Touch screen support in 9 Release
Hello, My employer is going to replace my aging laptop soon. We've always used Macs at work but I'd kinda like to get back to FreeBSD. His criteria are Windows 8 and a touch screen, mine is decent FreeBSD support. So, what is the state of support for touch screens at the moment? Most if the information I can find is from four or five years ago, and I can't seem to find out what's going on now. And, any recommendations for a machine? I'd be using it primarily for web development. Thanks for your help, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
libtool missing library?
Hello, I'm trying to compile kftpgrabber from source, and get this when I make: /bin/bash ../../../../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -W -Wpoi nter-arith -O2 -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQ T_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION-o libkftpinterfaces.la -rpath /usr/lo cal/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -version-info 0:0:0 -no-undefined kftpbookmarkimportplugin.lo-lkparts libtool: link: cannot find the library `' *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/kftpgrabber-0.8.0-alpha2/kftpgrabber/src/misc/interfaces. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/kftpgrabber-0.8.0-alpha2/kftpgrabber/src/misc. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/kftpgrabber-0.8.0-alpha2/kftpgrabber/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/kftpgrabber-0.8.0-alpha2/kftpgrabber. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/kftpgrabber-0.8.0-alpha2. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/kftpgrabber-0.8.0-alpha2. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've tried moving the libtool which comes with the source and linking to /usr/local/bin/libtool instead, then doing make clean; then the error changes: if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I./.. -I./../engine -I./../misc/interfaces -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_THREAD_SAFE -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -O2 -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -MT configbase.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/configbase.Tpo -c -o configbase.o configbase.cpp; then mv -f .deps/configbase.Tpo .deps/configbase.Po; else rm -f .deps/configbase.Tpo; exit 1; fi configbase.cpp: In member function `void KFTPCore::ConfigBase::postInit()': configbase.cpp:65: error: `Config' has not been declared configbase.cpp:65: error: `downloadActions' was not declared in this scope configbase.cpp:68: error: `Config' has not been declared configbase.cpp:68: error: `uploadActions' was not declared in this scope configbase.cpp:71: error: `Config' has not been declared configbase.cpp:71: error: `fxpActions' was not declared in this scope configbase.cpp:65: warning: unused variable 'downloadActions' configbase.cpp:68: warning: unused variable 'uploadActions' configbase.cpp:71: warning: unused variable 'fxpActions' configbase.cpp: In member function `void KFTPCore::ConfigBase::saveConfig()': configbase.cpp:80: error: `Config' has not been declared configbase.cpp:80: error: `setDownloadActions' was not declared in this scope configbase.cpp:83: error: `Config' has not been declared configbase.cpp:83: error: `setUploadActions' was not declared in this scope configbase.cpp:86: error: `Config' has not been declared configbase.cpp:86: error: `setFxpActions' was not declared in this scope configbase.cpp:89: error: `Config' has not been declared configbase.cpp:89: error: `setSize' was not declared in this scope configbase.cpp:90: error: `Config' has not been declared configbase.cpp:90: error: `setPosition' was not declared in this scope configbase.cpp:80: warning: unused variable 'setDownloadActions' configbase.cpp:83: warning: unused variable 'setUploadActions' configbase.cpp:86: warning: unused variable 'setFxpActions' configbase.cpp:89: warning: unused variable 'setSize' configbase.cpp:90: warning: unused variable 'setPosition' configbase.cpp: In member function `char KFTPCore::ConfigBase::ftpMode(const QString)': configbase.cpp:116: error: `Config' has not been declared configbase.cpp:116: error: `asciiList' was not declared in this scope configbase.cpp:116: warning: unused variable 'asciiList' *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/kftpgrabber-0.8.0-alpha2/kftpgrabber/src/misc. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/kftpgrabber-0.8.0-alpha2/kftpgrabber/src/misc. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/kftpgrabber-0.8.0-alpha2/kftpgrabber/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/kftpgrabber-0.8.0-alpha2/kftpgrabber. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/kftpgrabber-0.8.0-alpha2. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/kftpgrabber-0.8.0-alpha2. [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's more, of course, but that's how it ends. Has anyone got a clue? I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE If anyone's got a reply, could they cc to me, as I get the digest and sometimes miss things in amongst all the other posts! Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libtool can't find a library
Hello, I've googled this, but only manage to come up with the same question, never an answer! I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, and trying to compile kftpgrabber (there seems to be a bug in the version that's in the ports) and I get this error: libtool: link: cannot find the library `' (That's the whole line, it really does end with a back-tick and a single quote). I don't know where to begin with this since google has let me down, so I'd really appreciate some help! Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?
On Friday 28 April 2006 10:25, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Try sysutils/smartmontools or a disk checker from the disk manufacturer. Most provide one. smartmontools seems to confirm there's nothing wrong with the disk: smartctl version 5.33 [i386-portbld-freebsd6.1] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted without error 00% 3069 - # 2 Extended offlineCompleted without error 00% 3064 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 492 - # 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - Any more ideas? Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?
On Monday 01 May 2006 12:28, Nick Withers wrote: Understandably, too. Other files are served fine, to your knowledge? I think something a little like it has happened before - but I was in a real rush to meet a deadline and didn't have time to take notice of the circumstances. At the moment no other files are a problem. Maybe the NIC? Now I'm really starting to stab in the dark! Do you mean the network card? Wow, that does seem desperate! But clutching at straws... how would I go about checking it? But since it's only one file that this is happening to I'm inclined to look for the problem in something about the file. That's why I mentioned the long complicated journey it's been on in my first message - osx, freebsd, winnt, solaris and back again via ethernet, wireless, usb flash, ftp... Running out of ideas and the will to live ;-) Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 13:22, Bill Moran wrote: memtest86 is also available as a bootable CD. So it is How long did you run it for? I don't trust the results unless I let it run for at least 8 hours. _Any_ errors are bad, especially on a server. The bootable versions (CD or floppy) are better because they can test more of the machine's memory. 7:44 last night with no errors. Mem-map was set to 'auto' - when I set it to 'all' the screen immediately filled with errors and 'probe' froze the machine instantly. I think (hope?) these failures represent something odd, but not broken, in my laptop's bios rather than a real memory error, so I'm provisionally eliminating memory failure as the cause of my file corruption. Any idea where I go from here? That file really does change. Could it be a hard disk problem on the exact spot where this file is? is fsck my friend in this instance? I'll go and rtfm right now... Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:46, Thomas Ludwig wrote: If the problem is Apache, though, it doesn't explain the other problems I've been having, like the corrupted ftp uploads. Perhaps they are unrelated? Or perhaps Apache is not the problem? I recommend checking your hardware. I had a similar problem with huge files, although unrelated to Apache. Files bigger than ~2GB would *seem* to be corrupted. I suspect its the hard disk drive, because lowering the ATA bus speed (atacontrol mode ad0 UDMA33) made this problem go away (the drive is a SAMSUNG SP1614N TM100-24). This problem occurred with different motherboard chipsets and different versions of FreeBSD (5-stable, 6-PRERELEASE), so I really think it is the hard disk drive. Thanks very much. In my case the files involved are very small, and it seems to be only one file at the moment, so I am hold out the hope that you're wrong - but I'll certainly check in case you're right. Could anyone give me a hint as to how to get started checking the hardware? It's a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. I really don't have the foggiest idea what to look for or what to check - I've never had any problems with it before. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 10:24, Nick Withers wrote: On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:08:58 + Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone give me a hint as to how to get started checking the hardware? It's a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. I really don't have the foggiest idea what to look for or what to check - I've never had any problems with it before. You might want to have a gander at Memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/, /usr/ports/sysutils/memtest86) for memory testing, I reckon this should be your first port of call. Thanks a lot for the advice. Unfortunately I can't run it as I have no floppy drive (unless there's another way? I seem to remember it's possible to make a bootable usb flash drive...). I ran sysutils/memtest with no errors, for whatever that's worth. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?
