What's the current status of support (in the pcm driver?) for
the Via VT8233a Southbridge sound?
I just looked at some postings about this in Google, and it doesn't
look very encouraging.
(That's kind-of a bummer, cuz I just bought this shiny new Soyo KT333
motherboard, and I hate to have to go
In message 000a01c2aa56$0d998730$7a143bd4@runkelej, you wrote:
Copying over the files (assuming installed under /usr/src)
/usr/src/sys/dev/sound/pci/ich.h
/usr/src/sys/dev/sound/pci/ich.c
with the equivalents from -stable should allow audio to work on this =
board.
Probably the
Two questions:
First, are UNIX domain sockets in any sense ``more efficient'' than
INET (IPv4) sockets?
Second, does there exist any freely available utility tool that would
allow one to connect up a UNIX domain socket to an INET domain socket,
e.g. so that the functionality of a program that
Why does the program below produce radically different results when
linked either (a) with just the libc on FreeBSD 4.7 or else (b) with
the BIND library (libbind.a) from the ISC 8.x.x BIND release, and then
with libc?
Is FreeBSD's gethostbyaddr(3) mishandling the classless in-addr.arpa
Greetings,
I have to confess massive ignorance about sound cards. I haven't used
these things much in the past, if at all.
Anyway, I just installed 4.7-RELEASE on a new system that's got an
ancient and crusty ISA Sound Blaster 16 PnP card (that I bought
second-hand) installed in it.
I also
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Ok, so question: What's the simplest and easiest way to simply check
to see if a given sound card is working or not?
I gather that it is _not_ as simple as just cat'ing some .mp3 file to
one of the /dev/dsp* device files
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote:
I'm not totally sure about this, but I think that you can dump audio
file in the 'au' format directly to devices. A test au format file can
be found on http://www.cti.ecp.fr/documents/a_sound.au (This was linked
to from
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
OK, I'm willing to give that a try, but what device should I can the .au
file to? Do I cat to /dev/dsp0 ?
Yes, give it a try.
I tried it, and nothing happened. No sound came out.
I cat'd the file to /dev/dsp0
I have an x86 system here that contains an 18GB SCSI drive and also
a 20GB IDE drive.
The 18GB SCSI drive contains a complete FreeBSD system that has been
installed and then tailored to my personal preferences. It also
contains a lot of my personal working files.
The SCSI drive contains only
Very strange.
I built this exact same port (print/ghostscript-gnu) on a different
4.7-RELEASE system just about a week ago and I had no problems. Now
however, there seems to be a problem with the checksum on:
ghostscript/eplaser-3.0.4-651.tgz
Anybody know what gives here?
Should I
Assume that I want to write a program that uses ``real'' threads,
i.e. independently schedulable ones.
First question: Are there any good tutorials around for how to do
this under FreeBSD? (I've never actually done this before.)
I gather that the Right Thing To Do is to compile and install
The man page for msgrcv(3) indicates that any type of message on the
specified message queue may be received by setting the `mtype' field
of the following value/result structure to zero before issuing the
call to msgrcv(3):
long mtype;/* message type */
char mtext[1]; /*
I know that I'm very late to the party, but I just recently bought and
installed my first ever DVD burner.
The burner is installed on a system that I have set up to dual boot
to either FreeBSD 5.2.1 (yea, I know, that's ancient) or else to
Windoze ME.
So anyway, yesterday I followed all of the
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote:
and I also tried:
mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt
which yielded the error:
cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error
OK, so what am I doing wrong?
[...]
Maybe /var/log/messages gives you a hint what's happening.
Maybe, but I can't make
Greetings friends,
I wonder if someone would be kind enough to enlighten me about the
semantics of the flock(2) function. I have RTFM'd, and I am sad to
say that I am still rather mystified that flock() doesn't seem to
do what it is documented as doing. (I am testing it on 4.10-RELEASE,
by the
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote:
From the flock manpage:
...file descriptors duplicated through dup(2) or fork(2) do not result
in multiple instances of a lock, but rather multiple references to the
same lock.
You're basically trying to place a lock you already hold, making the
I've been bringing up a new amd64 box with 8.2-RELEASE. So far I've managed
to get everything installed OK, including a boatload of freshly-built ports.
I've even gotten flash10 working with firefox... well...
Unfortunately, this is only MOSTLY working. The video works great, but for
audio all
In message 20111022125209.9ba97a1f.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:29:25 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
The really strange thing is that after I followed all the directions here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/sound-setup.html
This isn't really a question. It's more of a semi-rant, combined with some
information that I wanted to put on the record (so that it can be googled)
because it may benefit some folks, other than just me.
