Re: /bin/csh script in GELI partition crashes 6.3-STABLE

2008-02-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:59:41AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: % cat show #! /bin/csh set delay=3D2 set pixlist=3D(09 08 07 05 04 03 02 01) foreach i ($pixlist) (nice xv $i.jpg ) sleep $delay end =20 The delay is simply to ensure the windows get opened in the

Re: Dump and restore for Windows partitions

2008-01-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:18:53AM -0500, Martin Boulianne wrote: Hi, Maybe this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if I could use dump (and restore) on Windows NTFS partitions. Say I have a NTFS partition, ad0s1. Could I use: # dump -b 4 -f /backups/winxp.dump /dev/ad0s1 Dump is

Re: XDVI, LaTeX, teTeX dependencies

2008-01-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:20:05AM +0100, Holger Jorra wrote: Hi, I know that this is not only a FreeBSD issue, but I don't know where else I should ask. First, this issue has been brought up here in a different way 3 years ago, but there seems to be no solution, yet. [1] I use Latex

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:59:30AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Colin Brace wrote: I use udev rules to do this. See: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/make-removable-usb-hdd-mount-at-fixed-mount-point-511917/ That doesn't work on FreeBSD, does it? Udev's a

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: What I'd like to know is whether there's any way for me to ensure that the da0 disk always appears as da0. I don't want it that tomm I plug in another disk (or change the order of disks, though I'll be more careful with that)

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:16:50PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: It is possible, but not as daX. Use

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:23:58PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Hi, Is it possible to assign a specific device name to a USB disk? As in, say I have 2 USB disks -- currently they appear as da0 and da1. One of these (da0) contains the key for a GELI encrypted partition, and so I mount

Re: GELI key from a USB disk

2008-01-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:25:36PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: I thought this should be easy but its not working ... :( I have a USB disk /dev/da0. That's got a GELI key. I also have an external hard-disk with partitions /dev/da1s1[a-f]. All GELI encrypted. What I want is that while

Re: recovery FreeBSD

2008-01-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 11:07:16PM -0800, mahdieh Saeed wrote: Hi, I have a question about recovery. I removed one directory with rm -r .Is there any way to restore information that removed with rm -r. In short, everything that is part of the base system or ports can be restored with some

Re: Another question based on: Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working!

2008-01-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:53:41AM -0500, Gerard wrote: snip I belong to a state 'Officials Association' that deals with officiating High School sports. Their site is written in such a way that Flash with either Windows Media Player or QuickTime are required to properly view the site. So

Re: Realtek RTL8139 Family Fast Eithernet Adapter Plugin

2008-01-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 05:10:32PM -0500, Alden Pease wrote: Can you release a pack sometime in the future, like in version 8.0, with a Realtek RTL8139 Family Fast Eithernet Adapter plugin? This chip is already supported by the re(4) driver. See

Re: BACKUP: multiple DVDs, burning from pipe

2008-01-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:15:32AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all is there any way how to backup filesystem with ACL's and permissions directly from stdin to multiple DVDs? With a little work, yes. The only way to backup UFS filesystems with ACLs etc is dump. Make sure that you have

Re: healthd

2007-12-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 04:00:12PM +0100, Michael Grant wrote: I installed healthd hoping it would show me the cpu temperatures and fan speeds for my motherboard but it's reporting some crazy values like fan speeds of -48C and fan speeds of 13000 rpms. :-) [snip] SuperMicro provides a

Re: gui system information apps

2007-12-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:11:10AM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote: what are some good 'desktop-docked' system info apps (that run well in freebsd), that might be similar in function to grkellm? i saw many screenshots of beautiful apps for superkaramba, but was pretty disappointed that most of

Re: mutt??

2007-12-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:02:00AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I've been trtryinng to rebuild everything on tao to get my i810 graphics working. Somehow, mutt bbroke. It seems to break with something undefined in perl5.8. I don't think it is perl; mutt doesn't

Re: No audio whatever....

2007-12-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:06:10PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I realize this may have no easy answer, but suddenly, after a portupgrade -aP. I have no sound. catting /deev/snstat does tell me that my sound card is there. my volme is set to 100%. Where else shoulf I

Re: Memory leak with conky, anyone else?

