List flames (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-20 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Stephen Cook wrote: I'm a relative newcomer. Are the FreeBSD mailing lists always this flame-y? I realize that this particular post might be trolling / satire, but others in the thread (and other unrelated threads recently) are a FAR CRY from the technical support and disc

Re: converting mpost(ed) files individually to eps

2012-06-18 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Antonio Olivares wrote: But I get error in line 16: $ ./mpost-eps webfig ./mpost-eps: 16: Syntax error: word unexpected for file in file.* do Either put the "do" on the next line, or put a ; before it: for file in file.* ; do __

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-13 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: On 12 June 2012 18:03, William Orr wrote: Hello, I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an initial full when this h

Re: xfce 4.10 update problems

2012-06-11 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, jb wrote: Warren Block wonkity.com> writes: ... - startx fails when moused enabled (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0 Device busy. (EE) PS/2 Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit returned NULL for "PS/2 Mouse" (E

Re: speed of "dump"

2012-06-11 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Another thread, which I seem to have lost, was talking about dump and sizing its cache. Per my promise, appended is the log of this morning's level 0 dump, using C=32. THe system is -CURRENT from March, using AMD Phemon II x4/3ghz and SAT

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette writes: 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

Re: xfce 4.10 update problems

2012-06-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, jb wrote: Hi, after portmaster update: - there are missing icons in main menu and that of Terminal - startx fails when moused enabled (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0 Device busy. (EE) PS/2 Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit returned NULL f

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message , Warren Block 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 /mnt

Re: fn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/10/12 10:47, Gary Aitken wrote: What's the trick to allow fn to still be used to switch vtys when running X? At first I thought it was the wm grabbing it, but I've disabled that and now it goes to whatever app has the focus. Seems like something

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: (I got the Wrong Impression, I think, because I have read assertions like "...dump backs up at the filesystem block level...". What does that mean exactly? Use of the term "block level" in this context makes me think of something operating along

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-09 Thread Warren Block
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 as I understand it, with either of these methods you end up copying perhaps

Re: Performance and mouse problems

2012-06-08 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Albert Shih wrote: After some time, and read new messages ont this mailing list, I find a solution. Deactivate hald deactivate dbus Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" put moused_enable="On" in /etc/rc.conf and rebo

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-08 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette writes: I got a lot of disks here, so that part is not a problem. I just need to make sure that I'm gonna do this the Right Way[tm]. (I've already been making my own ham-fisted disk-to-disk backups in the past, but I'm sure that

Re: dumping file system subtree (/var)

2012-06-07 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: When I originally set up my SSD, the stuff I was following indicated there was no need to put anythng on a separate filesystem. I'm now trying to build a backup system on a usb drive and I want a separate /var and /tmp. I had originally set the nodump

Re: mount failure

2012-06-07 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: Running under X with xfce, just did this: gpart show -l da0 gpart delete -i 1 da0 gpart destroy da0 gpart create -s GPT da0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr da0 gpart add -t freebsd-boot -i 1 -s 512K -l gptboot da0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/gptboot -i 1

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-06 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: Can the reason for me not getting the title to change be that I very often use screen when updating ports? Sure, the escape codes are interpreted by screen, not Terminal. There may be a way to pass them through. tmux has some options for that, but I

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-06 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Erich wrote: Hi, On 06 June 2012 6:37:43 Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Erich wrote: Hi I have had success on my hardware with this setting: # The working configuration. The mouse daemon in /etc/rc.conf # was dsabled

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-06 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Erich wrote: Hi I have had success on my hardware with this setting: # The working configuration. The mouse daemon in /etc/rc.conf # was dsabled. # # Section "ServerLayout" # Identifier "X.org Configured" #

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to work. I have scoured the handbook,

Re: bsdlabel geometry params

2012-06-04 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: What part of the Handbook? I would suggest using gpart(8), it makes GPT partitions easy, and nasty old MBR partitions aren't any worse than with fdisk/bsdlabel. 19.3.2 That's the Storage chapter, section "Command Line Utilities". That is yet another

