Re: flash plugin after xorg update

2007-09-17 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
This flash issue has made me reconsider buying a low-end laptop running vista, so I dont have the urgency to deal with this issue. One thing I need flash to work is that I watch mlbtv, and it requires flash plugin to initiate. Also for some other multimedia on the internet, having flash working

Re: flash plugin after xorg update

2007-09-19 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
so I googled.. and found that this flash thing could result from one of two reasons, 1. composite extension might be internally made On, I add Composite false to my xorg.conf 2. change depth from 16 to 24. I did all of them, and now the flash is back on..at least i can watch mlbtv.. :-) TFC On

resolve.cong

2007-04-06 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, my computer gets DHCP IP from my router, and also writes my resolve.confin my /etc by dhclient (as I learned from the handbook). It writes search hsd1.md.comcast.net. and nameserver 192.168.0.1 in the resolve.conf. I found this is not very efficient. Once I put nameserver 68.87.73.242

quiet port update

2007-05-06 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, just these days, I csup tp update ports from cvsup3 and 4 but turns out nothing to update/// it looks a bit unusual to me, it's everything alright or did I do something wrong?? thank you!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

xorg meta-port

2007-05-20 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, just cvsup the new port tree and get ready to upgrade xorg, while reading the 'UPDATE', it caught my eyes that it mentioned better have xorg meta-port installed. I checked my installation and these are what i have originally in terms of xorg6.9: /var/db/pkg/xorg-clients-6.9.0_3

xorg updating observation

2007-05-20 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, while executing portupgrade -Rf libXft i noticed that it starts to build some oxrg7.2 stuff, is this the way it should be?? thanks!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

ld can't find -lX11

2007-05-20 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I guess this is really simple, but I am not familiar with ld thing. During xorg upgrade, graphics/glitz failed, and complained that ld can't find -lX11, what should I do?? please advise, thanks!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

gstreamer-plugins80 problem

2007-05-21 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, sorry i have many problems during this xorg upgrade. i seemed to have done most, if not all, my upgrade due to xorg, and now it comes to gstreamer stuff. what i have is gstreamer-plugins80 that is required by wxgtk. By running the command, portupgrade -Rr 'gstreamer*', I got an error,

Fwd: Flashplugin problem after xorg 7.2 upgrade

2007-06-02 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
thank you for your instructions!! this helps a lot, now I can also enjoy youtube and watch mlb.tv on firefox with mplayer plugin. I also have coredump when running nspluginwrapper, and while running firefox, this is what I got on the output: *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable

laptop video output

2007-06-13 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, (hope this is in right forum) I want to buy a laptop, but dont know if fbsd support video output so i can use to do presentation. Thank you!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

azureus problem

2007-06-17 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, just upgrade azureus to 3.0.1.4 and found out an interesting fact: if I compiled it with swt-devel, it succeeds; failed when compiled with swt. But this swt-devel-azureus failed to run when I want to add a new torrent file from the menu bar. I said this from experience, last time my azureus

Re: azureus problem

2007-06-17 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
thank you! that was a good idea!! But it still failed to run.. :-( TFC On 6/17/07, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 06:48:12PM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, just upgrade azureus to 3.0.1.4 and found out an interesting fact: if I compiled it with swt

Re: azureus problem

2007-06-17 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
this is what i got when i try to load a new torrent.. /home/tfcheng more hs_err_pid74806.log # # An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine: # # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x280da5af, pid=74806, tid=0x805c000 # # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM

Fwd: azureus problem

2007-06-17 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jun 17, 2007 9:50 PM Subject: Re: azureus problem To: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] yeah, i compiled myself... (went to java site to downlaod those sources) thans!! TFC On 6/17/07, Garrett Cooper

Re: azureus problem

2007-06-17 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
or maybe i should use jdk1.4?? TFC Hmmm... there might be an issue between the SWT library and the Java VM. I'd first see if you can use a different VM, then try and contact the Azureus, then the SWT devs about this issue if it persists, working your way up

Re: azureus problem

2007-06-18 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, is there pre-compiled package for jdk15?? i thought there is a liscence issue.. and i can't find it on freebsd ftp.. TFC On 6/17/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: or maybe i should use jdk1.4?? TFC Hmmm... there might be an issue

Re: FreeBSD 3D Desktop (XGL/AIGLX/...) how to start?

