Re: In search of the ultimate .muttrc

According to Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: here's mine. i'm not sure it will be of any use for you, stuff like this is purely matter of taste and habit. parts were stripped for privacy reasons. How about dotfiles.com ?? Regards, web... -- William Bulley

short-changed on SD card?

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Re: short-changed on SD card?

bugs me... I believe that FAT16 is capable of addressing a 2.0 GB disk drive, yes? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: short-changed on SD card?

According to Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net on Mon, 02/02/09 at 12:46: On Monday 02 February 2009 07:52:44 William Bulley wrote: Recently purchased a brand new 2.0 GB secure digital (SD) card. When I plugged this into a USB dongle and plugged the USB dongle into an available

Re: short-changed on SD card?

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Re: short-changed on SD card?

cards with false capacities bought on ebay. This SD card was purchased from a reputable firm in New York whose name you would recognize were I to mention it. I have had nothing but good experiences buying from them in the past (many years four). Regards, web... -- William Bulley

Re: short-changed on SD card?

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Re: short-changed on SD card?

. Make sure you write on the right device! So you don't think the bad card reader suggestion is relevant? I will also try this approach. Thanks for all the feedback. Now, I've got some avenues of testing to work through. Later... Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w

fatal error from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk

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confounding finding in print/cups-base (CUPS 1.4.2)

Kerberos support in CUPS 1.4.2 ?? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template -| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

cannot build GIMP 2.6.8-1 on 8.0-STABLE

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Re: cannot build GIMP 2.6.8-1 on 8.0-STABLE

, the help was very outdated anyway. Don't know why the webkit-gtk2 build dies, though. Thanks. That suggestion allowed me to build the GIMP successfully. Although I still don't know why the GIMP depends on gnome-keyring... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w

Re: vi question

(column zero) Enter this sequence: 2dw (the line will disappear) Enter this sequence: 100P (voila!) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

to telling potential customers details about their newer computers. I think yes. At least in my case. I have a T500 and it came with both integrated Intel video plus an additional ATI mini-card. I don't recall if there was an Nvidia video choice. Regards, web... -- William Bulley

CUPS in ports (e.g., v1.4.3) --disable-gssapi WHY??

(to get a ticket granting ticket for printing). Why is this the case? Can someone elaborate on this, or point me to the correct forum to get an answer? Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

system upgrade introduced oddball apache error...

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can't build graphics/xfig-3.2.5b on 8.2-STABLE nor databases/p5-DBD-Oracle with lang/perl5.14

apache2 (2.2.19) with mod_perl2 (2.0.5). Those problems also went away once I rebuilt my ports starting with Perl 5.12.3 version. This makes me suspect Perl 5.14 changes or the effect those changes have had on other ports in the ports tree. Regards, web... -- William Bulley

Re: Repeatable X lockups

) of complete ports tree on either 24 Apr or 25 Apr - so approximately the same timeframe as you. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use

Thinkpad audio question

, but we have not been able to suss out what the problem is. He and I have been running FreeBSD for over a decade, so we are not clueless, but this laptop audio weirdness has us stumped. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: Thinkpad audio question

. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template -| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Thinkpad audio question

with the above in hand, I just may be able to make changes similar to what you have shown above provided I can make sense of the above verbose output. Thanks for all your help. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: Thinkpad audio question

? I do hate just copying something without knowing what the heck it means -- just the pedantic engineer in me, I reckon... :-) The snd_hda(4) man page is not very helpful in explaining what your four hints would do for my T500 problem, but I guess it is worth a try. Regards, web... -- William

Re: Thinkpad audio question

! But no thanks -- because I got it to work with your T400 hints! :-) You have been most helpful and I really appreciate it. I wonder just who came up with those in the first place? :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: Thinkpad audio question

. Helping others is a side benefit. It isn't for me that I am doing this. It is to help others - really. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: Thinkpad audio question

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where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today. This defaults to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall. This process gave me an error, but I'm not sure in which forum to discuss this problem/error. Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

According to Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk on Fri, 11/18/11 at 17:41: On 18/11/2011 21:27, William Bulley wrote: I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today. This defaults to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall. This process gave me an error, but I'm

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

or unable to uncompress message. Can't recall the exact error now some hours later... :-( So the extraction step failed the first file, and I never made it to the Post-Installation phase, sigh... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

4 GB is insufficient for /var? Since it seems to be complaining about not being able to write to var/. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

:) Thanks again. I think sysinstall is excellent and should be retained. I will try the bootonly approach _with_ sysinstall and see if I can get 9.0RC2 loaded properly. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

to RC2 in all the distribution places. This convinced me to burn a new DVD (against the RC2 ISO) but then I got hammered by the not-ready-for-prime-time bsdintall program... :-( Thanks again. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

and uncompressed regularly, or compressed and usually never touched again, it's worth thinking about what's the best balance of resources. Thanks for that explanation! :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

relative to that mountpoint. Well, now that is interesting! I hadn't thought of that possibility... Thanks again for your reply. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

will try using manual and see what happens I did not try guided. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template -| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

to show you... ;^) The above section is missing from my 8.2-STABLE platform tar(1) man page. The whole problem is my trying to get there from here - which was what started this thread... :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

on this laptop. Please advise. Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template -| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

this time. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template -| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