Re: bsdlabel geometry params

2012-06-04 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: According the the handbook, one should do the following to set up a new disk: 1 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=1 2 fdisk -BI da1 #Initialize your new disk 3 bsdlabel -B -w da1s1 auto #Label it. 4 bsdlabel -e da1s1 # Edit the bsdlabel just created

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-04 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/04/12 08:15, Warren Block wrote: gamin opens the directory (of the newly-mounted device) so it can check for new files being created or files being renamed, and then notify the window manager, which updates the user's desktop. The open make

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-04 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/03/12 21:05, Polytropon wrote: Maybe the ganim "lock" is regarding a device file? Not sure about that, I'm not using it here. I'm not sure what the deal is here, but exiting X does solve the problem. I didn't try just killing the environment by

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-04 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2012-06-04 09:41, Doug Barton skrev: On 06/04/2012 00:35, Leslie Jensen wrote: I found that setting and changed it. That should do it then. Thanks to Warren for suggesting it. I forgot to tell you that I'm working through an SSH connection and maybe

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-03 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: 6. And finally, any idea why umount says the device is busy? xfce uses gamin to scan for new files and directories, but it causes just this problem. Edit /usr/local/etc/gamin/gaminrc and set it to poll the device directory: poll /mnt/* _

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-03 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2012-06-02 19:18, Doug Barton skrev: On 6/2/2012 8:09 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm thinking about some kind of information on the build progress Portmaster already has that if you're building in

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-06-03 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote: By the way, have you tried using your filter directly for testing? As mentioned before, prepare a printable PS file, then do: # cat test.ps | /var/spool/lpd/hp8500/diff.2 | nc 123.45.67.890 Note: nc is from port "nc" (netcat). It will send it direc

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-03 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2012-06-02 19:18, Doug Barton skrev: On 6/2/2012 8:09 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm thinking about some kind of information on the build progress Portmaster already has that if you're building in a terminal window, look in the titlebar. I can take a

Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-02 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 23:07:45 +0400, Peter Vereshagin wrote: Hello. 2012/06/02 23:40:25 +0700 Victor Sudakov => To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : VS> What video card would the collective mind of FreeBSD users recommend? VS> I'm not a gamer, this box runs

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-06-02 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote: Warren Block wrote: Thank you very much for the useful tips. One more question regarding SSD. The FreeBSD installer enabled journaled soft-updates on the filesystem which resides on the SSD. Is it good, bad or irrelevant for the SSD ? Mostly

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged to an USB2(two!) reports da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 da5: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote: Warren Block wrote: I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following tweaking so far: 1. tmpmfs="YES" (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too). 2. mount -o noatime 3. tunefs -t enable I have not done any tricky partition align

Re: fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:19:33 +0400, dmi...@zhigulinet.ru wrote: Good afternoon. Could not tell whether you can run fsck on checking mounted file system as read-only, if prior to that with which the parameters ftp # mount ... / dev/aacd0 on / var / ftp (u

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following tweaking so far: 1. tmpmfs="YES" (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too). 2. mount -o noatime 3. tunefs -t enable I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I really ne

Re: newfs on a SSD

2012-05-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Roland Smith wrote: What I would certainly recommend is that you make a daily automated backup (may I suggest calling rsync from cron at night?) of the SSD's filesystem to an actual HDD, just to be sure. sysutils/rsnapshot is convenient. I used it to rsync the new SSD ont

Swap files and panics

2012-05-29 Thread Warren Block
Recently I rearranged partitions on an SSD. The swap partition was eliminated in favor of a swap file on /usr. This works, allows TRIM support on the swap space, and is easier to resize than a partition. However, sometimes the system panics on shutdown. It happens after "syncing disks", so

Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine

2012-05-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 27 May 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hi, I've been running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT for some months, last time i rebuilt the system was April 20th. I've rebooted my machine many times and started X and Xfce4 without any trouble, however today I'm out of town on the road and when I startx my m

Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10

2012-05-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 27 May 2012, Antonio Olivares wrote: I believe that I have found a way to fix the issue. The problem was the DPI, the fonts are the same size. Now everything seems to be normal :) When Settings/Appearance/Custom DPI is unchecked, it should get the actual monitor DPI value from X, wh

Re: why I am upset

2012-05-27 Thread Warren Block
There can be a tremendous investment of time in using software, whether "free" or not. Money too, often. Those who work to write, port, and support free software also spend a tremendous amount of time in doing that. Money too, often. So both parties have a large investment, and it's easy bu

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 25 May 2012, Frank Bonnet wrote: Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not my nat

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: 1. When building a port, the system uses sysinstall to set options for the build. ncurses, not systinstall, but yes. How does one configure those options so make can be run unattended? I didn't see anything in the ports documentation, but maybe I'm bli

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: The latest xorg switches to and from console with my Radeon 4650. It might be a problem specific to the newer version of the Intel video driver. Thanks for the reply Warren, but nope: Driver "radeon" VendorName "ATI Technologi

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: And in worst case, use "portdowngrade" to get an older version of the port (may require r

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:32:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 al

Re: Connect to Clear hub modem

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote: Whoops! By imaginary, I meant not really on the internet, but in 198.168.x.x block reserved for private netting. This combination of things seems to work in rc.conf

Re: Connect to Clear hub modem

2012-05-23 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote: Whoops! By imaginary, I meant not really on the internet, but in 198.168.x.x block reserved for private netting. This combination of things seems to work in rc.conf: network_interfaces="lo0 re0" That is normally not needed. ifconfig="DCHP" ifconfig

Re: eliminate character with sed

2012-05-20 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 20 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: Regarding the use of "sed": I'm not sure if it's possible to do something like % sed -i '.bak' 's/\r//g' config.php because I assume (not tested!) that it's not possible to put in escape sequences like that. But try for yourself and surprise me. :

Re: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

2012-05-19 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: 3. The Xorg man page notes that should cause it to exit. However, it doesn't, and I had to use kill -TERM. Any hints on why doesn't cause it to exit? This is also a new default to _not_ work anymore. You have more than two (if I remember correctly) o

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

2012-05-19 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: That's a bit drastic and pretty much something you'ld never actually want to do in normal usage. However, for completeness' sake: # pkg_delete -af will remove all installed ports. After doing that there should be hardly anything left under /usr/lo

Re: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

2012-05-19 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 18 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: Trying to set up a new box 9.0-RELEASE w/ X; has ATI Radeon HD5500 card. X.org -config says: Missing output drivers. Configuration failed. From X.org I see one is supposed to get linux drivers from ati/amd, but this info is over 2 years old and http:/

Re: Optiplex 755 RAID 1 logical drive configuration ignored by FreeBSD 9.0-R installation

2012-05-18 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 18 May 2012, tess lamont wrote: I created a RAID 1 drive in a Dell Optiplex 755, using the internal RAID controller and two 160GB drives, naming the logical drive "freebsd90". Within the system setup menu, the boot menu shows that "freebsd90" is the first (and only) bootable hard drive

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

2012-05-18 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 18 May 2012, J. W. Ballantine wrote: Before the update of x11 on 4/21/2012, X was working fine, but now when I startx, my usb and touchpad mouse are no longer found. The mouse works in terminal mode, and hald and dbus are started in /etc/rc.conf. I rebuilt x11, but that had no effect,

Re: Article Inquiry

2012-05-15 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 15 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2012 12:33:15 -0700, Lauren Scott wrote: Hello, I was wondering if you would be able to help me locate a copy of the below article: "General Commands Manual for RDIST" June 3, 1993 FreeBSD I appreciate any help you are able to provide.