I'm impatient by nature, and I don't like CUPS. (I would say that I hate
it, but I don't
In message 20111027143609.60335.qm...@joyce.lan, you wrote:
I'm not a huge fan of CUPS, but at this point it's the best of a bad
lot. I find the queueing useful, since I often print documents long
enough that I don't want to wait.
I don't quite understand the issue you are raising john.
Even
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1110270834540.94...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
...
The only thing that worries me about my rather ad-hoc way of setting up
a personal printer (as describe above) is that I sort of wonder what
will happen if I ever try to print something
I knew that this was a problem for older versions of the adobe acrobat
reader (acroread) but I really thought that SOMBODY would have fixed this
by now, as it has been a longstanding problem.
But alas, acroread9-9.4.2 as installed from the ports tree on a reasonably
up-to-date 8.2-RELEASE/amd64
Looking at the man page for mkisofs I see the following:
-r ... If any of the special mode bits are set,
clear them, because file locks are not useful on a read-only
file system, ...
Just curious: What the bleep have file mode
With a pre-recorded CD in the drive, the following works fine for me when
I'm root:
cdda2wav -D 0,0,0 -B
My question is: What do I need to do in order to make this work also
when executed from a non-root account?
Here's what I get when I try to do the above from a non-root account:
I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation webcams
using Firefox on FreeBSD and so far it simply ain't workin'. Somebody
please tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Yes, I already installed the mozilla-mplayer port.
Here's where you can get at the webcams:
In message 20111207014948.9fb0cb4b.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:02:24 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation webcams
using Firefox on FreeBSD and so far it simply ain't workin'. Somebody
In message CAPYw7P7g=FZDOXc2PGqMHm=C2q5KxgxrvO3=zeirntkzwf9...@mail.gmail.com
, Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/7/11, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:02:24 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation
In message 4edf4d7a.ac3xg02r+czwn8xy%per...@pluto.rain.com, you wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote:
I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation
webcams using Firefox on FreeBSD and so far it simply ain't workin'.
...
http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist3
In message 4ee03877.643serzmrkxlotg4%per...@pluto.rain.com, you wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote:
At least this gives me confidence that it can be done. I am still
somewhat at a loss to know exactly _how_ it can be done however.
For me, it just works. I installed 8.1
It would appear that the device node /dev/ulpt0 gets (re-)created every
time I plug my USB printer back in.
Could somebody please kindly tell me what the exact mechanism is that
causes this device node to be (re-)created upon such events?
I am rather hoping that whatever that mechanism is, that
In message 20120222005734.1353.qm...@joyce.lan, John Levine wrote:
Regarding port 9100, my local /etc/services file says:
jetdirect 9100/tcp #HP JetDirect card
That's typically known as socket. Works great with CUPS.
As Robert Bonomi was kind enough to relate to me, this is the
In message 4f44e576.5000...@ifdnrg.com,
Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote:
On 21/02/2012 22:33, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Port 25 is apparently implementing _something_ that sort-of vaguely acts
like an SMTP server. However it appears to me that it only accepts e-mail
for one very
In message 20120420004050.9b3f1a3a.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:25:48 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
The man page for the psm driver says:
... The current resolution can be changed at runtime.
Unfortunately, it fails to mention
I've been lucky. Over about the past 20 years I've never had a hard
disk go bad on me. (Knock on wood.) Of course I _do_ only buy the
better quality ones (with the 5 year warranties), and I'm sure that
has helped. Still, one never knows, and it is best to be prepared.
Primarily however, I am
In message 4fd38b9a.4010...@qeng-ho.org,
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
There's a BFI (brute force and ignorance) way of doing it in the base
system - dd. Provided your system disk is quiescent (ideally when
running from a live CD or all partitions mounted read-only, otherwise
pray
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1206092039260.71...@wonkity.com, you wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Also, I don't like backups taking longer than absolutely necessary, and
this is why I am specifically _not_ attracted to either the dd solution
or to dump/restore, because
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1206100543280.75...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
1) In your example under the heading Copying Filesystems, the second
shell command line shown is:
dump -C16 -b64 -0uanL -h0 -f - /usr | (cd
Warren? Just a couple more quick questions. You recommend:
dump -C16 -b64 -0uanL -h0 -f - /usr | (cd /mnt restore -ruf -)
I'm real curious about you suggestions for the -C and -b values.
I have what amounts to a personal workstation. Yea, OK, it is running
mail, web, and FTP servers
I have a sizable (200GB) external USB 2.0 interface hard drive. (Actually,
it's a plain old PATA drive in one of those enclosures that allows it
to speak USB 2.0.)