On Friday 21 April 2006 00:31, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:17:47AM +, Ben Paley wrote: Hello, I have Apache 2 running on FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE on a laptop on a small office lan. Whenever one of the other machines (mostly Macs) makes a request for a certain page on my machine, it is delivered succesfully but the file itself is absolutely scrambled beyond recognition into a binary file. Subsequent requests rescramble it into a different but equally nonsense binary. I've looked with a binary editor and it really is completely messed up. I can restore the file from a good archive copy, but every time the same thing happens. The file was originally created on a mac by Flash (it's a 1.1k html file which just embeds a flash movie). Recently I copied it to and from a Solaris box via ftp from an Windows NT machine (although it wasn't opened afaik - a long story, clearly, which also involves a usb flash drive...). Anyone have any ideas? The file itself is inconsequential, but the fact of such blatant and relentless data corruption is very worrying to me! I don't know if it's the file or my system or some combination... I'd really appreciate some advice, I've been staring at it for two days and I'm starting to bite my nails... How about setting the permission so that the file can not be changed. Then access the file and see if a process complains about not being able to change the file? P.S. I find it hard to beleave apache2 does this. I run apache2 myself and don't have this. I've set the permissions to 444 and I'm still seeing the same corruption, so it must be something running as root, or something quite low level. No console messages and I don't really know where to look for error logs - I think you're right and it's not apache. I've started to notice some other strange corruptions - some php files seem to become binary on a remote machine, even though my local copies are fine. Perhaps it's the server... but we've never had this trouble before, and it seems a little too much like what's happening on my machine to be a coincidence. One file I tried uploading with two different gui ftp clients and via command line, in ascii, binary and auto mode, and again the same thing happened each time - my browser complained of unknown ascii characters and kate (text editor) told me it was a binary file even though it looked ok. I tried changing the encoding and that made no difference. I am actually quite worried now. There seems to be something holding all these occurences together, but I can't quite work out what it is. Does anyone have any ideas where to look? I'd really appreciate it! Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 17:19, Dominique Goncalves wrote: What version of apache are you using? apache-2.0.55_4 I've already see corruption file when I was tried to share xml podcast between my FreeBSD 6.1 and Sony PSP, with Apache 2.2.0 $ ls -l test.xml -r--r--r-- 1 dom dom 5725 Mar 11 17:47 test.xml before download $ md5 test.xml MD5 (test.xml) = 25ed4336e8906e64bd05ebea990d29a0 after download $ md5 test.xml MD5 (test.xml) = ef0918bc4f7aa323eb6c41768092488e And after each access the MD5sum change ... This sounds exactly like what is happening to me. Does it happen to every file, or just a few? Or just one? If the problem is Apache, though, it doesn't explain the other problems I've been having, like the corrupted ftp uploads. Perhaps they are unrelated? Or perhaps Apache is not the problem? Or maybe I've been cursed for having an operating system of which the logo is a devil ;-) Try to ask directly on the freebsd-apache mailing list. OK, I'll try that too, thanks for the tip. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Horrible: Apache corrupting files?
Hello, I have Apache 2 running on FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE on a laptop on a small office lan. Whenever one of the other machines (mostly Macs) makes a request for a certain page on my machine, it is delivered succesfully but the file itself is absolutely scrambled beyond recognition into a binary file. Subsequent requests rescramble it into a different but equally nonsense binary. I've looked with a binary editor and it really is completely messed up. I can restore the file from a good archive copy, but every time the same thing happens. The file was originally created on a mac by Flash (it's a 1.1k html file which just embeds a flash movie). Recently I copied it to and from a Solaris box via ftp from an Windows NT machine (although it wasn't opened afaik - a long story, clearly, which also involves a usb flash drive...). Anyone have any ideas? The file itself is inconsequential, but the fact of such blatant and relentless data corruption is very worrying to me! I don't know if it's the file or my system or some combination... I'd really appreciate some advice, I've been staring at it for two days and I'm starting to bite my nails... Thanks a lot, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's that filesystem for a usb flash drive?
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Saul Mena Avila wrote: Hello!. I've been trying to mount my flash memory but it just doesn't let me. I use (as root): mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0 /flash try 'msdos' instead of 'msdosfs' Are you sure that /dev/ad0 is actually your flash device? That doesn't look right to me. What is the physical interface to your flash memory? That is, is it USB, a PCMCIA card, or what? My usb flash drives always show up as da devices, not ad. Have a look in /dev to see what nodes are actually there, and especially look at tty0 when you plug the drive in - you should get an informative console message and perhaps find its da1 or da2 even (depending on what other usb devices are attached, I think). Also you may need to mount a slice, like da0s1, as I do. In summary, the command which works for me is: # mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /flash Good luck, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar segmentation fault
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:12, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: me$ pkg_info | grep tar gtar-1.15.1_1 GNU version of the traditional tar archiver You're obviously not *using* gnu tar, because you would be getting errors on the -l option if you were. Well, I haven't got round to debugging bsdtar (it compiles without warning using 'make' in /usr/src/usr.bin/tar/), but it turns out gtar works fine, using -h instead of -L . Thanks very much to both of you for pointing me towards a solution. Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar segmentation fault
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:12, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry. left off some information that might come in handy! me$ uname -srm FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE i386 me$ pkg_info | grep tar gtar-1.15.1_1 GNU version of the traditional tar archiver startup-notification-0.8_1 Library that supports startup notification spec from freede You're obviously not *using* gnu tar, because you would be getting errors on the -l option if you were. Yup, looks like I'm using bsdtar ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar segmentation fault
From: Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: tar segmentation fault To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now that you know which tar you're using, :-) time to drag out the standard debugging process for segmentation faults. It's come to that, has it? Oh well... thanks very much for your help, I'll be back in touch with more information soon! Thanks again, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tar segmentation fault
Hello, I want to backup certain parts of my system regularly, so I made a directory which reflects the filesystem: backup/ etc/ - link to /etc usr/ home/ me/ somefile - link to some specific file in my home directory public_html/ various_links_to/ - directories_which/ - really_exist_in_my/ - public_html/ - Basically it's a collection of symlinks to stuff I want backed up. Then I run tar -cLvy -f /usr/home/me/backup/backup.tar.bz2 /usr/home/me/backup/source/ When source/usr/home/me/public_html is empty then it runs fine. But when I put any links in, tar dies with a segmentation fault. Has anyone got any ideas why? Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar segmentation fault
Sorry. left off some information that might come in handy! me$ uname -srm FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE i386 me$ pkg_info | grep tar gtar-1.15.1_1 GNU version of the traditional tar archiver startup-notification-0.8_1 Library that supports startup notification spec from freede me$ Thanks, Ben tar -cLvy -f /usr/home/me/backup/backup.tar.bz2 /usr/home/me/backup/source/ When source/usr/home/me/public_html is empty then it runs fine. But when I put any links in, tar dies with a segmentation fault. Has anyone got any ideas why? Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 JDK issue
I know there has been a lot of activity on the mailing lists these days regarding JDK and OOo. From what I could gather, most of it is regarding keeping it working after the update of JDK14. In any event, I was installing OOo-2.0 for the first time, and the build failed. The error message is below and involves JDK-1.4. I figured that this would either be fixable or it would give additional information that could lead to solving some of the previously mentioned problems on the list. Thank you all for your assistance. I am running FreeBSD 6.0- STABLE. A part of my script nuked the output after it failed, so I only have the output from script. My googling led me to believe that it's to do with a problem in jdk patchset 8 for freebsd. Ive had exactly the same problem and ended up installing vi pkg_add :-( Seems like the best solution would be to let it use jdk15, but it doesn't seem to want to play. Good luck, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 JDK issue
On Friday 10 February 2006 13:04, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Seems like the best solution would be to let it use jdk15, but it doesn't seem to want to play. Had same build failure as OP, now when i try the pkg from ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/2.0.1/FreeBSD6/ i get pkg_add OOo_2.0.1_FreeBSD60Intel_install_en-US.tbz pkg_add: could not find package openssl-beta-0.9.8a ! How safe is it to install openssl-beta-0.9.8a? Does it not conflict with the base openssl? It does conflict. I deinstalled openssl and installed openssl-beta until I'd installed OO, then got rid of openssl-beta and reinstalled openssl! It worked fine, although i don't know what the security inplications of that might be, if any. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xine and missing libdpstk