2007-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:56:25PM -0700, Modulok wrote: I get the feeling Conky 1.4.8 (the sysutil), or one of the libs it links against, has a memory leak. I do not have any hard evidence yet (like a patch to fix it), but the memory consumption slowly climbs to what appears to be excessive.

Re: FreeBSD Wacom driver

2007-12-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 11:00:11PM +0100, Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: Hi, Having just aquired a usb wacom tablet and discovering the linuxwacom project, I was wondering why only serial tablets are supported on FBSD?? Doesn't it work with uhid(4)? Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: Version 5.4

2007-12-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 02:21:50PM -0600, Ham, Jason B. [C] wrote: I have a question as to whether there is support for the free bsd version 5.4. Please advise. Officially, 5.4 isn't supported by the FreeBSD project anymore. See http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html#freeze Having said

Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 03:43:14PM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have both vista and freebsd 8-current installed on the same drive and also have allocated the rest of the disk to be a fat32 partition. I know I should put any data I want to be passed between the two on the fat32 partition.

Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:19:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2. Share the same Desktop folder (I think if #1 is solved this is automatic) Maybe, but the Desktop folder would be pretty much useless for FreeBSD. Maybe there is an X

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:57:18PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I tried youtube-dl but every url I tried gave youtube-dl: No match. eg %youtube-dl http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA youtube-dl: No match. You have to quote the argument to youtube-dl, otherwise the shell will mess it

Re: PF firewall

2007-12-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 06:20:37AM -0600, ajtiM wrote: Hi! I am a new FreeBSD 7.0 beta3 user and I have standalone computer connected to the internet (cable). I use both, console and KDE desktop. I tried to setup PF firewall for the standalone computer but I have a problem with internal

Re: how to compile and install a new driver

2007-11-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:48:28PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: Hi, I found this thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-August/027445.html to a driver I need for my system. (1) The file extension (http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/ucp-0.01.diff.gz) is .diff, not .c, so

Re: how to compile and install a new driver

2007-11-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:28:53PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: The 'make kernel' command will install the module automagically. On the next boot, you should be able to load the ucp driver module with kldload(8). So is the kernel the collection of all .ko modules then? A lot (but not

Re: HP Deskjet 9800 with hpijs driver

2007-11-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:05:50AM -0800, Erin McNew wrote: Ok. Let's see what other information I can provide. I was printing from the gimp. I looked at the printer setup, and it said that it was using lpr. As for the PCL, the first line was pretty short, and the second line did start

Re: Personalised patches in ports

2007-11-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:06:45AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Not if you 'chflags schg,sunlnk' it. If you add another file into a ports' files directory that cvsup knows nothing about, then cvsup will refuse to touch it. No need for chflags in that case. If you need to make local

Re: Am I back? Re: kernel fault trying to add atapicam...

2007-11-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:35:46PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Folks (to the whole list, but esp'ly Messes Smith [NL AU], I'll believe that my ISDN link is working when/if I see this echoed from the -questions list. I was busy rebuilding my 6.2 GENERIC kernel after

Re: Help with a new port?

2007-11-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:01:36PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote: I must confess I haven't. I'll look into it and see what comes up. Currently trying to figure out how to get ports upgraded in a sane fashion as well, as I've noticed some of the packages are quite behind in comparison to

Re: Having problems burning a DVD

2007-11-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 09:42:59AM +0100, Harry Matthiesen Jensen wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:45:33PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I think you are probably missing permxpt00666 permpass0 0666 Which file are these to be set in? # Misc other devices

Re: Personalised patches in ports

2007-11-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:52:31AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, How can I incorporate my patch into the portupgrade system, so that an upgrade of Xpdf will apply my patch? If I download the bzip file, apply the patch, re-bzip the sources, and then try to force an upgrade, the

Re: Fwd: Upgrading X11 port

2007-11-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:22:36PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: Hi With regards to the following post, I just wanted to clarify this. I am going to do this now. Get the ports tree, using portsnap fetch and portsnap extract and then portsnap update Then, when I install xorg,

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:49:52PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I did have a vfs. entry in the wong file; that has seemed to make a big difference. On my Ubuntu server most of these utilities Just-Work. I would like to burn CD's and maybe a DvD or two. But k3b seems

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:17:36PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: My usual invocation for cdrecord for data disks is: cdrecord -v -eject -dao speed=8 driveropts=burnfree dev=1,1,0 -pad \ -data file.iso You'll have to adjust the dev part by looking at the output of 'cdrecord -scanbus'.

