a 40 gb smb mounted windows share and when / fills specifically /tmp bitdefender cores out. My / filesystem on this box is i

Re: NFS Installation Issues

2005-11-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 07:51:29PM +1030, Matthew Smith wrote: Hi Having used AIX for about twenty years and Linux for nearly ten, I have decided to start exploring the possibilities of FreeBSD and have just downloaded the ISOs for Version 6/i386. I have attempted to do an install from

Re: NFS Installation Issues

2005-11-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 06:58:38AM +1030, Matthew Smith wrote: I assume that there's a kernel module not loaded, so after looking further through the documentation, I found that I should be able to put a line in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. Since the installation so far was actually bootable

Re: More help with find

2005-11-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 01:40:12PM -0800, Jeffrey Ellis wrote: snip What I really need is an expression which will ls all files found which have a mod. date/time of more than a certain number of days from today, but that are *not* in the Volumes directory, i.e., only those results which exist

Re: Installing wine on 6.0 RC

2005-11-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:11:52AM +1100, paul thodiyil wrote: I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am having great trouble installing WINE and indeed other packages on my AMD64 desktop running FreeBSD ver 6.0. I had added this package during the installation process.

Re: MAKEDEV FreeBSD 5.x or higher.....

2005-11-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:28:56PM +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dears,FreeBSD community removed MAKEDEV script in FreeBSD 5.x or later. I have refered to online handbook,But it explains everything with MAKEDEV script. Please introduction a replacement of MAKEDEV. 5.x and later don't

Re: running subversion as non-root

2005-11-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:40:47PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-11-01 08:32, Cerion Armour-Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:25:57 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote If you used the standard Ports stuff to install these and they have these broken permissions, it may

Re: WiFi Nintendo-DS and FreeBSD

2005-11-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:48:57PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: In november my DS goes WiFi (in Holland). Naturaly I want to play games that support this feature. (MarioKart-DS i.e.) at home ;-) The FreeBSD related question is: My main server runs 4.11-stable, some other machines run 5.4

Re: user limits

2005-11-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:24:19PM -0500, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... i was reading the login.conf man to figure out a way to limit user from a class to only certain directories. apparently that isn't possible there. there is a path, but thats $PATH for the particular user... not

Re: user limits

2005-11-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:55:48PM -0500, kalin mintchev wrote: chmod 750 directory/ thanks... i can't do that to /etc or /usr.. No you can't. But those directories cannot be written to by normal users. For finer-graines access control, you can try Mandatory Access Control, see

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

2005-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 10:28:35AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, Is there anywhere on the FreeBSD.org site that has any (even if semi-official) procedure for upgrading a FreeBSD-5Stable machine (i386) to 6.0? Chapter 20 of the Handbook details how to update your system with cvsup

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

2005-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:44:24AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello Roland, Thanks for the response. On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 10:28:35AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, Is there anywhere on the FreeBSD.org site that has any

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

2005-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 05:55:09PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: Okay.., I took the view that following the Handbook was the way to go, changing *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 to *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6. All went fine, that is, I was able to cvsup sources to upgrade a

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

2005-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 08:23:20PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: There were some messages about this on the mailing lists recently. Apparently some options and devices were moved into DEFAULTS (which is combined with the chosen kernel configuration by config(8).), so that people wouldn't

Re: HP 1315

2005-10-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:07:41PM -0600, Slavik wrote: Hi! Help me please.I have HP 1315 All-in-one.How can I set it in FreeBSD(6.0RC). You'll find a driver at http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/. It was written for Linux, but might work in FreeBSD, because the printer drivers usually reside in

Re: increasing mount size

2005-10-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:28:12PM +0100, eoghan wrote: Hello My /var mount has no more space left. I was wondering if there is some way to increase the size of it without loosing anything? That depends. If you have enough free space left on your harddrive, you could make a new slice, copy

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 32bit to 64bit

2005-10-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:24:43PM -0700, Warren Liddell wrote: As per topic ... is it possible to upgrade from the 32 bit version of FreeBSD to the 64 bit version or is it better to do a new installation ? If upgrade can be done .. any URL/Links to a guide on how to do it ? This has been