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 10:05, Ariff Abdullah wrote: Am I missing something? /usr/ports/UPDATING seems to be talking about installed ports that complain at run time about missing libraries - that isn't the problem here. The problem with libxine is that it won't compile in the first place without libdpstk, so to reinstall as advised is impossible. If you have ImageMagick or transcode installed, recompile that first. Both of them - and your solution works perfectly, thanks very much! Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xine and missing libdpstk
Am 05.02.2006 um 06:43 schrieb Gary Kline: I'm trying to build xine and find troubles with a missing library, libdpstk. I'm clueless re this DPS lib. Anybody? /usr/ports/UPDATING entry 20060126 regards tilman Am I missing something? /usr/ports/UPDATING seems to be talking about installed ports that complain at run time about missing libraries - that isn't the problem here. The problem with libxine is that it won't compile in the first place without libdpstk, so to reinstall as advised is impossible. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
Hello, Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop? There's no /dev/sda at the moment. I can't seem to find out how the card connects internally - neither usb nor scsi look very likely... Any more ideas? Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Monday 05 September 2005 11:04, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop? Is there anything in /var/log/messages? Not so far as I can see, nor in dmesg If not, try 'pciconf -lv', $ pciconf -lv snip/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:2: class=0x080501 card=0x01881028 chip=0x08221180 rev=0x17 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' device = 'SD Bus Host Adapter' class= base peripheral Is that it? 'usbdevs just four empty sockets there and 'camcontrol devlist -v' Nothing there apart from the optical drive. to see if it is on the PCI, USB or SCSI bus respectively. So, PCI then? How do I go about my kernel config to get it detected? If you can't get it to work, the SanDisk SDDR-93 sd card reader is supposed to work with Linux, so using it with FreeBSD should be possible. I can get to the camera with its cable, though it's a bit slow - I just wanted the convenience of using the built-in reader, since it's there! Thanks a lot for your advice ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Monday 05 September 2005 11:50, Roland Smith wrote: $ pciconf -lv snip/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:2: class=0x080501 card=0x01881028 chip=0x08221180 rev=0x17 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' device = 'SD Bus Host Adapter' class= base peripheral Is that it? I think so. According to the following page, http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/insp6000/p-proc.html#sd it is a Ricoh R5c576A chip. Looking at the Ricoh page for this chip, http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/pcc/5c576a/ there seems to be no programming info available. AFAICT, there is no Linux driver either, but someone seems to be working on it: http://list.drzeus.cx/pipermail/wbsd-devel/2005-March/000261.html You could try contacting this person to see how far his efforts have come, and who the FreeBSD kernel developer is who is working on this. Thanks a lot for your advice - I shall follow it, even if it is slightly dispiriting. Perhaps I should learn C properly and start writing some drivers... :-) Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
...PS - Thanks not just for your advice, but for putting in the effort to find this stuff out - I wouldn't have known where to start! Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Monday 05 September 2005 17:03, Roland Smith wrote: Thanks a lot for your advice - I shall follow it, even if it is slightly dispiriting. Perhaps I should learn C properly and start writing some drivers... :-) Not that I want to discourage you, but that seems like a tall order. Apart from knowing C, you'd have to get familiar with the FreeBSD kernel and writing device drivers. I'm not entirely serious - that is, it's certainly the Right Thing To Do, but I know my limitations as a programmer! Perhaps I'll start with something simpler. If you are serious about writing a driver, I would recommend reading The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System by McKusick and Neville-Neil. Good advice, once again! Thanks very much. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: missing /dev/sequencer and /dev/midi under 5.4
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 14:59, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess I need to enable midi in the kernel, but what device / options? I'm not sure that MIDI is supported by the kernel these days. Does anyone know for sure? Not me, that's certain. I guess another approach is to put something in /boot/loader.conf... but what? [EMAIL PROTECTED] locate snd | grep mid [EMAIL PROTECTED] locate snd | grep seq [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't look too good, does it? Well, I shall try audio/xmms-midi - from what I can gather, it plays midi files through whatever xmms normally uses, which will do, I suppose! Thanks a lot for your help, I really appreciate a reply even if it's to let me know not to bother! ;-) Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
missing /dev/sequencer and /dev/midi under 5.4
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 with a custom kernel on a Dell Inspiron 6000 - the Dell website only says SoundBlaster compatible for the sound card. Normal sound stuff works fine (though I can't hear the cd player, actually, now that I think of it...) but midi doesn't work: kmidi complains that /dev/sequencer is busy, but actually it doesn't exist, and neither does /dev/midi. I guess I need to enable midi in the kernel, but what device / options? device pcm device snd device seq device midi all give me unknown device errors at compile time: here's the relevent section of my kernel config file: device sound # generic sound driver: these added... device snd_ad1816 device snd_als4000 #device snd_au88x0 device snd_cmi device snd_cs4281 device snd_csa device snd_ds1 device snd_emu10k1 device snd_es137x device snd_ess device snd_fm801 device snd_gusc device snd_ich device snd_maestro device snd_maestro3 device snd_mss device snd_neomagic device snd_sb16 device snd_sb8 device snd_sbc device snd_solo device snd_t4dwave device snd_via8233 device snd_via82c686 device snd_vibes #device snd_vortex1 device snd_uaudio I'm sure I don't need all this stuff in there, but I haven't got round to experimenting with what I can take out. Could that be my problem? Thanks in anticipation for your help... Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rw access to ntfs
Hello, I'm running 5.4 on a dual boot machine with winxp. Here's the relevant line of /etc/fstab: /dev/ad0s2 /mntntfsrw 0 0 It mounts fine with no errors at boot time, but I seem to have read-only access. I've done a bit of googling about this and everything I find which mentions this is quite old, and all the replies seem to imply it should have been sorted by now. Any ideas? Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rw access to ntfs
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 13:22, Mantas Smelevicius wrote: writing into NTFS it is not officialy supported yet. on of the solutions - is to create some partition with FAT32 for example and use it. :-) Mantas, I had thought of that, but hoped there was a more elegant solution! Oh well, thanks for your help. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rw access to ntfs
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 16:40, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: * Alex Zbyslaw [2005-06-29 15:07 +0100] Perhaps you could ask Microsoft to provide support in Windows for accessing any kind of filesystem other than their own. ;-) http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ Will let you mount a ffs filesystem on Windows. Not sure how well tested it is, though I'll have a look... ...but frankly the very idea terrifies me. Let Winxp loose on my fbsd partition? shudders Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rw access to ntfs
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 19:29, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: ...but frankly the very idea terrifies me. Let Winxp loose on my fbsd partition? shudders Well, it's a sourceforge project, so it isn't by Microsoft. If you're concerned about data integrity, then you could try: 1) Mount only one shared FreeBSD partition using this software and 2) Make this partition on a separate disk slice (or even disk) from your regular system. It's either that or FAT32 (with no real concept of file ownership, file permissions, or ability to change times). Thanks a lot for this - I'll have a very careful go! Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash plugin
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 03:21, Eric Schuele wrote: Ben, Here's a link (back to the archives) that helped me out (firefox flash)... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1302736+0+/usr/local/www/db/tex t/2005/freebsd-stable/20050306.freebsd-stable HTH. Very much! linuxpluginwrapper has been broken for a while but i cvsupped last night and installed it this morning, copied the correct libmap.conf file from the installed examples and... Bob's your uncle, working flash in Mozilla and Firefox! It's not working in Opera or Konqueror yet, mind... but it didn't break realplayer in Konqueror which I was worried about! Thanks to everyone; i'll be trying out your suggestions for Konqueror later today. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash plugin
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 02:53, Alastair G. Hogge wrote: I used this: http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php for Konq-3.4.0. Fantastic, sorted! Just Opera to go now! Thanks a lot, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Flash plugin
Hello, First, sorry - I know there's a thread about this already, but I just noticed I had empty trash on exit ticked in my mail client (doh!), so I can't find it... I've got a brand new (1 week and a bit) install of 5.4-RELEASE, and I'm driving myself mad trying to get some flash content in some browser or other... I've got opera 8, mozilla 1.7 and firefox 1.0.4, and konqueror 3.4.0, and I would be _really_grateful for any help. Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc
On Friday 10 June 2005 19:50, Remington L wrote: It is also not officially supported by Xorg. I am told by the driver developer 6.8.3 will fully support it(hopefully eliminating the need for any VBIOS workaround) I think I'll wait till then... my system's working, and 6.8.3 won't be long. Thanks a lot, everyone. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc
On Thursday 09 June 2005 23:09, Remington L wrote: Correction, sorry for the previously post(I'm at work). The problem lies with the Intel VBIOS not reporting the correct resolution to Xorg. As a workaround you need to modify the VBIOS and use an updated i810 driver. Here is the Xorg i810 driver: http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/intel.html To modify the VBIOS please install and run sysutils/915resolution. Thank'll fix it! I shouldn't complain because it seems actually to be running at 1280x800 at last (at least, kde display manager tells me so, and Opera reports it using screen.availHeight and screen.availWidth!), but there are a couple of odd things going on... A) I ran 915resolution before doing all the things I did to get it working, resetting all of the 1280x1024 modes to 1280x800. But it only works on the memory copy of the VBIOS, and, indeed, this morning when I rebooted, and still now, 915resolution -l gives three modes at 1280x1024 and none at 1280x800... AND YET my screen is running happily at 1280x800! B) None of my attempts to use the i810 driver came to anything. If I added Chipset 915G I would get slightly different errors, but never a working screen (though interestingly I managed to get as far as hearing the KDE startup sound even when I couldn't see anything!). My current xorg.conf uses the generic vesa driver. So the two things that I was concentrating on - the VBIOS and the driver, turn out not to have been the real issues at all. Heaven knows *what* the real issues were... it all just goes to show that X configuration is black magic, and I could just as easily have waved a chicken at it for the same result, and probably quicker (though not as cheap, of course). If anyone is interested, I will be glad to send my xorg.conf, and logs and all the rest of it. Thank you all very much for your help! I may be none the wiser, but I am much happier! Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc
I'm running 5.4 on my shiny new dell inspiron 6000 - there are a few things yet to sort out, and one of them is X. Amazing. In winxp it runs at 1280x800, 16bit (I think, or 24? can't remember off-hand, i'd be happy with 8 for the moment!). And it seems I need the i810 Generic driver from xorg. You might need agp_load=YES in your /boot/loader.conf . See also http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html (Section 5.4.3.1). Thanks a lot - i think the agp thing may have helped. I compiled it in instead of loading it dynamically At the moment, I'm working with no xorg.conf at all! I get 800x600, not sure of colour depth. But I really want / need to take advantage of the full screen resolution. I understand I should set things up to run 915resolution on boot, to teach the vbios about 1280x800. But I've yet make or find an xorg.conf that even gives me a display. You may want to check /etc/X11/Xorg.0.log to see if any 1280x800 modes are recognized. If not, you may need to use 855patch: I think this is what 915resolution does for me. ModeLine 1280x800 71.0 1280 1328 1360 1440 800 802 808 823 Thanks for this. Use the i810 driver. Weirdly, although everyone says to use i810, I could only make it work with the vesa driver! Anyway, thanks a lot both of you - between you and some more googling I finally seem to have got it going! Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc
Hello, I'm running 5.4 on my shiny new dell inspiron 6000 - there are a few things yet to sort out, and one of them is X. Amazing. In winxp it runs at 1280x800, 16bit (I think, or 24? can't remember off-hand, i'd be happy with 8 for the moment!). And it seems I need the i810 Generic driver from xorg. At the moment, I'm working with no xorg.conf at all! I get 800x600, not sure of colour depth. But I really want / need to take advantage of the full screen resolution. I understand I should set things up to run 915resolution on boot, to teach the vbios about 1280x800. But I've yet make or find an xorg.conf that even gives me a display. Thanks a lot for any help! Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Setting hostname - fake and real
-Original Message- From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setting hostname - fake and real To: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not entirely sure I understand why you would want to use fake dns names. I don't especially want to use a fake name, I just don't have a real one to use... the machine I'm talking about is my home machine with dynamic IP Why not simply add an entry to /etc/hosts? Like I do to get a pretty name for logins from my XP machine: 192.168.0.6my-xp-machine.org - Mark Ok, what IP do I put? My dynamic IP in the real world (which is pretty static in practice), or something else? The address you've used in your example looks like my vmnet addresses. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting hostname - fake and real
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:03, Chris Hodgins wrote: You can simply use 127.0.0.1 in there. 127.0.0.1 localhost my-xp-machine.org I'll give that a go next! Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting hostname - fake and real
Hello, Is there an easy way to set a fake hostname in rc.conf which will let sendmail send mail to external domains? For ages I've had the line in rc.conf hostname=potato.fake_domain.net (not exactly, but you see what I mean...) and I've had no problems with it at all. Recently I've tried to set up sendmail, only so I can test php or perl scripts that send emails! Sending to localhost works fine, but mail to an external address is returned by the remote domain because it couldn't verify my domain. Very sensible, I could be a spammer. So I edited rc.conf to say hostname=potato.real_domain.net that is, I used the name of a real domain which is registered to me. The domain is hosted on the net, but AFAIK they don't have a machine called potato. Now apache won't start and I get weird errors in other things, like shutting down X even! Can anyone help? Thanks very much, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting hostname - fake and real
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not entirely sure I understand why you would want to use fake dns names. I don't especially want to use a fake name, I just don't have a real one to use... the machine I'm talking about is my home machine with dynamic IP - I know there are ways round this, but it hardly seems worth registering a domain for this machine when it's off more than half the time anyway! It won't really work properly and if testing scripts that send mail is the goal then a FQDN is probably a good idea. Do you control the DNS for your 'real' domain? It's hosted commercially. In practice I might be able to get the tech people there to do me a favour, but then again I've got this dynamic IP If so add your host potato and if possible get a reverse DNS entry to match. For apache and X edit /etc/hosts and put the real information there and your problems should go away. Thanks a lot, I'll give this a go. thinks/etc/hosts, of course, what a fool I am!/thinks If it doesn't work then maybe I'll find myself going down the route of registering another domain! Thanks again, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB Printer bafflement - ppd problem?
Hello all, I've an epson r300, and I'm trying to use cups. su-2.05b# lptest 20 5 /dev/ulpt0 works fine, though it doesn't eject the sheet at the end - I can pretty much live with sending my own form feed for the moment. GIMP prints fine too - epson r300 is on the list, and I use the command 'lpr', simple as that, but it'll print just as well if I use 'kprinter' as the command (depending on how that's set up). But nothing else seems to work. su-2.05b# lptest 20 5 | lpr just does a little 'reset' jiggle, but doesn't print anything. kprinter does the same (won't print a test page, and no other programs can print via it), so does open office... I've tried 3 different ppd files as the driver in kprinter and open office: 2 which I made with foomatic-ppdfile thus: foomatic-ppdfile -d gimp-print-ijs -p Epson-Stylus_Photo_R300 /usr/home/ben/epson_r300_gimpprintijs.ppd and foomatic-ppdfile -d gimp-print -p Epson-Stylus_Photo_R300 /usr/home/ben/epson_r300_gimp-print.ppd as well as the file which comes with the pips driver for this printer, ekspr300_310.ppd. No luck at all. I guess it's a ppd problem, but I can't think why GIMP can print and nothing else can - what does it know that nothing else does? Here's some info that might help: su-2.05b# uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sat Dec 18 20:09:01 UTC 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO i386 su-2.05b# su-2.05b# cat /etc/printcap # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the # /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file # will be lost. Epson|Epson Stylus Photo R300:rm=potato.hogsedge.net:rp=Epson: su-2.05b# su-2.05b# cat /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.22 # Written by cupsd on Tue Jan 4 19:57:57 2005 DefaultPrinter Epson Info Epson Stylus Photo R300 Location /dev/ulpt0 DeviceURI usb:/dev/ulpt0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 /Printer su-2.05b# su-2.05b# pkg_info | grep gimp gimp-2.2.0,1A GNU Image Manipulation Program gimp-print-4.2.7_1 GIMP Print Printer Driver su-2.05b# su-2.05b# pkg_info | grep cups cups-1.1.22.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: Metaport to install comple cups-base-1.1.22.0_1 The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, libs, daemons cups-lpr-1.1.22.0 The CUPS BSD and system V compatibility binaries (lp* comma cups-pstoraster-7.07_3 GNU Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS prin libgnomecups-0.1.14,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration su-2.05b# su-2.05b# pkg_info | grep pips pips-spr300_310-2.6.2 Photo Image Print System for Linux --- EPSON Stylus Photo R su-2.05b# Any ideas? Thanks a lot, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cd bake oven - weird error