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:07:32PM +, Chris wrote: Interesting so I learnt 2 things here csup exists so no need to install cvsup and I should run 'make delete-old-libs' . Basically I have done the following. Well, you don't _have_ to (nobody is forcing you to do it). But if you don't, old

Re: snd_ich skipping playback

2007-11-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:50:05PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: I updated to RELENG_7 yesterday, but I'm noticing that the snd_ich driver quite often skips playback for a short period of time at some points. Especially when doing mysql queries. Anyone else having problems with snd_ich ?

Re: Basically: why such troubles with KDE audio?

2007-11-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:55:48AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, Long-short-short, at least two Gnome-type players work: sound-juicer and gnome-cd. But KsCD gives no audio. I am logged in as root while doing this initial testing, after Roland

Re: Basically: why such troubles with KDE audio?

2007-11-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:00:11PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Playing music usually* has nothing to do with mountpoints. Mountpoints are only needed when you want to use a data CD with a filesystem on it. Ah, thanks for the clarification. I might not want to get sloppy with

Re: arbitrary build can't find libs - right way to do this?

2007-11-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:34:29PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I'm trying to compile a non-port application for the first time ever. The associated library built and installed just fine - I can see them right in /usr/local/lib and usr/local/include/libnamefoo.h However, when I run ./configure

Re: Unexpected shutdown

2007-11-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:55:42AM +0100, n j wrote: Hello Randy, Roland, Gary, UPS drivers can shut the system down, but you seemed to have ruled that out? The UPS is present, but I never set up and configured anything (no snmp or any other agents) that would give the UPS the

Re: can any sound wzards help me set this right?

2007-11-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:04:20AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Saturday,, following the adviice of this group plus things I found of the web, I put together this list of mods to make to /boot/loader.con, /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/devfs.conf Still, after

Re: Unexpected shutdown

2007-11-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:12:34PM +0100, n j wrote: I know there are many possibilities out there, but I am pondering this for the whole day and ruled out everything that came to mind. So, any other ideas - even humorous - are welcome. Since it was a regular shutdown as opposed to a panic,

Re: Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:34:26PM -0600, J. Porter Clark wrote: Is there any way to keep certain files out of the reach of mergemaster? I understand the need for carefully merging the old and the new, but I really shouldn't ever have to for files like these: /etc/aliases /etc/hosts

Re: What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?

2007-11-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 02:13:19PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Okay, I've set vfs.usermount=1, but both totem and kmplayer refuse to play my audio-CD. You don't mount audio CDs. They don't carry a cd9660 filesystem. Try something like this with a CD in the drive; mplayer

Re: 7.0 install

2007-11-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 11:04:52AM -0600, Chad Albert wrote: I have downloaded the 7.0 beta 2 ISO file for i386. I am trying to install it on an ASUS G1S laptop. 6.2 works very nicely all except support for the WIFI card (Intel 4965AGN). When I insert the Install CD and start going

Re: cups-base problem

2007-11-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:18:19AM +0100, zbigniew szalbot wrote: Hello, Aryeh M. Friedman pisze: I am not sure I understand the message about remote execution of arbitrary code. That is just saying that if the security issue is a problem for you don't upgrade (i.e. go ahead if you don't

Re: nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd

2007-11-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:45:30PM -0600, John Smith wrote: I'd expected a more level headed reply from this FreeBSD list. How is a newbie supposed to know the differenced Both nanobsd and picobsd have manual pages. Try 'man nanobsd' and 'man picobsd'. Picobsd has been superseded by nanobsd,

Re: PPD files vs printer drivers also LPD vs LPRng vs CUPS

2007-11-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:39:29PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I am trying to understand little bit better Unix printing. I am terribly confused about the real meaning of PPD files and printer drivers. According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_Printer_Description