2007-06-19 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, i have a silly question about beryl/compiz.. what is the relationship between beryl and say, gnome?? thanks TFC On 6/19/07, Khairil Yusof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 20:17 -0300, Jason Hills wrote: Hello, I would like to try adding a 3D Desktop feel to my laptop,

Re: FreeBSD 3D Desktop (XGL/AIGLX/...) how to start?

2007-06-19 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
then can I install beryl without gnome?? TFC On 6/19/07, Andy Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/19/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, i have a silly question about beryl/compiz.. what is the relationship between beryl and say, gnome

Re: FreeBSD 3D Desktop (XGL/AIGLX/...) how to start?

2007-06-19 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
so are there any alternatives I can choose besides gnome?? just feel that gnome/kde is bloated, xfce4?? thanks!! TFC On 6/19/07, Andy Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Answer: Yes. Question: Is top posting bad? On 6/19/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote

Re: FreeBSD 3D Desktop (XGL/AIGLX/...) how to start?

2007-06-20 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
/07, Khairil Yusof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:03 -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, i have a silly question about beryl/compiz.. what is the relationship between beryl and say, gnome?? thanks Beryl/Compiz are window managers. They control position, size, minimised

freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 installed. How can I install linux and freebsd on it? My experience is about installing on a desktop by booting from floppies. THank you!! TFC

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
no, i dont have floppy... TFC On 6/20/07, Eduardo Viruena Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 installed

t-shirt with bsd logo

2007-06-22 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, lately I shopped at cafepress.com and found they also host virtual store for you. so how about have the fbsd foundation set up a store there with daemon's logo on some merchandise? and the $$ that made goes to the foundation? of course this would require that having the agreement using the

Re: and again ntfs in fbsd

2007-06-22 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
umm not being an code worrier myself, I usually update my port tree first, then do a clean install (make clean; make install distclean) like that, then get down my keens and pray...:) TFC On 6/22/07, Anton Galitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/22/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

gimp error

2007-06-23 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, i am using gimp 2.2 on fbsd 6.2, i found that gimp crash when I try to draw a line using tools like brush or pencil, a dot is fine, does anybody have this trouble?? thanks!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: gimp error

2007-06-23 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
On 6/23/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i am using gimp 2.2 on fbsd 6.2, i found that gimp crash when I try to draw a line using tools like brush or pencil, a dot is fine, does anybody have this trouble?? thanks!! not knowing if this would help, here is the message

Re: gimp error

2007-06-23 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
yep! that works!! thanks!! TFC On 6/23/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 10:57:10AM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, i am using gimp 2.2 on fbsd 6.2, i found that gimp crash when I try to draw a line using tools like brush or pencil, a dot is fine, does

mount windows xp

2006-06-03 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, i have a problem when trying to mount windows xp disk, I have freebsd6.1/amd64 on a SATA and wondows xp on a 80gb regular ATA disk separatly. I boot into freebsd and under /dev, it shows: ad0 ad0s1 ad4 ad4s1 ... ad0 is the win$$ disk and ad4 is fbsd disk. I use mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s1

Re: mount windows xp

2006-06-04 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
?? p.s. i tried copy and it's the same.. many thanks!! TFC On 6/3/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i have a problem when trying to mount windows xp disk, I have freebsd6.1/amd64 on a SATA and wondows xp on a 80gb regular ATA disk separatly. I boot into freebsd and under /dev

azureus on freebsd and windows

2006-06-19 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi folks, happy fathers day! I have Azureus running both on windows and on freebsd/amd64. and I found it was very different, on windows azureus is very quick in downloading files, but not on freebsd, it is very slow and usually no download. I forward the port through the router and it's still

Re: azureus on freebsd and windows

2006-06-20 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I edited the libmap.conf but now it coredumps when I ran azureus i am running jdk1.5.0-p3 on freebsd 6.1/amd64 I attach the error log (don't know if mailing list accept attachment) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Next steps

2008-01-29 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
for me, it's compiling a custom kernel and installing apps. TFC On Jan 29, 2008 9:41 AM, Darryl Hoar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I have just installed 6.3-Release on brand new hardware. In the past, I have not done much to a machine after initial installation. What should be done to

Re: suitable laptops

2008-01-29 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
check out this site: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ TFC On Jan 29, 2008 3:56 PM, Lee Shackelford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Greetings. Is anyone aware of a list of laptop computers on which it is especially easy to install FreeBSD, or conversely, on which it is

vi+urxvt8.9+oxim for traditional chinese, HOW??