Hello, I'm trying to use cdbakeoven-1.8.9_6 under FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sat Dec 18 20:09:01 My /tmp isn't really big enough for cdbakeoven to use as a working directory: when I try I get filesystem full errors, so that's no good. But when I try to choose another directory (/usr/tmp, I've plenty of space in /usr), the trailing slash seems to disappear, so I get messages like cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for '/usr/tmpcdbo_audio_12_23 blah blah blah Well... of course, 'cos that's not a real file... where's the slash gone after /usr/tmp? Then I get loads of similarish errors about being unable to remove temporary wav files - but again, the reason seems to be this missing slash. What on earth is going on? Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
usb printer won't behave
Hello, I've just got a new epson stylus photo r300 - lovely, works like a dream... in windows. But not in FreeBSD su-2.05b# lptest 20 10 /dev/ulpt0 makes the print heads move a little, then stop - sounds like it's getting ready to print, then changes its mind. If there's a sheet ready for printing it's ejected at that point. The same thing happens if I do su-2.05b# lptest 20 10 ~/test su-2.05b# cat ~/test /dev/ulpt0 I installed the port print/pips-spr300_310, which is the proper driver for this printer - on install it created /etc/printcap: # written for pips-spr300_310 spr300_310|EPSON SPR300_310:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/spr300_310:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :lp=/var/ekpd/ekplp0:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/pips/SPR300_310/filter-spr300_310:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: # pips-spr300_310 end as well as the corresponding spool directory and other files mentioned. It also prompts to add some lines to /etc/libmap.conf: # Photo Image Print System (for EPSON bubble jet printer) [/usr/local/lib/pips/libspr300_310.so] libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/pips.so libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/pips.so so I did that. Now, su-2.05b# lpr -Pspr300_310 ~/test su-2.05b# lptest 20 10 | lpr -Pspr300_310 su-2.05b# lpq -Pspr300_310 Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1stroot 10 /root/test210 bytes 2ndroot 11 (standard input) 210 bytes ...and they'll stay there indefinitely without a peep from the printer, not even the throat-clearing it does redirecting directly to the device node... The detection of the printer is pretty hit and miss - it only seems to work if the printer is off when bsd boots up, AND if I switch it on after I switch on my digital camera! (Odd, huh?) But when it does work, this is what I get: umass0: EPSON USB2.0 MFP, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 ulpt0: EPSON USB2.0 MFP, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 8/6 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: EPSON Stylus Storage 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Medium not present (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Unretryable error Opened disk da0 - 6 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Medium not present (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Unretryable error Opened disk da0 - 6 ...and then it makes the appropriate nodes (there's a /dev/unlpt0 as well, but it does even less than the one I'm using). On the vague off-chance it's relevant, here's the camera going on and off again: ugen0: Eastman Kodak Company KODAK EasyShare DX4530 Zoom Digital Camera, rev 2.0 0/1.00, addr 3 ugen0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 3) disconnected ugen0: detached I don't understand why that would make any difference, they use different usb drivers... so, I dunno, is this a usb problem, or what? Oh yeah: su-2.05b# uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.3-BETA5 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5 #1: Tue Oct 19 08:53:58 BST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO i386 Thanks very much for your help, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Giant and MPSAFE
On Monday 18 October 2004 21:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks - but I can't find 'aio' in my kernel config file at all. What line should I comment out to get rid of it? options VFS_AIO Easy when you know. Thanks a lot - I guess vmware won't be happy, but then it hasn't been working for me for some time. Thanks very much, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Giant and MPSAFE
On Sunday 17 October 2004 19:55, Kris Kennaway wrote: Some subsystems have not yet been modified so they take advantage of multiple processors. aio is one of them, and because it interlinks with the network subsystem, if you have it in your kernel you can't make use of smp in the entire network stack. It's unlikely that you really need aio since it's still experimental code, so you can just compile it out of your kernel. Thanks - but I can't find 'aio' in my kernel config file at all. What line should I comment out to get rid of it? Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Giant and MPSAFE
Hello, bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.3-BETA5 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5 #0: Mon Sep 20 07:49:52 BST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO i386 I've just noticed a nasty looking message at boot: WARNING: debug.mpsafenet forced to 0 as aio requires Giant WARNING: MPSAFE network stack disabled, expect reduced performance. And then subsequently there are a good few references to things being (from memory) [GIANT LOCKED] Anyone have any idea what this is about, and if it's actually bad, and how I can sort it out? Thanks a lot, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sony PCVA-15XTAP2 monitor
On Monday 11 October 2004 17:22, James wrote: The only thing I could find is a Japanese reference to the monitor where they appear to cut the connector off, although chances are that it's a proprietory DVI connector/adaptor. My Japanese is non-existant, but it might be a place to start. For one thing they appear to have the pinout chart, so who knows... I have a Japanese-speaking friend - it might be asking too much to get a full technical translation, but perhaps a brief summary... even so, it looks like whatever the instructions are for, they're a bit beyond me, but then who knows? Thanks a lot! Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sony PCVA-15XTAP2 monitor
On Monday 11 October 2004 17:41, Kevin O'Connor wrote: It's designed for the Sony Vio so the answer is no, you will not be able to get it to run from an agp. It requires a combined sound, video and power connector Oh. Well, I'll still have a look at the Japanese stuff James mentioned, but perhaps with less hope in my heart. Thanks for letting me know. Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sony PCVA-15XTAP2 monitor
Hello, Someone's offered me one of these monitors, a Sony PCVA-15XTAP2. I really don't know anything about it, except that it's widescreen and has a non-standard connector of some sort - power and signal through the same cable, apparently (I haven't actually seen it yet). Does anyone know anything about making it work (will I be able to run it with an adapter from my current generic agp card?) and specifically making it work with Xorg? Searching on the Sony site comes up with nothing, and I've googled around and found pretty much the same there. Thanks a lot, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
autotools cleanup - must have missed it...
Hello, I managed to miss the advice everyone else seems to have had about autotools cleanup: how do I go about sorting this out? Here's the output of pkgdb -F: --- Checking the package registry database Stale origin: 'devel/autoconf257': perhaps moved or obsoleted. - The port 'devel/autoconf257' was removed on 2004-07-01 because: autotools cleanup - Hint: autoconf-2.57_1 is required by the following package(s): kde-3.2.1_1 kdevelop-3.0.2 automake-1.7.5_1 - Hint: checking for overwritten files... - No files installed by autoconf-2.57_1 have been overwritten by other packages. Deinstall autoconf-2.57_1 ? [no] Stale origin: 'devel/automake17': perhaps moved or obsoleted. - The port 'devel/automake17' was removed on 2004-07-01 because: autotools cleanup - Hint: automake-1.7.5_1 is required by the following package(s): kde-3.2.1_1 kdevelop-3.0.2 - Hint: checking for overwritten files... - No files installed by automake-1.7.5_1 have been overwritten by other packages. Deinstall automake-1.7.5_1 ? [no] Duplicated origin: delete - autoconf-2.57_1 automake-1.7.5_1 Unregister any of them? [no] And I'm getting messages along the same lines whenever I upgrade anything, stuff like this port is deprecated, you may wish to reconsider installing it) referring to libtool, automake or autoconf. Any help gratefully received! Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 12:06, Dick Davies wrote: etc, etc... sod portupgrade - manually pkg_delete all the vmware crap, then pkg_add it. On boot, I get this message: kldload: can't load /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko: No such file or directory -bash-2.05b# locate vmnet.ko /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko Is the file actually there - what does ls say? Thanks a lot for your help - on the advice of various people I actually moved this over to current@; the 'current' (geddit?) state of play is that vmware runs ok, but the vm doesn't boot, and I did make a note of all the relevant error messages (at least I think they were relevant, and I think it was all of them...) Thanks a lot for your help (and everyone else's, even if I seemed to spurn their good advice), I really appreciate it! Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware
Hello everybody, If no-one responds this time I'll get the hint, please excuse me for reposting, I'm just going out of my mind! I'm getting a total crash every time I try to run vmware. This is my system: bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jun 22 07:07:08 BST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO i386 bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_7,1 A virtual machine emulator - a full PC in a window For a while I was getting some sort of network error: vmware would start as long as all the network stuff was disabled, but if I tried to have a host-only connection (I haven't even bothered trying a bridged connection) it wouldn't run (that is, vmware itself would run fine, but the virtual machine wouldn't boot, and I'd get an error message about networking - sorry I didn't make a note of it). So I did portupgrade -fR vmware3 and after a lot of waiting around I tried again: now I get a complete crash (can't even change to another terminal and kill x) whenever I try to start vmware. On boot, I get this message: kldload: can't load /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko: No such file or directory in amongst all the other system stuff, but I also get this: -bash-2.05b# locate vmnet.ko /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko even after updating the locate database. Any ideas what's going wrong? Thanks a lot, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 22:32, Chris wrote: Why are you using CURRENT? Don't you know that you can expect things to break, not work, and overall see the end of the world as you know it? Well - maybe not the latter. Perhaps you might be better served running a STABLE branch instead of an Alpha? Oh, I know things will break, all right! They break, and then I try to fix them, and so on... then eventually, if I can't sort it out on my own or find the answer with google, I ask for help, and if I'm lucky I get it! Things might work, and work better. That would spoil the fun, surely :) Now, Sarcasm This post of yours ought to go to the CURRENT list. /Sarcasm Do you think so? I thought about it, and felt, on balance, that it belonged in questions@ - but since you suggest it I'll certainly try them. I can scarcely get less help than I've had so far :( Oh well, I'll just have to keep rebooting into Windows... Thanks anyway, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 23:45, Thompson, Jimi wrote: If you have a machine that you actually _use_, my advice is that you should definitely not run current. While you will get the same kinds of responses that you typically get from the M$ OS, it's probably not what you want a production box, hence the reason that you're using FreeBSD to begin with. We have some VERY vanilla web servers here that run 4.9, but again they are very basic and it doesn't take a whole lot to get apache and mod_perl to work properly. Since you are running VMWare and doing some unusual things with your system, you should consider rolling back at least to 4.9 and maybe even to 4.10 which is the most up-to-date STABLE distro. Thanks for your advice - it is very sensible - but I will ignore it anyway. I've been using FreeBSD for about five years and CURRENT for most of this year and worse things have happened to me than not being able to run vmware... and I've got myself out of them, with sometimes some help from the lists or friends. And most of the time it works fine! I've got whizzy graphics, sound, apache, php, perl, usb digital camera, uncle Tom Cobbley and all, I read the UPDATING files and keep it all humming... What mystifies me slightly is why I shouldn't be allowed to ask for help if something does go wrong, especially something like this, which seemed to me as likely to do with the vmware3 port as with broken CURRENT kldload code, or whatever it eventually turns out to be. I totally understand your warnings, and ultimately I am repared to take full responsibility for any catastrophic failure and consequent data loss which takes place as a result of my egregious cheek in running CURRENT (in which case it will be my wife's opinion, rather than that of anyone on a technical list which will matter to me!). I'm not Violet Elizabeth Bott threatening to thcweam and thcweam until YOU PEOPLE FIX MY COMPUTER, god damn it, or I'll take my custom elsewhere... just a bloke who likes messing around and trying to understand how this crazy thing we call bsd works... Is that so wrong? Is it? Is it really? Sorry, it is late, I am becoming hysterical. Let's stop this now before I get arrested Thanks (really!), Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vmnet.ko missing - but it's there - vmware and crashes (repost)
Hello, I'm getting a total crash every time I try to run vmware. This is my system: bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jun 22 07:07:08 BST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO i386 bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_7,1 A virtual machine emulator - a full PC in a window For a while I was getting some sort of network error: vmware would start as long as all the network stuff was disabled, but if I tried to have a host-only connection (I haven't even bothered trying a bridged connection) it wouldn't run (that is, vmware itself would run fine, but the virtual machine wouldn't boot, and I'd get an error message about networking - sorry I didn't make a note of it). So I did portupgrade -fR vmware3 and after a lot of waiting around I tried again: now I get a complete crash (can't even change to another terminal and kill x) whenever I try to start vmware. On boot, I get this message: kldload: can't load /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko: No such file or directory in amongst all the other system stuff, but I also get this: -bash-2.05b# locate vmnet.ko /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko even after updating the locate database. Any ideas what's going wrong? Thanks a lot, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vmware crashes
Hello everybody, this is me: bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jun 22 07:07:08 BST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO i386 bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_7,1 A virtual machine emulator - a full PC in a window For a while I was getting some sort of network error: vmware would start as long as all the network stuff was disabled, but if I tried to have a host-only connection (I haven't even bothered trying a bridged connection) it wouldn't run (that is, vmware itself would run fine, but the virtual machine wouldn't boot, and I'd get an error message about networking - sorry I didn't make a note of it). So I did portupgrade -fR vmware3 and after a lot of waiting around I tried again: now I get a complete crash (can't even change to another terminal and kill x) whenever I try to start vmware. On boot, I get this message: kldload: can't load /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko: No such file or directory in amongst all the other system stuff, but I also get this: -bash-2.05b# locate vmnet.ko /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko even after updating the locate database. Any ideas what's going wrong? Thanks a lot, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: three libtools - portupgrade question
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 23:57, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 22), Ben Paley said: I've got three versions of libtool on my system: bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep libtool libtool-1.3.5_2 Generic shared library support script (version 1.3) libtool-1.4.3_2 Generic shared library support script libtool-1.5 Generic shared library support script bash-2.05b$ Does it need to be like that? or can I safely do something like They are all independent ports and don't conflict. Ideally all ports would require 1.5. You can safely delete 1.3 and 1.4, and if you install a port that depends on one of the older versions, it'll just reinstall it. Thanks a lot, I'll do that. Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
three libtools - portupgrade question
Hello, I've got three versions of libtool on my system: bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep libtool libtool-1.3.5_2 Generic shared library support script (version 1.3) libtool-1.4.3_2 Generic shared library support script libtool-1.5 Generic shared library support script bash-2.05b$ Does it need to be like that? or can I safely do something like portupgrade -o libtool13 -f libtool-1.5.6 and portupgrade -o libtool14 -f libtool-1.5.6 Thanks for your help, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 65, Issue 5
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 10:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is pkgdb and where can I find it? If you mean the program, I think it's part of portupgrade/portinstall - if you install them you should have it... or do you mean where is the package database? it's /var/db/pkg Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pkgdb and ruby
Hello Contientiously, I like to run pkgdb -F fairly often, especially if I'm using portinstall or portupgrade a lot. Recently I've been getting this: su-2.05b# pkgdb -F --- Checking the package registry database Duplicated origin: databases/ruby-bdb1 - ruby-bdb1-0.2.1 ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 Unregister any of them? [no] su-2.05b# pkg_info | grep ruby ruby-1.6.8.2003.10.15 An object-oriented interpreted scripting language ruby-1.8.1_2An object-oriented interpreted scripting language ruby-bdb1-0.2.1 Ruby interface to Berkeley DB revision 1.8x with full ruby-shim-ruby18-1.8.1.p3 A set of Ruby modules to provide Ruby 1.8 ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 Ruby interface to Berkeley DB revision 1.8x with full Am I safe to remove ruby-1.6.8.2003.10.15 and ruby-bdb1-0.2.1, and point everything at ruby-1.8.1_2 and ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 respectively? And if so, do I still need ruby-shim? Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ifconfig [interface] destroy
Hello, Occasionally when I run ppp I get this message: bash-2.05b$ ppp Working in interactive mode Using interface: tun0 Warning: Add route failed: 0.0.0.0/0 already exists ppp ON potato and ifconfig shows: bash-2.05b$ ifconfig -a rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 inet6 fe80::2c0:26ff:fe27:1909%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:c0:26:27:19:09 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier plip0: flags=8810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 vmnet1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.254.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.254.255 inet6 fe80::2bd:1eff:fe0b:1%vmnet1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 ether 00:bd:1e:0b:00:01 tun0: flags=8010POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST mtu 1500 When this happens ppp seems to run normally and connect to my ISP, but no browsers or mail clients etc can see the network... I think this happens when someone closes an xterm session without quitting ppp, but I'm not sure - in any case, I've read the ifconfig man page and tried to sort it, but this happens: su-2.05b# ifconfig tun0 destroy ifconfig: SIOCIFDESTROY: Invalid argument Obviously I'm doing somthing wrong - what is it? Thanks, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkgdb and ruby