Re: avrdude and arduino

2012-05-15 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 13 May 2012, Colin Barnabas wrote: Has anyone been able to get the Arduino Uno board working with avrdude? I keep getting programmer not responding errors. avrdude: ser_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding This is the command I'm us

Re: problem with dhclient after update to FreeBSD-8.3

2012-05-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 May 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/05/2012 19:30, Carmel wrote: All I guess I really have to get corrected is the "dhclient" thing, assuming it is a real problem and just not some useless noise. The 'dhclient already running' message is untidy, but harmless. It's the rc system

Re: Performance and mouse problems

2012-05-03 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 3 May 2012, Albert Shih wrote: Le 02/05/2012 ? 10:27:56-0600, Warren Block a écrit On Wed, 2 May 2012, Albert Shih wrote: I think the problem is indeed comme from Xorg. Just to repeat: on this Gateway notebook, only one or the other of the touchpad or mouse would work until I

Re: portmaster won't update libc.so.7

2012-05-02 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2012 10:03:44 -0400 Robert Huff wrote: Jorge Luis =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gonz=E1lez?= writes: When I run: portmaster -a --no-confirm I get the error Installing updates: chflags...///lib/libc.so.7: Operation not permitted Changing

Re: Performance and mouse problems

2012-05-02 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Albert Shih wrote: I think the problem is indeed comme from Xorg. Just to repeat: on this Gateway notebook, only one or the other of the touchpad or mouse would work until I enabled moused in /etc/rc.conf. Now either or both work, including when the USB mouse is connected

Re: netif starting late after upgrade to FreeBSD 9.0 from 8

2012-05-01 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 1 May 2012, Khairil Yusof wrote: I've just upgraded in place from FreeBSD 8 to FreeBSD 9.0. The upgrade following /usr/src/UPDATING was without any problems. The only issue I have is that there seems to be a race condition for bootup scripts in which netif can start later than devices

Re: Performance and mouse problems

2012-04-30 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Albert Shih wrote: Le 29/04/2012 ? 00:58:01+0200, Jerome Herman a écrit I was afraid this would happen. And I fear it is just the begining. Why you say that ? I assume you did not create any custom hald rule. Did you ? I have one, but I try with him (I use since hal

Re: firefox is marked as broken?

2012-04-29 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Beat Gätzi wrote: On Apr 30, 2012, at 7:01 AM, Jong-Beom Kim wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 9.0 last night and so far, so good except firefox installation. it simply doesn't build with this message. # make install clean ===> firefox-12.0,1 is marked as broken: does not

Re: firefox is marked as broken?

2012-04-29 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Jong-Beom Kim wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 9.0 last night and so far, so good except firefox installation. it simply doesn't build with this message. # make install clean ===> firefox-12.0,1 is marked as broken: does not build. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/

Re: First character typed lost

2012-04-29 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, Lars Eighner wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, Warren Block wrote: On a Gateway ML6732 notebook, FreeBSD 9-stable is working great. Video works (i915), sound works, the only thing that isn't quite right is that the first character typed after the FreeBSD kernel loads is

Re: First character typed lost

2012-04-29 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Warren Block wrote: On a Gateway ML6732 notebook, FreeBSD 9-stable is working great.  Video works (i915), sound works, the only thing that isn't quite right is that the first character typed afte

First character typed lost

2012-04-29 Thread Warren Block
On a Gateway ML6732 notebook, FreeBSD 9-stable is working great. Video works (i915), sound works, the only thing that isn't quite right is that the first character typed after the FreeBSD kernel loads is lost. After that, it works normally. This makes entering a passphrase more challenging.

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:41:35 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:14:53 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: Thanks for that link! And thanks to Rod and Poly too. I now have screenlets up and running perfectly. I have kept notes in case any oth

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:43:23 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:37:44 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: I'm trying to get screenlets up and running on 9.0, but I'm getting the following Python error: ImportError: No module named wnck I b

Re: Was..... Lots of lagging after upgrade of xorg. Now keyboard layout is lost

2012-04-24 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2012-04-23 19:56, Leslie Jensen skrev: 2012-04-23 18:29, Warren Block skrev: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: Use Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" to disable HAL in

Re: Lots of lagging after upgrade of xorg.