2008-01-30 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I use rxvt-unicode8.9+oxim, want to vi a text document in tradictional chinese. I have locale set as LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UT-8. I first have my input looks like xx/xx/. Then I set LC_CTYPE to en_US.ISO8859-1, I got nothing. How should I get this done?? thank you!! (freebsd 6.2) TFC

Re: vi+urxvt8.9+oxim for traditional chinese, HOW??

2008-02-01 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
some are displayed correctly, but some are wrong, still looks like \XX\XX, feel like not all the characters are not well represented TFC On Jan 30, 2008 11:30 PM, Edward G.J. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, I use rxvt-unicode8.9+oxim

Re: vi+urxvt8.9+oxim for traditional chinese, HOW??

2008-02-02 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
like this: from website: 在民進黨總統候選人 from urxvt+vi (iso8859-1 locale): å\x9c¨æ°\x91é\x80²黨總統å\x80\x99é\x81¸ ... On Feb 1, 2008 10:05 PM, Edward G.J. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: some are displayed correctly, but some are wrong, still looks like \XX

should I change to multicore CPU??

2008-02-09 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I know that freebsd7 has huge improvement on multi-threading execution. I wonder if I upgrade to 7, would I feel it?? I now own a amd64/3400+, running 6.3. It's just personal use, download files, watch movies, etc. I guess it will be faster on multi-core when I run mencoder to encode movie,

hardware problem

2008-02-25 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi guys, this is really not about freebsd per sa. But this is the only computer-related forum I use. so please forgive me. my desktop was relocated due to my recent moving to a new apartment. After settling down at the new place, I plug in the cables and the computer won't start up. I open

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-25 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
thank you all for helping. I will reinstall my main again from scratch. one thing i want to know is that if my m-board is short somewhere, does this mean my board is damaged? or it's okay if i can find out what is wrong, and so most likely i need to buy a power supply, is that right at the

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-25 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
for your help. TFC On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 08:06 AM 2/25/2008, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi guys, this is really not about freebsd per sa. But this is the only computer-related forum I use. so please forgive me

install/upgrade question

2008-03-05 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I think this Q is pretty basic, but I just want to make sure. I was considering if upgrading from 6.3 to 7.0 and something goes wrong, and I need to do a fresh install. Can I only change/overwrite the /etc /usr, etc but leave /home intact?? thank you!!

Re: install/upgrade question

2008-03-05 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:59:45 -0500 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think this Q is pretty basic, but I just want to make sure. I was considering if upgrading from 6.3 to 7.0 and something goes wrong, and I need to do a fresh install. Can I only change/overwrite

Re: install/upgrade question

2008-03-05 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
um... dont remember exactly.. but it mounts 2 other HD drives, and the usual, such as / (root), procs (perhaps?), /home swap, .. why?? On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2008 14:59:45 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: I think this Q is pretty basic

megaupload download script

2008-08-12 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I use service from megaupload, i wonder if there is a script that can automatically download each file, one after the other without me clicking myself? thank you!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

how to run JDownloader on freebsd 7?

2008-08-28 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I just download the JDownloader to use with megaupload, I have jdk1.5 installed, but when running JDownloader.jar java JDownloader.jar, it show Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: JDownloader/jar how should I do this right? thanks!! TFC

FSJ clone

2008-09-21 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, is there a similar program like FSJ, file split/join tool on freebsd? thanks!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FSJ clone

2008-09-21 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
] wrote: what do you mean media file? On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Tim Kellers wrote: For media files, there is also lxsplit in ports. /usr/ports/sysutils/lxsplit Tim Wojciech Puchar wrote: man split man cat On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, is there a similar program like FSJ

Re: FSJ clone

2008-09-22 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
something.___a, something__b... TFC On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:41 PM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:07:48 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i try cat, but it doesn't seem right, The files i download are components of a movie, but after I cat them, mplayer

Re: FSJ clone

2008-09-22 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
try both, neither work, appreciated though. TFC On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:36 AM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:53:06 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: something.___a, something__b... I'd try joining with cat, and then unraring or unzipping

portupgrade question

2006-10-21 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi people, I just did the portupgrade -rf pkg-config\* to upgrade the apps, but i think some of the upgrades went wrong so there are a whole bunch ports skipped. I noticed glib20 has some compilation error, and probably is the cause to all the rest. To fix this, should I apply the same command

icu

2006-10-22 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, got a icu compilation problem, it's icu3.6. ... Errors in total: 1. TestOtherAPI NewResourceBundleTest utility any idea?? thanks!! p.s. icu2 is good TFC