On Monday 14 June 2004 22:45, Ben Paley wrote: Hello Contientiously, I like to run pkgdb -F fairly often, especially if I'm using portinstall or portupgrade a lot. Recently I've been getting this: Sorry - I just discovered /usr/ports/UPDATING which has the answer! Silly me, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:38, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2004 05:20, Ben Paley wrote: But seriously, does any of this suggest a course of action to you? I'm planning to try the set sysid to 0 plan... what if that doesn't work? Sounds like an excellent idea. Perhaps windows is seeing the slice as a fs it knows about but finds it unformatted, so is offering to do that for you. So maybe setting sysid to zero (which I think registers as an undefined slice) will stop windows making the offer. Whatever else I can't see how this would make the situation worse. This is very comforting - I shall give it a go and let you know how it comes out. Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem
On Monday 07 June 2004 11:17, Dan Strick wrote: Partition 2 (sysid 14, start 156296385) is bogus. I don't have a clue as to how it might have been created. I *guess* it was the W98 installer - if you boot into DOS and invoke setup.exe it's fairly polite, but if you boot from the cdrom, which is what I did, it starts to prepare your hard disk without asking... aagh! I'm pretty sure this is when things began to go wrong. If the beginning/end c/h/s addresses are to be believed, it overlaps partition 1. I would not dare to format it. Instead, I would use the fdisk -u ad1 command to delete it and hope that it never comes back. If you do this, it would be a good idea to back up your FreeBSD system first, especially since you are probably not very familiar with the fdisk -u command and might possibly make a fatal mistake. This is very scary, but thanks for the advice. I had some more advice (not sure if it went to the list or not) to try setting the second partition as unused (sysid=0), so I might try that first to see whether I can avoid risking destroying everything and making my family hate me. Thanks ever so much for your advice, I'll let you know what happens, as soon as I have enough time to give this the attention it requires. Thanks a lot, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem
On Monday 07 June 2004 16:44, Malcolm Kay wrote: Notice the size recorded for this slice is zero. If the cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 is somewhere near the reasonable possible geometry description then virtually the entire disk has been allocated to the FreeBSD slice. Yes it is, all of it (or, all of it that I could withot going 'dangerously dedicated'). I have never had any intention of putting Windows on this disk. I think W98 just assumed it 'cos it was the primary master. The slice editor in sysinstall shows this for ad1: Offset Size(ST)End NamePType DescSubtypeFlags 0 63 62 - 12 unused 0 63 156296322 156296384 ad1s1 8 freebsd 165 156296385 5103156301487 - 12 unused 0 And this agrees that the second slice is almost non-existent -- 2.5Mb -- certainly not enough for windows. No. But Windows is runing quite happily on ad0 (or c:\ :-) I wonder whether you had the BIOS re-detect the disks after the swap. Maybe the BIOS still thinks the size is that of the disk previously in that position. And sysinstall and windows are both confused by the near zero apparent size of the windows partition. No, the BIOS knows where the disks are, autodetects with no problem, and the defaults it offers match whats on the disk label (I mean the physical, paper label on the metal disk housing!) - and Windows is fine on the other disk - the problem is, really, that there shouldn't be a windows partition on _this_ disk at all. What do you believe is the total disk capacity? 80Gb, nominally. su-2.05b# df -h Filesystem SizeUsedAvail CapacityMounted on /dev/ad1s1a 989M415M496M 46%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K0B 100% /dev /dev/ad1s1e 496M 5.0M451M1% /tmp /dev/ad1s1f 69G 13G 51G 20% /usr /dev/ad1s1d 496M136M320M30% /var procfs 4.0K4.0K0B 100%/proc [cut - the rest is about ad0] Since the slice 2 size is less than 32Mb then sysinstall knows that it can't really have a sysid of 14. If you say so! It knows more than me about disk geometry and so on, I guess. But seriously, does any of this suggest a course of action to you? I'm planning to try the set sysid to 0 plan... what if that doesn't work? The fact is I really don't understand in any kind of detail how this stuff works - I'm just trying to ask the right questions... Thanks a lot for taking the time to think about this, I appreciate it. Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dangerous file system / disk problem
Hello, I wanted to have FreeBSD on my first drive and Win98 on the second, but of course windows doesn't like being on the second disk, and began preparing my first drive which already had FreeBSD on it! Well, I swapped the drives over, put W98 on the first one, they both boot fine and I didn't lose any data. BUT - Windows now sees my BSD disk (which has never happened before) and keeps offering to format it for me. Partition Magic gives its filesystem type as 'BAD' rather than 'FreeBSD/i386', as it used to. Weirdly, Boot Magic (bundled with Partition Magic) found both operating systems with no difficulty. Since this isn't actually causing me a problem, I wouldn't normally care what Windows thinks of my BSD disk, but I'm worried one of my kids will press 'Yes' to a format one day... ...any ideas? su-2.05b# bsdlabel /dev/ad1s1 # /dev/ad1s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 209715204.2BSD0 0 0 b: 2097152 2097152 swap c: 1562963220unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 1048576 41943044.2BSD0 0 0 e: 1048576 52428804.2BSD0 0 0 f: 150004866 62914564.2BSD0 0 0 su-2.05b# Thanks, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem
On Sunday 06 June 2004 13:04, Dan Strick wrote: Perhaps something changed the partition type code in the MBR partition table on your FreeBSD disk. Do fdisk ad1 to display the MBR partition table. The FreeBSD slice should say: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) If it says anything else, you can use the command fdisk -u ad1 to change the MBR partition type code back to 165 (decimal). su-2.05b# fdisk ad1 *** Working on device /dev/ad1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 156296322 (76316 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 14 (0x0e),(Primary 'big' DOS (= 32MB, LBA)) start 156296385, size 0 (0 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1022/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 1022/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: UNUSED The data for partition 4 is: UNUSED su-2.05b# I don't really understand this, frankly: it certainly gives the right partition type code for the main partition, but I'm not sure of the relevance of the other stuff... does it look ok to you? Or is this partition 2 where the problem is? Partition Magic in Windows sees only one partition on that disk. The slice editor in sysinstall shows this for ad1: Offset Size(ST)End NamePType Desc SubtypeFlags 0 63 62 - 12 unused 0 63 156296322 156296384 ad1s1 8 freebsd 165 156296385 5103156301487 - 12 unused 0 (Which release of FreeBSD do you run? You used the bsdlabel command to display the FreeBSD disk label on /dev/ad1s1. That suggests you are running FreeBSD 5.x. In my experience, release 5.x won't recognize FreeBSD disk labels in non FreeBSD slices and won't create special files for the partitions in /dev. This suggests that your MBR partition type code is actually correct. I dunno ... but it should be worth checking anyway.) 5.2-CURRENT. But BSD sees everything ok, it's Windows that's having a problem. I don't feel confident making any changes in Windows, however, because it seems as though my only option there would be to format the partition! Which, from a Windows point of view, would certainly be a solution of sorts... Thanks for your help, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD mailing lists
On Friday 21 May 2004 12:41, Mike Jeays wrote: Hi! I have received no messages at all from freebsd-questions, or one or two of the other FreeBSD mailing lists, for about 2 days. Do you know if there is a problem at their end, or has perhaps my ISP decided they are all spam? Sorry, I've been away, so I'm not sure. I expect you got this sorted by now. Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!!
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 04:02, Mike Jeays wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:16, Jason Taylor wrote: I have a similar situation with a Cannon Powershot A40. I can't mount it, but gphoto is able to access it. I had to modify a config file or two in order for the ugen devices to be created writable by anyone other than root. Sorry, I don't have access to that box at the moment or I'd offer something a bit more concrete. gphoto2 turns out to work fine, thanks very much! I wonder why Digikam doesn't work, then? I have a Canon Powershot A70, and the same problem. I bought a SanDisk card reader, and it works perfectly with a Compact Flash card that has been used in the A70. It can be mounted as mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt This may turn out to be the easiest thing in the long run: certainly my wife and kids aren't going to want to learn a CLI for getting at their snaps. I guess it's either a) buy a cardreader, b) get Digikam to work or c) something else I don't know about yet. Thanks for both your help, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: digital video cameras?
On Monday 17 May 2004 19:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Pircalabu wrote: You'll notice that the oringal poster says digital video. Everyone is talking about flash cards, the Gimp, and DIGITAL STILL cameras etc. Easy enough mistake to make. I'm sorry I have no answers for you Ben. I was following this thread hoping there might be some. I'm just starting to use a digital video camera and wouldn't mind being able to edit video under FreeBSD. Thanks - although it looks like I won't be getting a video camera after all now (best - laid plans, eh? But see my exciting new thread begging for USB help for a digital stills camera...) I did find out some stuff, and it looks like there's a version of GIMP for video under developement.. There's a non-functioning port graphics/filmgimp and a quick google will reveal more... Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!!