Re: cups-base problem

2007-11-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:41:43PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Reko Turja wrote: Dear all, Today I saw a security notice: ..snip... cat distinfo MD5 (cups-1.3.3-source.tar.bz2) = d4911e68b6979d16bc7a55f68d16cc53 SHA256 (cups-1.3.3-source.tar.bz2) =

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:58:39AM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote: I then proceeded to the mergebase.sh script, ran that and when I was satisfied that all was done as expected, I rebooted my machine. Well, that's when X failed to start. So, how would I go about correcting this problem? Look at

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:48:47PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: Concerning this, I've cvsuping to 6-CURRENT on a dual-core desktop. The system is running well, but I'd really like to move up to 7. Can it be done through cvsup from 6.2-STABLE to 7-CURRENT or is it wiser to install from scratch?

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:27:58PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: a. Make backups b. Read /usr/src/UPDATING 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). 2. `make buildworld' 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC).

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:32:22PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: You don't need to delete all the ports in one go and then reinstall them in another: running 'portupgrade -fa' will do the job. Port upgrade tools are not guaranteed to work perfectly in this situation. I tried doing an update

Re: Determine FreeBSD version of binary

2007-11-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:16:38PM +0100, John Smith wrote: On Nov 8, 2007 6:59 PM, Yuri Pankov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May be not entirely correct, but close: ldd binary | grep libc.so Yes, that helps somewhat. At least I now know that it's FreeBSD 4.x. And before I again forget

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:14:13PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: Be careful if you not using standard shell becauseif you using a shell come from ports Root should _never_ use a shell from ports. You can use the 'toor' account for that. 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party

Re: make buildworld ....gcc bug

2007-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:01:21PM +0200, tethys ocean wrote: When I am rebuilding world FreeBSD 6.2 I have take error that is shown below. What can I do!? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src]# make buildworld In function `yylex':

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:16:46PM +, James wrote: rsync is too high-level, and may not do exactly the right thing with links or sparse files or who knows what. rsync -cav takes cares of symlinks and all that just right. It's a beautiful thing. Checksumming, too. Ah, bliss. It

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:40:36PM -0800, FX Charpentier wrote: Roland, The mention of dump '-L' in your email below has caught my attention. Pardon my ignorance, but what is the '-L' option? I looked it up in the man pages but wasn't able to find any mention of it. Can you point me in

Re: Which version with a Xeon X3210

2007-11-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:31:33AM +, Chris Hastie wrote: I've just ordered a new server based on the Intel Xeon X3210. This is a quad core processor supporting the Intel 64 (formerly known as Intel® EM64T, according to the flyer) instruction set. I plan to install FreeBSD 6.2 on it, but

Re: fsck gave up on me!

2007-11-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 07:42:59AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using FreeBSD 6.2 for a couple of months now with no major snags. Until now. I did a portupgrade this morning and afterwards, when I logged in as a user into Gnome, my

Re: can you help script about rename directory

2007-11-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 02:20:13AM +0800, adrian kok wrote: Hi all how can I have script to rename the following directory pattern from from dir-192.168.30.0 dir-192.168.30.144 dir-192.168.30.184 To: dir-10.0.30.0 dir-10.0.30.144 dir-10.0.30.184 thank you

Re: Set perms on attach of USB umass disk

2007-11-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:53:00AM -0700, Darren Spruell wrote: I've been trying (and failing) to figure out how to adjust ownership or permissions of a USB memory stick on device attach. [snip] I've tried altering devfs.conf but this appears to only work for devices that are attached at

Re: ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64

2007-10-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:27:32AM +, Stephen Allen wrote: Roland Smith wrote: Than they should run i386. You only _need_ (as opposed to nice to play with :-) amd64 if you run out of address space on a typical workload. What if you have more than 3Gb of RAM to play with... would you have

Re: Core dump

2007-10-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:32:10PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: A program that I use has started giving me this error message when I try to load it: Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) This means that the program has either tried to read from a part of the memory that it isn't allowed to