So anyway, to make this external drive work with things other than just my
FreeBSD system, the drive has been formatted so that it
In message CA+tpaK0H=L8pcSkOxxAekfy2rQV49-sWof0FDPsutb8=04b...@mail.gmail.com
, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette
r...@tristatelogic.comwrote:
Is there any such a tool (as fsck for FAT32) available for freeBSD? If so,
where
In message 5002b996.2000...@cran.org.uk,
Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
On 15/07/2012 09:56, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
but, in spite of some fanatics here my get worried, i do recommend use
windoze scandisk.
I'd forgotten about scandisk - for modern Windows (XP and newer) you'll
want to
The subject line says it all... well... pretty much.
I have Sleepycat/Oracle DB 4.something installed, and I really
would like to rebuild and reinstall the standard DB_File package
so as to get it to use the 4.something version of DB, rather than
the 1.85 version that's in my libc.a. But I
I need to get sources for the Linux version of certain programs that
reside in a package called bsdutils. I have built and installed
the apt-get program and now I'm just trying to use it, and things
are going very badly indeed.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here? The errors I am
In message 20101107140353.5...@unknown, you wrote:
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 08:52:00 -0500
Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote:
I am going to take a stab in the dark here and suggest that some sort
of db needs to be built for apt ... clues in the part /var/db..
(man apt-get?)
apt-get
In message 20101107155831.67847.qm...@joyce.lan,
John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote:
In article 24360.1289127...@tristatelogic.com you write:
I need to get sources for the Linux version of certain programs that
reside in a package called bsdutils.
So get them, already. No need to screw around
Not long ago, I took a working FreeBSD 5.x system on my local network,
(whose name is shiny) wiped the disk clean, and then installed from
scratch FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. I then configured it as best as I could
to get it to behave as much as possible like the old/prior 5.x system.
Most suff mostly
This is drivin' me nuts. I hope somebody can pass me a clue.
I have an older system that I've been running 6.1-RELEASE on for a
long long time now. I want to upgrade it to run 7.0-RELEASE.
(CPU = AMD Athlon XP 2000, Motherboard = ASUS A7N266-VM/AA.)
OK, so I install a new hard drive (known
No, it's not the cable. The cable works just fine, which is why I
_am_ able to make it all the way down until late in the Stage 3 boot,
*and* also why I _acn_m get all of the way down to the install menu
(while using the same drive cable) when I boot from an old 6.1-RELEASE
install disk.
I
Just a couple of questions about IPFW-related things:
1) Somewhere the other day I read a recommendation... which looked rather
official to me that the time... that all fragments should be firwalled
out, e.g. thusly:
deny any to any in frag
Is that actually a Good Thing
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:15:32 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
om wrote:
Just a couple of questions about IPFW-related things:
1) Somewhere the other day I read a recommendation... which looked
rather
I recently got close to burning up my shiny new Athlon64 processor.
(Wire got tangled up in the heatsink fan. Thankfully, I caught it
in time, before the processor was fully cooked.) On and off, I was
watching the BIOS system hardware monitor screen at the time,
which is how I managed to catch
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote:
On Thursday 07 August 2008, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Problem is: documentation of healthd's output is almost non-existant.
OK, so when it prints those three temperature numbers, which one stands
for what? And if, as I surmize, the last (and highest
I've just been installing 7.2-RELEASE/amd64 on a fresh/wiped system
that I plan to use as my future main workstation.
Anyway, I've already noticed a couple of things that seem to be different
from prior release that I need to ask about, i.e.:
1) It appears that CNTL-ALT-DEL now causes a
Many thanks to those who responded regarding my two questions.
With regards to the CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE sequence and its ability
(or lack thereof) to cause an immediate shutdown of the X server...
well... I _did_ go and read the Handbook section that Manolis Kiagias
kindly posted a link to, and I
In one of my systems, I've got a Seagate SATA 500GB drive (ST3500320AS)
which is actually not very old... purchased 12/11/2008.
It's never given me any problems, but just a few minutes ago, while
compiling a small C program, I got a set of three irrecoverable
errors in quick succession...