2012-04-23 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: Hello list. I'm experiencing a lot of lagging after I've upgraded xorg. I use XFCE and just changing from one desktop to another now feels really slow. If I click on a button in an application I have to move the mouse pointer before there's a react

Re: Dual monitors ok, but no mouse and keyboard action on the slave screen

2012-04-22 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:43:31 +0200, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: I`ve gotten a 17 inch monitor in addition to my 22 inch working with 2 separate desktops. I plan to have stuff like wireshark etc on the smallest. But I have a problem, I can get no work done sin

Re: find sources to build Handbook and FAQ for FreeBSD?

2012-04-21 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:50:20 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Antonio Olivares wrote: Does anyone know where the source(s) for the FreeBSD Handbook and FreeBSD FAQ are found

Re: find sources to build Handbook and FAQ for FreeBSD?

2012-04-21 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Antonio Olivares wrote: Does anyone know where the source(s) for the FreeBSD Handbook and FreeBSD FAQ are found? SGML source is in /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books

Re: find sources to build Handbook and FAQ for FreeBSD?

2012-04-20 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Antonio Olivares wrote: Does anyone know where the source(s) for the FreeBSD Handbook and FreeBSD FAQ are found? SGML source is in /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ and /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/, or other subdirectories under /usr/doc for other languages

Re: pcre library linking issues

2012-04-19 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Lars Eighner wrote: Create a symbolic link in the library so libpcre.so.0 points to libpcre.so.1 Thank you, this worked. It's a temporary measure, so rebuild everything that wants the old library, then remove

Re: mounting ext2fs

2012-04-19 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, April 19, 2012 a las 08:29:52AM -0600, Warren Block escribió: On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Matthias Apitz wrote: the problem with (this) cardreader seems to be that the card must already inserted at boot time; a later switch to another

Re: mounting ext2fs

2012-04-19 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Matthias Apitz wrote: the problem with (this) cardreader seems to be that the card must already inserted at boot time; a later switch to another card, for example from a card with 'msdosfs' to a card with 'ext2fs', gives the problem in my first mail; don't know if this is a

Re: Intel turbo mode support

2012-04-13 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Florian Unglaub wrote: I tried it with your powerd flags and the performance_cpu_freq setting on HIGH, but still the maximum freq_levels entry is 2800. How far should it go, then? The highest speed will be one

Re: Intel turbo mode support

2012-04-12 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Florian Unglaub wrote: I've stumbled upon http://goo.gl/Aq6Vd in the freebsd-current mailling list and started investigating if turbo mode is working on my i7 860 here. The CPU stock frequency is 2.8GHZ which is the maximum that dev.cpu.0.freq_levels reports (powerd is ena

Re: problem with Xorg

2012-04-09 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 04/09/12 21:38, Bernt Hansson wrote: 4. What does Xorg -configure produce? No idea, haven't tried it. Using HAL. Given your previous answers, I'd say you _have_ to run it. Then the last option I offered _will_ work. You need to force it to use vesa and

Re: Upgrade to 9.0 - Mount to root failed..

2012-04-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012, Airoso?icz fb. wrote: It's starting to make sense now.. Mounting ufs:/dev/ad*a*2s1a i.o. from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a simply doesn't work because as I've put in my original post with # ls -l /dev/ad* it doesn't exist.. Only ad2,ad2s1 & ad2s1a do.. ada device numbering is relative,

Re: using clang (was: Re: ps, clang and make variables)

2012-04-01 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:11:29 -0500 "Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 12:29:45 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: Have you tried clang with ccache? Any tricks? No, I haven't tried that. Actually, I don't be

Re: using clang (was: Re: ps, clang and make variables)

2012-04-01 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: I can well understand your hesitation. I didn't jump on the clang bandwagon for a good while myself, either. But, from examining and comparing clang's assembly language output against gcc's, it does seem pretty apparent that clang produces some pre

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-30 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Karel Miklav wrote: Could you please recommend me a home printer that works nicely with FreeBSD? HP inkjets aren't that bad, FreeBSD drivers are allright, but I'd like to shift towards some kind of PostScript laser. Xerox Phaser 6500 looks nice, but I can not economically