Re: LaTeX oder teTeX

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:46:20AM +0100, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed TeXLive 2007 to use /usr/local/texlive/2007 as its prefix and data directory, and that works fine. Everything is contained within that tree. It does not put things

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 08:50:40PM +, Stephen Allen wrote: It's been drawn to my attention not to use bash from the ports collection, because if one of it's dependencies (gettext or libiconv) fails or is updated significantly, it could break, and prevent login. The suggested solution

Re: ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:39:24AM +0200, David Naylor wrote: Hi, I have seen that recently on the mailing list there has been a discussion on running i386 FreeBSD binaries under an amd64 system. As far as I have been able to read there does not appear to be anyway of achieving this except

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:22:24PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: I've decided to try to build up my 1st FreeBSD server. Reading the Handbook is mostly helpful, but I' getting hit with a couple of problems I can't figure out. I was looking for a beginner's list. I think this is the closest to it.

Re: LaTeX oder teTeX

2007-10-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:21:49PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I gave up after encountering problems with older fonts in ported version of teTeX and decided that it is better to wait for guys to port TeXLive than to waist the time trying to resolve dependency issues teTeX vs powerdot.

Re: slight emergency here...

2007-10-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair the damage. Oops. If fsck can't fix it, that's not good. Have you tried

Re: LaTeX oder teTeX

2007-10-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:51:25PM +, Christian Walther wrote: a few years ago I got a good introduction to TeX, but for some reason stopped using it. Now I want to pick up where I left. I found LaTeX and teTeX in ports, so I wonder what the best tex distribution is. According to the

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05:34:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I have used (and still do) both flavors of the above and I have to tell y, updating the installed apps is as easy as apt-get update ot yum update/upgrade. . . . except when they break something. It's a lot easier to fix broken

Re: USB-Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:26:20AM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: Does the onboard serial port work via USB? How odd! On my standard PC, the serial ports are driven by the sio driver, and have /dev/cuad* and /dev/ttyd* devices, noc cuaU. No, that one's a standard serial port, driven by sio

Re: USB-Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:23:48PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: On 2007-10-24 17:15, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:26:20AM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: Does the onboard serial port work via USB? How odd! On my standard PC, the serial ports are driven by the sio driver

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:25:51PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: sounds reasonable. unfortunetly, 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq' doesn't seem to work on my system. heh, it'd probably work if I upgrade to 7.0 Apparently I'm an idiot. the sysctl command does work. when the system is mostly idle, It

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:25:11PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: What does 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' report? It should list the available CPU frequencies. I get: dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 397/-1 198/-1 Is this something I should be reporting to stable? It's not explicitly mentioned in

Re: Per-port options in make.conf?

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:32:39PM +0100, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: Is there any way to specify options in make.conf on a per-port basis? For example, if I want Vim built without X11, I can specify the WITHOUT_X11 flag, but putting that in make.conf will affect every port. Use .if and

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
Donovan R. Palmer wrote: I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to make the shift from Linux? Is there anything in

Re: Q: general LaTeX mailing list

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:43:28PM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Hi there, Who knows a good general LaTeX mailing list? Ah yes, here is also good mailing list for the question. However, I want to give specific and professional advice about LaTeX. Unfortunately, Google disappointed my desire

Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:01:02AM +0200, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a way to stream live video on FreeBSD (streamingserver and encoder or either). I have previously used Windows Media Server and Encoder quite a lot, but I try to run as much as possible on

Re: USB-Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:06:08PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: I'd expect some device to show up in /dev, cuad1, ucom0, something like that, but I get nothing. (cuad0 is taken by the onboard serial port, which, alas, isn't wired to the outside of the case). Looking at ucom(4): FILES

Re: Buying new sound card

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:29:34PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 21 October 2007, Roberth Sjonøy wrote: Anyone who can confirm that a Creative SB Audigy SE PCI works with FreeBSD? It doesn't work, unless you install the oss driver from

Re: USB-Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:17:01PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: On Tuesday 23 October 2007 19:54:44 Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:06:08PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: I'd expect some device to show up in /dev, cuad1, ucom0, something like that, but I get nothing. (cuad0