In message 44my2n45zd@be-well.ilk.org,
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com writes:
Nov 15 15:24:17 coredump kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC
,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=256230591
In message 20091116180102.61682...@gmx.de, you wrote:
Am Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:19:29 -0800
schrieb Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com:
I _did_ go and read the Handbook section that Manolis Kiagias
kindly posted a link to, and I have now tried _both_ of the two
ways described
In message 20091116182358.ga95...@slackbox.xs4all.nl,
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:06:55PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
=20
In one of my systems, I've got a Seagate SATA 500GB drive (ST3500320AS)
which is actually not very old... purchased 12/11/2008
Where/how can I get more information about Open Issue #20090501 as
listed in Section 3 (Open Issues) in the 7.2 Eratta?
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/errata.html
This problem has been annoying me greatly, primarily because I wasn't
sure if it might be due to my own (faulty?) CD/DVD
Who should I be talking to if the BTX loader is crashing on my
specific hardware configuration, and what specific info do I
need to be gathering for him/her in order to have hope of getting
the problem rectified?
I'd pulled stuff out of the system in question until there's
practically nothing
In message he67nb$ad...@ger.gmane.org, you wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Who should I be talking to if the BTX loader is crashing on my
specific hardware configuration, and what specific info do I
need to be gathering for him/her in order to have hope of getting
the problem rectified
[[ To: Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com... please accept my apologies
that you can't e-mail me directly. I jsyt get too much spam from hotmail.com,
so it's blacklisted here. Nothing personal. ]]
In message 7872.1258759...@tristatelogic.com,
Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote:
In message 20091121015230.cf2c15dd.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.dewrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:48:34 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.c
om wrote:
But I have one question. The author sez to do this:
dd if=8.0-BETA1-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv
I just got a spam from some numbnuts spammer who said (in the spam), and I
quote:
Why would anyone still pay recruitment agency fees? Wouldn't you prefer to
RECRUIT AS MANY PEOPLE/strong per campaign for $499?
Your contact details were on
When I view man pages in a xterm window, some parts of them are coming
out a bit garbled.
I'm sure that there must be some recommended option or options for
xterm that will cause man pages to display properly. If someone would
tell me what those options are, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
I am impatient by nature.
Nowadays, whenever I use portinstall/portupgrade, I use the --batch
option, so that I don't have to sit around at the console, waiting
for and then accepting the default build options for a boatload of
depended-upon ports for whatever I am actually trying to install or
In message 20121007234043.cadf5863.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
A workaround (and not directly the answer to your question) is
to process the config dialogs before starting the build:
# make config-recursive
Once set, the options won't be requested on a second
In message 20121008012414.34fd6a65.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
...
# make config-recursive
...
This target (and several other useful ones) are listed
and explained in the manpage: man 7 ports. :-)
Hey! Thanks again. I didn't know about that man page either!
I have a laptop which has an HDMI output port.
I can get video out of that (with xbmc) just fine. Audio, not so much.
Like not at all, as far as I can tell.
So anyway, here is what I get when I do cat /dev/sndstat:
pcm0: HDA Realtek ALC888 PCM #0 Analog (play/rec) default
pcm1: HDA Realtek
Bernt Hansson bah at bananmonarki.se wrote:
As root sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=2
Yes, unfortunately I had already tried that before I posted. (Sorry, I
should have mentioned that also.)
That made no difference whatsoever to the outcome. There was still no
sound coming out when I tried
I would like to make a backup of one of my systems using dump(8) in order
to be sure that I get everything, including all of the obscure file attribute
bits.
I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks.
What's the proper procedure for this?
In the dump(8) man page, I
In message caogwamvoncti7akmtjw0+caastfhfae5gw+pkmh+4ldr00-...@mail.gmail.com
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote:
Assume one file will NOT be copied more than ONE DVD , i.e. , each file
will be completely recorded on one DVD :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_stock_problem
In message 20121105021817.fc5bff1b.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks.
If you think you can add compression to your files (if it makes
sense), it should be incorporated to the command.
Yes. There really
In message 50971b88.40...@herveybayaustralia.com.au,
Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:
Also, you may have considered this already (or not :) ), but you are
using a direct write to backup your system, and then considering
compression on top of that. CD/DVD filesystems
In message 20121105035233.e3c4ae8a.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
But as I said (above) to make this really work right, dump restore really
need to have -z options, and do the zipping/unzipping internally. Only
if this were available could dump properly deal with
In message 20121105051447.6eef32ef.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
The problem is that delegating compression to a sub-task would
imply that dump cannot precisely adjust its output to match the
media size (as the limit is now defined by how good the compression
works).
In message 20121113073030.87bc0608.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
Note that 4k = 8 x 512 byte, and so 64 sectors would be a
good alignment grid, while 63 sectors is not. That implies
that in case you use fdisk to create a slice holding your
partitions, try to make it start
In message 50a2002b.9040...@qeng-ho.org,
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment and block
sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your partitions/slices are
4k aligned everything Should Just Work. Before 9.0 fragments and
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211142231420.58...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
...