Re: icu

2006-10-23 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
yes...under devel/icu? icu2 compile just fine. TFC On 10/23/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, got a icu compilation problem, it's icu3.6. ... Errors in total: 1. TestOtherAPI

Re: icu

2006-10-23 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
turns out it's my locale problem, after unsetenv LC_CTYPE, it went through.. thank you!! TFC On 10/23/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [don't top-post, please] Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yes...under devel/icu? icu2 compile just fine. I looked at the bug database

Re: gconfd problem

2006-11-03 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
never finished it. my computer reboot during the process a couple of times, i assume it's because of the heat or something, and it was fine until now. can someone point me a way to fix this? thank you so much!! Tsu-Fan Cheng

portmanager question

2006-11-05 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi people, as recently i have problem with firefox, i thought i will try to upgrade my port by my way... as i first run portmanager -s log to see what ports are outdated, and if that port seem critical, I will do portupgrade -R/-r to fix it. it's probably not the best, but I decided to

freebsd mount windows or vise versa

2006-11-09 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi people, does anyone know how to mount and read/write freebsd/windows disk from windows/freebsd? mount_ntfs command can only read, it there some app that can write as well? thanks!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

TV capture card

2006-11-09 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, can anyone suggest a TV capture card that works well under freebsd/6.1/amd64? I read something on the handbook, but would like to have some input from the real experience...thanks!! a bunch!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

TV capture card

2006-11-10 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi thank you guys. I just ordered a TV card from Avermedia, it should be using brooktree chip. i chose AverMedia over Happahauge simply because it's less expensive. :-) (i actually live in long island, Happahauge is just right here...). I expect i will have some twicking to do to make it work,

Re: libpangocairo

2006-11-10 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, mine is in /usr/local/lib/, did you install x11-toolkit/pango? TFC On 11/10/06, Wayne M Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD, For the packages mozilla and inkscape, I cannot locate or install libpangocairo.so Where can I find it? inkscape /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared

Re: TV capture card

2006-11-10 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
can be right, the vendor's website didn't tell me what chip it uses right now. (cross my fingers...) TFC On 11/10/06, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:18:54 -0500 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: thank you guys. I just ordered a TV card from Avermedia, it should be using

Re: X windows configuration problem

2006-11-12 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
do u have an xorg.conf to show us?? tfc On 11/12/06, arnuld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hai all, i am not able to configure my X-Windows system. i will be brief: 1.) ASUS K8V-MX motherboard running AMD64 Athlon 2.) VIA K8M800, VIA 8T237R chipsets. i downloaded FreeBSD 6.1 last night have

hands-on experience on 6.1 amd64 vs. i386

2006-11-13 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
this is nothing professional, just my personal experience. same machine, two sata, one is amd64, the other i386. while doing portupgrade due to gtk upgrade on amd64, it reboot a few times, never finished the job, and i can't say why. but on i386, portupgrade -fa due to no maintenance for a couple

TV card on freebsd

2006-11-14 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, this is a follow-up to what I posted before, about choosing a TV card to use on freebsd6.2. Okay, so the card I got A VerMedia M-500 ...DOES NOT work!! Indeed!!! It uses Philip chip. shoot but I have windows xp installed on another HD, after downloading the driver and all, that seemed

Re: Opera and FreeBSD

2006-11-17 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
thank you Anna, as opera already has a binary for freebsd, I think we are good! Regards, TFC (I am not a team member... :)) On 11/17/06, Anna Rajsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi FreeBSD Team, My name is Anna Rajsman and I am working in Opera Software. Recently I took over Linux distribution

Re: Opera and FreeBSD

2006-11-17 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
load, do you know why? TFC On 11/17/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thank you Anna, as opera already has a binary for freebsd, I think we are good! Regards, TFC (I am not a team member... :)) On 11/17/06, Anna Rajsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi FreeBSD Team, My name is Anna

mkxvcd not working due to floating point expression of movie length identification from mplayer

2006-12-13 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi ... i need to use mkxvcd script to create movies, but it gave me error messages. After some debugging I found out it's because (I guess) that mplayer use floating point expression instead of integer when identifying the length of the movie, like 208.15 or something. Anyway, when mkxvcd trying

Re: Unicode support on FreeBSD

2006-12-15 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, i just taste the flavor of unicode a while ago, my point is to read chinese/jap file name which file is downloaded over the internet. i installed rxvt-unicode, and set my env in .cshrc LC_CTYPE to zh_TW.UTF-8, and i think now i can read those file name with no problemo... TFC On 12/15/06,