Hello, In the past I've always been able to mount USB devices (a card reader and a webcam) as msdosfs at /dev/da0 or some such... my new camera's not playing that game. It's a Kodak EasyShare DX4530. I've unplugged all my other usb devices to test things, and booted up with it plugged in. usbdevs -dv shows: Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), Intel(0x), rev 1.00 uhub0 port 1 addr 2: full speed, self powered, config 1, KODAK EasyShare DX4530 Zoom Digital Camera(0x0576), Eastman Kodak Company(0x040a), rev 1.00 ugen0 port 2 addr 3: full speed, self powered, config 1, USB HUB(0x0e01), vendor 0x(0x), rev 0.04 uhub1 port 1 powered port 2 powered port 3 powered port 4 powered Only three new entries are created in /dev when I plug it in: /dev/ugen0, dev/ugen0.1 and /dev/ugen0.2, none of which are mountable in the normal way as msdosfs (I get Block device needed) Digikam detects it fine and correctly, but when I try to look at it says Failed to initialize camera. Please ensure camera is connected properly and turned on In the meantime Windows has no problem with it at all. This state of affairs must not be allowed to continue, by mine honour. plugging it in gives -bash-2.05b$ ugen0: Eastman Kodak Company KODAK EasyShare DX4530 Zoom Digital Camera, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 and unplugging it -bash-2.05b$ ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected ugen0: detached Any help or advice greatly appreciated Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!!
On Monday 17 May 2004 21:46, Zane wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:40:41 +0100 Ohh, your trying to mount a camera? No clue then... some are umass some are not. Sucks, huh? Well, thanks for taking the time to help, anyway. Anyone else? Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: digital video cameras?
On Sunday 16 May 2004 19:47, Christopher Nehren wrote: On Sat, 15 May 2004 20:13:15 +0100, Ben Paley wrote: Anyone know anything about digital video cameras and freebsd? snip I've had great luck with a serial camera, actually. It's a Kodak DC3200. I access it via the gtkam plugin for the GIMP, which is by far (one of) the best image editing program(s) for Unix (and Windows). If you don't want to go serial or Kodak, you'll still want to look at the list of cameras that libgphoto2 supports. Thanks a lot - I'll bear this all in mind. Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
digital video cameras?
Hello, Anyone know anything about digital video cameras and freebsd? I've got usb but no firewire. What might be a good choice? And what editing software should I be looking at? Is there something in the ports that people like? Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE upgrade problem
On Saturday 03 April 2004 9:01 pm, Ruslan N. Gogunsci wrote: Message: 16 Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:39:46 +0400 From: Ruslan N. Gogunsci [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: KDE upgrade problem To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Hello Ben, 1.You must read handbook about ports and packages 2.then go to /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade and install it, read manpages about portupgrade. www.onlamp.org has good articles about how to use portupgrade. 3. then portsdb -Uu as root 4. portupgrade -NcCr kde I've been using portinstall and portupgrade for a couple of years without problems - I pkgdb -vF more or less every time I use it, and back up the database... so I think the problem isn't with my use of portupgrade... But then again portsdb -uU (which I haven't used before) is throwing me some unexpected results: nothing that looks like it's to do with kde, though. Hmm... I will ponder further. Thanks a lot for your advice. Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE upgrade problem
Hello, I'm running KDE 3.1.4 under FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT. I want to upgrade to KDE 3.2.1, and I've tried this a number of ways, using the ports system: I've tried using 'portupgrade kde' and also in smaller chunks like 'portupgrade kdelibs' and 'portupgrade kdebase', and I've tried doing #cd /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3/ #make depend #make #make install and every time I get through the kdelibs build with no problems, and get the same error when it tries to install: === Installing for kdelibs-3.2.1 === kdelibs-3.2.1 conflicts with installed package(s): kdebase-3.1.4 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kde3. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade32717.0 make ** Fix the problem and try again. ** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped / !:failed) ! x11/kde3 (kde-3.1.4) (new compiler error) bash-2.05b# So, of course, I could try pkg_delete-ing kdebase, but I'm a bit reluctant to bugger up a working installation, just in case that doesn't actually solve the problem, or something else goes wrong, leaving me with no desktop! Of course I could install another, temporary deaktop in case... Or is it possibly a problem with the port? Any ideas? Thanks very much Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fetch, modification time and -F
Hello, I'm on a free dial-up (crap but cheap, as the Levellers used to say) and the connection drops quite often. As a result I often get left with bits of files half downloaded. Abou half the time I can pick them up using -rR without any problems, and the rest of the time I get a local modification time does not match remote blah blah error, so I have to use -F to force it. That's not too bad if I'm actually at the machine, but as soon as I try to automate something it's a total wind-up: for instance, trying to do portupgrade -RF kde. So my question is how can I stop this happening? Should I set it somewhere (where?) so that fetch automatically assumes -F when run from make or portinstall or whatever? And would that be safe? OR, should I reset my system clock which I think is pretty accurate at the moment? OR, do I just have to put up with it till I can get a proper connection? Thanks for your help, Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 52, Issue 12
I am trying to install xmms. When I run sysinstall, I first have to change the location to something else because 5.0-RELEASE is not there. I have been choosing 5.0-CURRENT instead, and that seems to at least get me into the list of available packages. When I try in install the xmms-1.2.10 package, one of the dependency packags fails to install right away. (expat-1.95.6_1) All it says is error code 1 - see debug screen for more info... How do I find the debug screen? What am I doing wrong in general? Are you using sysinstall to install the port from a cd? It's almost certainly better in the long run to install the ports collection on your machine (you might already have it: look to see if you have /usr/ports and lots of subdirectories) and install from the net. That way you can keep the ports collection up to date with cvsup and install individual ports with portinstall. These things take a little setting up but make life a lot easier. Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Passing make parameters
Hello, I just recently read somewhere of a file where I can put make parameters for any programs, so that, for instance, I don't have to remember to add WITH_MOTIF=YES every time I build kdebase... ...but I've forgotten what it is, or where I read about it. Anyone know? Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Passing make parameters
On Thursday 18 March 2004 5:04 pm, Joshua Lokken wrote: * Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-18 08:35]: Hello, I just recently read somewhere of a file where I can put make parameters for any programs, so that, for instance, I don't have to remember to add WITH_MOTIF=YES every time I build kdebase... ...but I've forgotten what it is, or where I read about it. Anyone know? Cheers, Ben /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf I think that's what you're looking for. Thanks a lot, I'll investigate. Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moving to releng from current
Hello, I've been having some trouble with current - kernel panics that I'm not really equipped to deal with - so I'm thinking of moving to RELENG_5_2. I think I'll have to get rid of the libc_r / libpthread stuff in /etc/libmap.conf, is that true? What else will I have to do? Thanks, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel panic messages?
On Saturday 06 March 2004 6:13 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: But, yes -- generally unless you're prepared to cope with crashes and do some debugging work, you shouldn't be running current. What happens if you CVS up the latest RELENG_5_2 sources, do a full buildworld, etc. cycle and then try your custom kernel config. I guess now is the time to do that. It's been very exciting, but I'm a bit over my head, though... Thanks, all, for your help. Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel panic messages?
On Thursday 04 March 2004 7:37 pm, you wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:07:04PM +, Ben Paley wrote: I want to submit information about a kernel panic which happens at boot time. The machine reboots and I can boot kernel.old: where do I find the logs and traces and things I might need to show to someone who knows what they're doing? You need to setup your machine to capture the appropriate data after the panic. There's general information about how to do that in a series of articles here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html I've got myself a core dump and a kernel.debug, and I know at least enough to start gdb - thanks to the articles you pointed me to: thanks for that (I don't really know what I'm doing, however). I tried submitting a trancript of my gdb session to the freebsd-current list, but haven't had a reply, which I guess is my fault for some ignorance of something... what do I need to include, do you think, to make my request acceptable to the busy people on the list? (Obviously you are not busy at all and I can waste your time as much as I like ;-) Apart from making sure I'm working with recent sources. Or is it worth posting it all on this list? What this all really means, of course, is that I'm too ignorant to be running current at all. But now that I'm here... well, thanks for your help, anyway. Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel panic messages?
Hello, I want to submit information about a kernel panic which happens at boot time. The machine reboots and I can boot kernel.old: where do I find the logs and traces and things I might need to show to someone who knows what they're doing? Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel panic messages?
On Thursday 04 March 2004 7:37 pm, you wrote: You need to setup your machine to capture the appropriate data after the panic. There's general information about how to do that in a series of articles here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html This is great stuff: I'm compiling a debugging kernel as I type However, you're seeing panics in the boot sequence: if that's actually early on during booting, the system won't have initialised the disks systems, so it can't record a crashdump. It's before I can log in, but really at the end of the whole process: the disks have already been checked and so on, so I reckon I stand a good chance of getting a dump. but unless you're pretty much up-to-speed with kernel development, you're probably not going to be able to extract much useful information that way. Not me! But I know someone who knows what all this stuff means (ie the -current@ list) Thanks very much, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