Re: Hello.. about motherboard MSI P4M900M2-L with chip VT8237A

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:39:16AM +0200, Johan Andersson wrote: Hello.. Anyone know if motherboard MSI P4M900M2-L with the chip VT8237A works with FreeBSD 6.2 amd64? Do all the stuff works like p-ata/s-ata controller and network card work? im going to build a small server with that

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:21:04AM -0500, W. D. wrote: Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. Remote PuTTY: Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. At computer terminal: PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX Remote root access is

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:02:29PM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64) machine without rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so which one... I know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix machine) Have you tried qemu? You

Re: GELI and shutdown

2007-10-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 02:45:06PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: A quick question: Is it necessary or even advisable to unmount and/or detach GELI partitions prior to performing a halt or shutdown? This will be done automatically. Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: what's happening with xorg?

2007-10-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:46:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: You could try playing with the gamma value of the monitor. When X is running you can use xgamma to adjust the gamma setting. You can also set this with the Gamma entry in the Monitor section of xorg.conf. Or should I ask

Re: FreeBSD support for Jetway J7F4

2007-10-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:14:29PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I have searched around to verify that everything works fine for this motherboard with integrated CPU: Jetway J7F4. I understand it has a CN700 north bridge and a VT8237R or VT8237RP south bridge, and Realtek RLT8110SC

Re: what's happening with xorg?

2007-10-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:36:09AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: The default setting for gamma is 1. Try e.g. 2. See also xorg.conf(5). I'll try your xgamma -gamma 2 suggestion, below. Thanks for the data-point. I read [[ skimmed-thru ]] xorg.conf. This is another man page

Re: cdrao broken on amd64?

2007-10-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:03:32PM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: c++ -DDRIVER_TABLE_FILE=\/usr/local/share/cdrdao/drivers\ -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=nocona -o cdrdao main.o ./libdao.a ../paranoia/libcdda_paranoia.a ../trackdb/libtrackdb.a -L../scsilib/export -lscg -lschily

Re: how to make a patch

2007-10-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:10:57PM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I found and fixed a bug in one of the ports how do I make a patch file (I only changed one line in one file) and who do I send it to? First, you must have saved a copy of the original file before you changed it; cp file

Re: what's happening with xorg?

2007-10-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:47:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm in the middle of a portupgrade -aP, and saw that the newest mga driver is installed. So I did another X -configure, moved the file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and carefully tried out the new

Re: Logitech G15

2007-10-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 11:16:31AM +0200, Bruce Alcock wrote: Hi I own a Logitech G15 keyboard and although the standard keys work, none of the multimedia or 'G' keys do. I've googled a lot on the matter and although there is a linux kernel driver, nothing exists for FreeBSD. I'm using

Re: Logitech G15

2007-10-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 08:11:30PM +0200, Bruce Alcock wrote: It doesn't generate keysyms...hence the problem. Thanks, should've mentioned that. Anyone got any ideas how to map keys that don't generate keysyms? Or how to make them make keysyms rather? Does they generate KeyPress and

Re: Logitech G15

2007-10-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 09:56:11PM +0200, Bruce Alcock wrote: No, it does absolutely nothing. I've mapped keysyms for a multimedia keyboard with xmodmap before, so I know what I'm doing there. There's a linux driver program ( http://g15tools.sourceforge.net/) which allows you to use

Re: batch conversion of TeX

2007-10-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:44:44AM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Those who have followed my openoffice to TeX conversion know I am brand new to TeX and want to know how to do the following conversions (hopefully via some non-interactive process [eg. Make files]): TeX--plain text detex

Re: Bind configuration in FreeBSD

2007-10-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:29:39PM +0500, Narek Gharibyan wrote: Hi, Please don't top-post. I as know default version (without port upgrading) is Bind 9.3.3 in Freebsd 6.2. You can see the version, executing named -v command. Do a ps -ax | grep named snip -Original Message-

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all, I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. You don't need to encrypt the whole harddisk. You can encrypt separate slices. There is no need to

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:34:16PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Put all the data that really needs to be encrypted on a separate slice, and encrypt that. Leave the rest unencrypted, especially /boot. As a rule of thumb; don't bother encrypting anything that you can just download from the

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