Re: question regarding geom labels

2012-03-30 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Alexander Best wrote: i have a question regarding a label for a swap partition. when should i do the labeling? after or before creating the partition scheme? when i label before creating the partition scheme, likes this: glabel label -v swap /dev/da0 gpart create -s GPT /d

Re: need info builing ports properly

2012-03-28 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, icemac wrote: I wasn't after fiddling or optimizing much and just want to to build ports i need and have them as reliable and stable as possibile, but i misunderstood the function of that setting in make.conf. I actually had thought that that was required and in turn assu

Re: need info builing ports properly

2012-03-28 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, icemac wrote: I only ever had this option set CFLAGS= -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe Setting that in make.conf is counterproductive. First, those are the defaults, so they don't improve anything. Second, that overrides settings made elsewhere. Consider a port like G

Re: Wireless PCI card

2012-03-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Harald Weis wrote: Is this one supported ? Réseau Carte PCI D-LINK PCI wifi N 300Mbps I just realize, this is "N" protocol again. "N" cards are backwards compatible with 802.11g.___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Wireless PCI card

2012-03-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Harald Weis wrote: Is this one supported ? Réseau Carte PCI D-LINK PCI wifi N 300Mbps According to the Newegg comments, that has an Atheros 5008 chipset: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127218 Make sure that's the same card. Also, be aware that D

Re: Wireless PCI card

2012-03-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Harald Weis wrote: Could someone please tell me whether the following card is supported by 8.2-RELEASE-p3 (a card available in France) ? Carte PCI Wifi-N Essential TEW-643PI, 300 Mbps, TrendNet That's a Realtek 8190 chipset. There is no native driver at present, ndisgen

Re: Moved drives ...

2012-03-15 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Arthur Chance writes: I'll second that remark on labelling filesystems. My life has become much easier since I did all mine - the 8.2->9.0 disk naming switch from /dev/ad to /dev/ada had absolutely no effect. Take a look at Warren Block's excellent

Re: disk labels (was: Re: fixating USB Storage)

2012-02-29 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 February 2012 10:33, Robert Huff wrote: Warren Block writes:  >    I have a disk - ad1 - with a partition - p2 - that was  > (obviously) created by gpart ... but no label was attached.  >    Can I add a label to that partition lat

Re: disk labels (was: Re: fixating USB Storage)

2012-02-29 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Warren Block writes: >I have a disk - ad1 - with a partition - p2 - that was > (obviously) created by gpart ... but no label was attached. >Can I add a label to that partition later? "man gpart" only > shows a labe

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-29 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Polytropon writes: Label the drives and use labels instead of device names. Get some inspiration from Warren's excellent article here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html Good piece, but it doesn't explicitly cover one

Re: VBox network boot

2012-02-28 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 02/29/12 03:04, Carl Johnson wrote: Warren Block writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network booting

Re: VBox network boot

2012-02-28 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Carl Johnson wrote: Warren Block writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network booting in VBox on FBSD host? To PXE-boot

Re: VBox network boot

2012-02-28 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network booting in VBox on FBSD host? To PXE-boot a VM guest, set networking to to Bridged and use the PCnet-PCI II (Am79C970A)

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-26 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote: I don't know that I can add anything to the cups discussion here, but I understand you'd rather use lpr anyway. You are aware that the printer will only speak splix the samsung universal driver language? S

Re: 8.3-BETA1 installation problem

2012-02-24 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Omer Faruk SEN wrote: Already done that but still habe the same issue. I can dd and sysctl but after installing without using W at disk label screen still no luck. I have also done sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 on fixit and restarted installation but still getting the same

Re: 8.3-BETA1 installation problem

2012-02-22 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Omer Faruk SEN wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.3-BETA1 to a system with ssd disk recognized as ad6. At fixit mode i can dd device but at installer (sysinstall) when I configured disk and using "w" installer is unable to format devices stating that "Unable to find de

Re: Info and questions about Brother[tm] multifunction machine

2012-02-22 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message <4f44e576.5000...@ifdnrg.com>, Paul Macdonald 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 onl

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