. I am going to try to avoid using bsdinstall like the plague and I advise others to do likewise, at least until it becomes more mature. It seems to me that the inclusion of the bsdinstall program as the default installer in 9.0 is illadvised at best. Regards, web... -- William Bulley

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 390, Issue 3

it was ready for prime time. I would not normally have done this, but there were extenuating circumstances that required the attempt. Thanks again. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

failure building www/webkit-gtk2 on 8.2-STABLE

and how I can correct it? Can it be that this port does not build correctly on AMD hardware? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: failure building www/webkit-gtk2 on 8.2-STABLE

According to Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com on Wed, 11/30/11 at 16:12: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Nov 30 09:14:56 2011 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:12:23 -0500 From: William Bulley w...@umich.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: gn...@freebsd.org Subject

Re: failure building www/webkit-gtk2 on 8.2-STABLE

have been able to avoid this problem? Thanks. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template -| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Xorg 7.5 and OpenMotif: mouse stuck in box

(I tried to recompile xorg today after a port tree update). Is manually compiling Xorg the only solution right now? thanks in advance for any advice giuseppe This is what I found recently. Hope this helps you. - Forwarded message from William Bulley w...@umich.edu

Re: Xorg 7.5 and OpenMotif: mouse stuck in box

mentioned (about six or so) small source code patches. I then re-made the port and re-installed the port. After it tested successfully, I reported my results to the -questions list in case it would help others. YMMV. And good luck! Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email

Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

/poppler.h and they are all identical. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template -| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

According to Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org on Thu, 01/27/11 at 11:04: William Bulley w...@umich.edu writes: Everything up to this point builds okay. Then this happens: Making all in common gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/graphics/gimp-app/work/gimp

Re: Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

and instead should be: -I/usr/local/include/poppler/glib ?? Thanks for all the suggestions, but I am still in a pickle... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

/poppler and also graphics/gimp (using make install) but I still get the same error. :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template -| ___ freebsd

Re: Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

in this directory: /usr/ports/graphics/poppler/work/poppler-0.14.5/glib/ After I copied them to /usr/local/include/poppler/glib/ (having made it with mkdir) I was successfully able to build the Gimp. All this is very strange... Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w

boot manager oddity (two IDE drives, two o/s)

recovery (or diagnostic?) slice, I believe. I have looked in the Handbook to no avail. Any ideas? Help! Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

odd HP 1320 printer behaviour...

with this behaviour, but it seems very odd. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: odd HP 1320 printer behaviour...

7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode ulpt0: offline ulpt0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 5) disconnected ulpt0: detached ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1320 series, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 5, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL

Re: odd HP 1320 printer behaviour...

print/enscript-letter does the rest for me (plain text or ASCII files). Depending on what processing you do to the source file, you may find utilities like /usr/ports/print/enscript useful. I have been using enscript for about twenty years now... :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley

WPA and EAP-TTLS oddity

: Failed to validate the user. =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= This one has me stumped. :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: thankee, thankee!

for Perl? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports, src, etc. for 7.0-REL?

... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports, src, etc. for 7.0-REL?

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help for a wounded disk drive...

. I hope I don't have to resort to using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

problems with libglade2...

: i386, Athlon, i686 What am I missing? What steps (short of tossing the whole idea out) should I take to successfully run the Linux binary foobah? Thanks. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

Re: dbus/hal in freebsd 7.2 hangs X11

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CUPS between systems

1.3.10 in the Fall of 2009, I did have Kerberos support (via GSSAPI) and I was able to talk directly to the network printer. Does anyone have any suggestions for me to consider trying? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

, that came with. It might be a problem with hald(8), but again, I don't know how to debug this. Any help with this very odd bug would be greatly appreciated. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

According to jhell jh...@dataix.net on Wed, 08/25/10 at 09:24: On 08/25/2010 07:38, William Bulley wrote: For years I have run Open-Motif on FreeBSD without issue. I use a USB keyboard and a USB three button mouse attached to a Dell Optiplex 960. This combination has worked fine

Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

knew how to use hald, how would that solve my problem of the disappearing mouse pointer and consequent loss of functionality of my window manager? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

was hoping someone in FreeBSD-land would have some suggestions. I have heard that contacting the Xorg developers may not result in a timely resolution. I greatly appreciate the comments on -questions to date. Thanks guys. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu

Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

a default. So removing or commenting that section would let xorg-server use hald. I don't know if this will affect your window manager. Probably not, but worth testing. Did that. Made that change. No joy... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72

SOLVED: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

See below for details of solution. - Forwarded message from William Bulley w...@umich.edu - To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: William Bulley w...@umich.edu Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:38:34 -0400 Subject: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

9.1-STABLE with xterm-292 oddity

be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template -| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

[SOLVED] Re: www/179397: I used mouse focus in open-motif and shift-click3 to iconify xterms, doing so causes cursor to disappear and mouse is unusable!

other window managers such as FVWM which may be why this patch was overlooked. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template -| ___ freebsd-questions