Re: problems with cd/dvd-device

2005-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:19:04PM +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote: On 10/25/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, 25 October 2005 at 14:04:25 +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote: I know, I know. I ask a lot of questions right now, but it's just because I've waited until it's

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:09:05PM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Without knowing which program produces the fault,

Re: Fwd: problems with cd/dvd-device

2005-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:52:08PM +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote: From: Linnea Forslund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 25, 2005 3:51 PM Subject: Re: problems with cd/dvd-device To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/25/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, 25

Re: problems with cd/dvd-device

2005-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:48:59PM +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote: snip Check that CD devices are actually there, with ls /dev/*cd*. On my system this returns: /dev/cd0 /dev/cd1 but that's because I use SCSI emulation. A system with a GENERIC kernel would probably show /dev/acd0. A whole

Re: i get stuck installing kernel

2005-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:11:22AM -0700, Micah wrote: snip pkg_add cvsup-16.1h_2.tbz man/man1/cvpasswd.1.gz: Can't open 'man/man1/cvpasswd.1.gz': File exists man/man1/cvsup.1.gz: Can't open 'man/man1/cvsup.1.gz': File exists man/man8/cvsupd.8.gz: Can't open 'man/man8/cvsupd.8.gz': File

Re: qemu

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 02:28:50PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: I discouvered QEMU today and I think it is an amazing program. Indeed. Very usefull to check out other OS on your FreeBSD box. Just to be sure and on the safe site: Will the command qemu -hda win98se.img -boot d -user-net do

Re: How do I name my network interface?

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:30:35PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! I have realized that my new motherboard has a built-in network interface, and I'd like to use it as well as the PCI based one I have. But, what do I call it when I plumb it with ifconfig? The PCI card I have is

Re: promail error message

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:13:52PM -0400, stan wrote: I'm trying to implement a new users .procmailrc file, and I'm getting this: Suspicious rcfile /home/sff/.procmailrc in /var/mail/log Here's the .prcmailrc file snip @ will simply be /dev/null'd '@' should be '#', I think. Roland

Re: How do I name my network interface?

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 09:36:38PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Using dmesg |grep 'Ethernet address'|sort|uniq gives a list of network interfaces. It unfortunately just shows my rl0 device. Then it seems that the other device is not supported my the FreeBSD kernel, or it could be disabled in

Re: procmail/formail syntax question

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:09:51PM -0400, stan wrote: I'm trying to get procmail to rewrite the TO: header. I've tried something like: TO=`formail -xTo:` I think this command is expanded only once, and gives an empty string because you didn't give formail any input. # is moved to viruses.

Re: How do I name my network interface?

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:00:55PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Having done that I conclude it is a Realtek 8201BL chip. Wouldn't there be another rl interface, then? The re nor the rl driver seem to support the 8201BL. What does 'pciconf -lv' say? Quite a lot. The parts that looks

Re: How do I name my network interface?

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:52:39PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: The none only means it's not bound to a driver. You might try the vr(4) driver, although the 6102 is not mentioned in vr(4). Ok, then none makes more sense. It read about the vr driver and it worked! How did you know the vr(4)

Re: Firewall or not ...

2005-09-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:05:36PM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on my Dell Inspiron 8200 using WiFi to access the Internet. My question is what are the pros and cons of running a firewall on my client, e.g. is it really necessary. A pro would be that a firewall

Re: HP Deskjet 720c won't print ...

2005-09-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 10:18:51AM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: I've been trying to get my hp deskjet 720c to print but nothing happens. I've followed step-by-step the instructions in the handbook, but when I run 'lptest /dev/lpt0' nothing happens. The handbook assumes that printers can print

Re: osx-fbsd-winxp

2005-09-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:36:14PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: What is the best way to let the winxp machine communicate with the mac/osx? And what about the fbsd machine. Is there a protocol I can use for all three of them? Depends on when you mean with communicate. For exchanging files,

Re: Setting a serial port

2005-09-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:08:11AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How could I set the parameters of connection of /dev/cuaa0 under a console? (I mean something similar to the Linux setserial command) stty -f /dev/cuaa0 speed 9600 -parenb cs8 -cstopb Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: IE in FreeBSD?