Re: i finally got wireless working

2006-12-17 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi... I would like to ask a wireless problem but has little to do with the article here... i want to setup my desktop to use wireless, but there doesn't seem to have a lot of wireless PCI card supported available, and the supported ones are quite expensive... I wonder if there is a more updated

firefox can't save file

2006-12-22 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
HI, my firefox and linux-firefox can't save files, all i got is in the dmesg, that said Warning: pid 87165 used static ldt allocation. See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info what shall i do?? TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: firefox can't save file

2006-12-23 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
: linux-atk-1.9.1 Dependency: linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5 Dependency: linux-pango-1.8.1 Dependency: linux-gtk2-2.6.10 Dependency: linux-hicolor-icon-theme-0.5_1 On 12/23/06, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/23/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, my firefox and linux

Re: system failed, save tasks

2006-12-26 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
yeah, truely. i heard this voice coming out of my headset while i was sitting in the living room enjoying some holiday movies :-) It took me a while to attend to that, by the time I got to my console, my monitor had no signal, but the power light on the box is on. I couldn't login remotely so I

kino 0.9.4 compile failed

2006-12-27 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, wonder if anybody has seen this, i just sync my port tree and updrage kino to 0.9.4 by portupgrade, it failed with a report: frame.cc: In member function `bool Frame::CreateEncoder(bool, bool)': frame.cc:1302: error: cannot convert `AVCodecContext' to `AVCodecContext*' in initialization

Re: Help with a flash memory

2006-12-28 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
when u plug in ur usb device, i think the kernel will detect it and show some message in dmesg, then you should use mount_msdos /dev/xxx /mnt, something like that.. TFC On 12/28/06, Robe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a flash memory myflash with 1Gb. Ubuntu Linux and Fedora detects

a Q about mixer

2006-12-30 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, one quick question, how can I change the default of mixer?? when I reboot the system, the mic and rec are always zero, and I have to adjust them so i can use skype, kinda pain in the butt, thx!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: a Q about mixer

2006-12-31 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
yeah, this I know, I just wonder how I can keep the previous setting even after the reboot, thx!! TFC On 12/31/06, Beni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 05:45, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, one quick question, how can I change the default of mixer?? when I reboot

Re: Best Cheap Wireless card for FreeBSD

2007-01-05 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, any PCI card here?? thanks!! TFC On 1/5/07, Gable Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/5/07, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best wireless card, USB or other, that works under FreeBSD? Not sure what your idea of cheap is, but I have been very happy with my Atheros

Re: Best Cheap Wireless card for FreeBSD

2007-01-05 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, can u tell me the brand name of the card is?? thanks!! TFC On 1/5/07, Radu Adrian Zdrinca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a PCI card with a ralink chipset for about $20 from newegg. It was recognized automatically during freebsd 6.1 install.

dlink ehome wireless

2007-01-06 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I wonder has anybody tried ehome wireless PCI card on freebsd? I tried to look for ehome info but is not listed in dlink website, why?? thanks!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

change port dependent...

2007-01-07 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, how can i change port dependent again ? i first make a change by doing pkgdb -F and switched to another dependent, but now i want to change it back, but since it's already been corrected, pkgdb -F didn't ask any question, thanks!! TFC ___

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-01-09 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
I use cvsup stable source, and upgrade the system according to README (?) in /usr/src, it suits me fine for a couple fo upgrades. TFC On 1/9/07, stefanos sofroniou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sirs, I just wanted to ask you since FreeBSD 6.2 is going to be released, sooner or later I will

azureus abort

2007-01-10 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, my azuresu aborts when i try to add new torrent, i don't remember if i did anything but only that i might have played with swt version during make, but i have rebuild it with swt3.2.1, here is the error log: # # An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine: # # SIGSEGV

fxtv problem

2007-01-14 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi people, i just bought a TV card and installed fxtv from port with option 'EXTRA' on, when I ran it, fxtv said: # fxtv mmap of driver buffer failed: Invalid argument I googled sometime, and found an entry about commenting out one option in the kernel config file, so I am left with: # TV

duo core question

2007-01-16 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, just chat here... how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when running freebsd, nothing optimised.. thans!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: duo core question

2007-01-16 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
thank you guys for reply... very useful... :-) so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really feel it?? TFC On 1/16/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:11:20 -0500 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how much faster will a duo core CPU

from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work?