Given these facts, I am more than a little surpised to learn (or rather
just to realize) that the good old traditional fdisk and bsdlabel
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211142250370.58...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I'm looking at the examples section of the gpart(8) man page. May I
assume that if I just want to merely ``try out'' GPT... you know...
taking
In message 50a4f2c8.5040...@qeng-ho.org,
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
On 11/15/12 12:41, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
-b is the beginning block of a partition. 34 is a magic value, the size
of a standard GPT partition table.
It probably wouldn't have hurt anything to mention
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211150828040.62...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In your tutorial document, you say:
Create a boot partition to hold the loader, size of 512K.
How big is that thing (gpart boot loader
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211150844350.62...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Well, given that newfs has been ``fixed'' so that its defaults will
Do The Right Thing with the latest generation of (4KB block) disks,
I for one
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211151456450.66...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
It wouldn't hurt to add the above info to your tutorial page.
The problem with that sort of detail is that too much of it obscures the
point, which in this case is just trying to show the right
Warren,
In the EXAMPLES section of the gpart(8) man page, they do this:
/sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ad0
In your document however, you first create an explicit (special) partition
named gpboot and then you do this instead:
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 da0
(This stuff would probably be a lot less confiusing if I actually knew
what I was doing, but...)
OK, Warren, I've just done the following steps. The first two I drew
from the manpage examples, and then followed those up with two commands
from your tutorial.
/sbin/gpart create -s GPT ada0
NEVERMIND!
It took me awhile, but I think I've finally got the hang of this gpart/GPT
stuff... well... mostly anyway (but see below).
I understand now that /boot/mbr is a regular sort of MBR, with regular
sort of MBR bootstrap code, whereas /boot/pbmr is the ``protected'' MBR
record that says,
Well friends, it's that time of year again... yep, it's shop till you drop
time!
This year it appears that everybody and his brother is having a sale on
compact (mostly 2.5 inch) external drives, and most of them nowadays have
a USB 3.0 connection.
That's swell, and there are some really good
Just a brief follow-up on my questions here (about 2 weeks ago) regarding
so-called Advanced Format (4KB block) drives...
I just got myself a shiny new Seagate 2.5 portable external 1TB hard drive.
fdisk is telling me this about it:
I just wanted to add another data point... in case anybody is interested...
uring my recent spending binge, I also acquired a Hatachi portable external
2.5 inch Touro Moble 500GB drive.
Righ out of the box, this is what fdisk tells me about this one:
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211262232330.38...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Starting sector 2048 is definitely a multiple of 4KB, so I am assuming
that all I really need to do here in order to use this new drive as extra
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211272215360.62...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
I tried to do as you suggest and change the partition type to freebsd-ufs,
but there's a problem...
# gpart modify -i 1 -t freebsd-ufs /dev/da1
gpart: Invalid argument
da1 is the drive.
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211281735290.69...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211272215360.62...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
I tried to do as you suggest and change
I'd like to write a small program or shell script that simply lists all
of the physical hard drives attached to the local system, along with their
product identifiers and their respective capacities.
The following simple script works well for both PATA/SATA and USB hard drives,
but it does not
In message 50c12b6c.5020...@tundraware.com,
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote:
On 12/06/2012 05:30 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I'd like to write a small program or shell script that simply lists all
of the physical hard drives attached to the local system, along with their
product
This problem has been annoying me for some time now, but until now
it was never really an issue that I could not easily work-around.
I was just trying to download a PDF document off of the Pacer[tm]
federal courts web site. These are not free. They cost ten cents
per page. I tried to download
One question about portupgrade has been nagging me, in the back of my
mind, for some time now.
Assume for the moment that on some given system, the root user has two
terminal sessions open, i.e. either two instances of xterm or else two
console sessions.
Also assume that there exist three
I am, at long last, moving my main system over onto a new drive where
I have just installed a fresh copy of 9.1-RELEASE, and where I have
built and installed essentially all of the ports I had on my old
(8.3-RELEASE) system... at least the ones that I am actually still
actively using.
A problem
I exactly followed the directions here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-February/238118.html
Nontheless, my /dev/lpt0 node still only has permissions set to 0644.
Why?
What did I do wrong?
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In general, I don't upgrade my ports very often, so up until recently
I was running a fairly old version of firefox (firefox-15.0.1,1).
But over the weekend, I moved everything over to a new drive
containing the latest 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD, and with a complete set
of freshly rebuilt ports,
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