2005-09-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:55:25PM +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: On Wednesday 14 September 2005 23:46, Matt Kosht wrote: Does anybody successfully run Internet Explorer under Wine in FreeBSD? What should I do to get it run? Any suggestion will be appreciated. I would suggest instead of Wine

Re: Sound on Thinkpad and Networking questions

2005-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:59:34AM +0200, Lars Lindblad wrote: New problems with FreeBSD 5.4 on my IBM Thinkpad 600E: 1. I try to get the sound to work, but I never manage to make! I have tried to recompile the kernel, as described in the FreeBSD Handbook I chapter 8. First I found a

Re: Bochs always exited with BIOS panic.

2005-09-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:38:57AM +0800, Kenny wrote: The error message is as this: [BIOS] BIOS panic at rombios.c , line 1558 Try qemu instead of bochs. It is faster. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key:

Re: Accessing the Digital IO pins on a VIA EPIA-PD motherboard - Second question

2005-09-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 09:13:20PM +0800, Paul Hamilton wrote: Ok, so it doesn't look like anyone knows anything about how to access the DIO pins on this MB. Next question, How does one go about analysing the hardware to find out what the io and interrupt addresses might be? Looking at page

Re: Compatibility

2005-09-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:38:39PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was wondering if the FreeBSD Unix program that I have on cd's would It's an operating system, not a program. be compatible with a Compaq Presario 5430US. I came close to installing it till at the end when it gave a

Re: Fwd: Re: C program to write to the com port - RESOLVED

2005-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:53:49PM +0200, vittorio wrote: As a C++ absolute beginner I'm trying to compile your testssc.c file with g++ testssc.c -o testssc (under freebsd 5.4, gcc version 3.4.2) The C and C++ languages are different. Use cc or gcc instead of g++ to compile C code. Roland

Re: need more info

2005-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:56:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exactly is FreeBSD? See the freeBSD homepage: http://www.freebsd.org/ Can it be used by the computer beginner or do you need to be a very knowledgable computer user? Some knowledge definitely comes in handy. For an

Re: software updating for multiple machines

2005-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:39:59AM -0400, dave wrote: Hello, I've got four physical machines, all running 5.4, three of them have between 1 and 3 jails on them, and all have similar software installed. Updating each box and jail manually is becoming tedious manually, even with portupgrade

Re: keyboard bug?

2005-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:38:29PM +, Lucas Galete wrote: i have a nootebook toshiba satellite a20. i've installed the freebsd 5.4-release with the X and enliigghtenment.. buut sometimes when I press a key, this''s show twice onn screen. (just readind this email you'll seen what's

Re: configuring xterm

2005-09-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:28:32AM -0700, Rem Roberti wrote: I am a new user, have FreeBSD 5.4 up and running, and am very grateful to be rid of the blue screen of death. I'm going to have a bunch of questions, but first things first: 1) When I start X three xterm windows appear. Can I

Re: What is DRM?

2005-09-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:16:55PM +, T.J. Filipi wrote: Hi, I'm wading thru the section of kernel configuration can't find an explanation of the DRM options. Since I have an AGP Radeon see that it has a device listed, I figure it might be important for me to know. DRM is the

Re: [OT] Life expectancy of powered down hard drives....

2005-09-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:36:52PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: I read somewhere (sorry, cant remember where) that hard drives fail if not powered up every so often (not sure of time frames, but the discussion was about tapes still being better for backups than hard drives if planning

Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop

2005-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop? Is there anything in /var/log/messages? If not, try 'pciconf -lv', 'usbdevs' and 'camcontrol devlist -v' to see if it is on the PCI, USB

Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop

2005-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:24:33AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: On Monday 05 September 2005 11:04, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop

Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop

2005-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:26:22PM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: Is that it? I think so. According to the following page, http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/insp6000/p-proc.html#sd it is a Ricoh R5c576A chip. Looking at the Ricoh page for this chip,

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