2008-03-27 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I am thinking upgrading my hardware to core2 duo to enjoy fbsd 7.0, my old 6.3 runs on amd64 3400+. If I just buy a new m-board+core 2 cpu, can my old installation boot up the system, and then allow me to recompile kernel and stuff? I thought about getting a new drive too to do a fresh

Re: from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work?

2008-03-27 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
forgot to mention, i am running i386 version, after finding out that lots of ports still not supported well under amd64 arch... TFC On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:13 PM, mdh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am thinking upgrading my hardware

avifile on fbsd 7

2008-04-06 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
good day, I just started to update ports from 6.3 to 7.0 after done updating my kernel. sadly to find out that avifile cant be compiled under 7.0 due to error. I need this because I run mkxvcd and transcode a lot to recode/encode multimedia files. is there any suggestion to get around this

freebsd 7 stable, which tag??

2008-04-07 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I just update to 7.0 using csup, I have a question about how to write the tag in src supfile. should I use RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_0? any difference?? thank you!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: freebsd 7 stable, which tag??

2008-04-07 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
sorry, I just read some articles in the mailing list, it's RELENG_7 for stable, 7_0 is for current. On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just update to 7.0 using csup, I have a question about how to write the tag in src supfile. should I use

Re: freebsd 7 stable, which tag??

2008-04-07 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
so in a sense, 7.0-release is for developers, and 7.0-stable for end users, right? TFC On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: sorry, I just read some articles in the mailing list, it's RELENG_7 for stable, 7_0 is for current

oxim compilation error under 7.0

2008-04-07 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, when trying to upgrade oxim under 7.0, error occurs, c++ -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -pthread -o oxim-setup .obj/main.o .obj/oxim-setup.o .obj/globolsetting.o .obj/gencin.o .obj/chewing.o .obj/installim.o .obj/qmake_image_collection.o .obj/moc_oxim-setup.o

keysym error while starting X

2008-04-08 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I found that I can't start x-window because of some keysym error, when entering X using xinit, I have these on the screen: expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: line 70 of pc expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: line 71 of pc expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc

crash after hibernating

2008-04-09 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I am running 7.0 stable on a asus a8v skt board. I found my system crash (cant wake up from keyboard/mouse) after I left the system running over night. I can't login by ssh from my laptop, the sshd seems dead too. does anyone have similar experiences?? thank you!! TFC

Bittyrant crash when moving from 7-stable to 7-release

2008-04-21 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, my bittyrant stop to work when moving from 7-stable to 7-release. this is the error message: # # An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine: # # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x2810c887, pid=1034, tid=0x28201100 # # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM

amule crash

2008-06-06 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, my amule (freebsd 7.0/i386) crash regularly due to: pid 2032 (amule), uid 1001, was killed: out of swap space how does this happen? and how to fix this?? thanks!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

portmaster argument question

2008-06-09 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, just noticed that I need to update a whole bunch of ports due to gettext issue, I am used to portmaster and henceforth exec portmaster -uBdr gettext\* -x avifile to server this need. however, the update is interrupted and needed to restart, I noticed an option (-R) to allow skipping ports

Re: portmaster argument question

2008-06-10 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi all, now I am taking a step back, instead of letting portmaster decides which to upgrade, I use the option -i to interactively update the ports. and I found out that -uBdir is different from -u -B -d -i -r, the latter one is the right way. I dont know how to use -R option, since I have tried

linux_sys_futex: unknown op 128

2008-06-12 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi all, i have this weird log in my /var/log/messages, it keeps showing Jun 12 06:53:36 kernel: linux_sys_futex: unknown op Jun 12 06:53:36 kernel: 128 Jun 12 06:53:36 kernel: linux_sys_futex: unknown op 128 and it seems to have something to do with my flash plugin, as I kill npviewer,

Re: linux_sys_futex: unknown op 128

2008-06-12 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
i c, will do that, thank you!! TFC On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Aline de Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em Thursday 12 June 2008 07:55:55 Tsu-Fan Cheng escreveu: hi all, i have this weird log in my /var/log/messages, it keeps showing

amule eats up my swap!!

2008-06-13 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi all, I guess this is a rare issue, but I think my amule, when no upload limit, eats up my swap, and cause amule to crash. After I set limit to 10K, the mule runs fine. I have 1G ram and 2G swap, and without upload limit, amule crash very often. does anyone know what is going on?? thank you!

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