Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint
Couldn't fix it with the time I could spend... so still saving printouts for Windoz. :-( I know, I know, it's a shame... On 12/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:59:51PM +0530, Chandan Haldar wrote: I'm searching for ways to print on a Canon PIXMA IP8500 from FreeBSD 6.0 Release. Has anyone tried to make the linux driver for PIXUS IP 8600 from canon.jp work for the PIXMA IP 8500 on FreeBSD? Has anyone tried the TurboPrint linux driver on FreeBSD? I need it bad enough to even buy this Euro 30 driver if it works on FreeBSD. It's incredibly annoying to have to boot Win just to print :-(. Chandan How do you print on your Canon PIXMA? I have a Canon PIXMA iP 2000 and the same problem. Elisej Babenko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firefox 1.5.0.5 port build error
Having another crack at building firefox 1.5 on FreeBSD 6.0 Release... Anyone knows what this cryptic error could be due to? Thanks in advance. Chandan === Extracting for firefox-1.5.0.5,1 = Checksum OK for firefox-1.5.0.5-source.tar.bz2. === firefox-1.5.0.5,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 - found === Patching for firefox-1.5.0.5,1 === firefox-1.5.0.5,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 - found === Applying FreeBSD patches for firefox-1.5.0.5,1 -e: not found *** Error code 127 Stop in /home/newports/www/firefox. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Canon printer and TurboPrint
I'm searching for ways to print on a Canon PIXMA IP8500 from FreeBSD 6.0 Release. Has anyone tried to make the linux driver for PIXUS IP 8600 from canon.jp work for the PIXMA IP 8500 on FreeBSD? Has anyone tried the TurboPrint linux driver on FreeBSD? I need it bad enough to even buy this Euro 30 driver if it works on FreeBSD. It's incredibly annoying to have to boot Win just to print :-(. Chandan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Data on desktop music players
Which desktop music player seems to be the most popular for FreeBSD users? I'm looking for some data on desktop music players... which ones used by how many people, how many copies downloaded so far, etc... Any pointers greatly appreciated. Chandan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Macromedia flash with native firefox
This mail in the freebsd list archives describes what I did to get firefox 1.0.7 and flash 6 working: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=660877+665553+/usr/local/www/db/text/2006/freebsd-questions/20060305.freebsd-questions Look at how I had to change MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH (towards the end). Perhaps this will do the trick for you too. Good luck. Chandan Ean Kingston wrote: I've been trying to get Macromedia Flash 6 (linux-flashplayer6) to work with native firefox (1.5) on FreeBSD 6.0 and running into some annoying problems. I know I needed linuxpluginwrapper to get this to work and so installed it along with the linux flash plugin port. I tried several times, reviewed the port build notes, looked for readmes, and searched some with Google. I found several detailed installation instructions but none of them worked for me. In order to get it to work, I copied flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so from the linux-flashplayer6 installation directory into the browser_plugins directory. I took this from instructions for getting an older flashplayer5 to work. This at least got me to an error message (about not being able to locate libpthreads.so. That is one of the things that linuxpluginwrapper is supposed to take care of. After several more attempts at trying to resolve this, I resorted to a brute force method. I copied the flash6.so library that came with linuxpluginwrapper to the browser_plugins directory as libpthreads.so. This is a very bad solution but I got flash working. So, my question is how do I get this to work properly? For any who might be able to help, here is some relevant info: Installed: firefox-1.5.0.1,1 linuxpluginwrapper-20051113 linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 messy file copies: flashplayer.xpt - ../linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt libdl.so.2 - /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash6.so libflashplayer.so - ../linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so libpthread.so.0 - /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash6.so So, how do I get this to work without the messy file copy? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB external drive size limitations?
I faced the exact same problem recently with my 250GB iOmega external harddisk with a single FAT32 partition which I needed mounted on my FreeBSD 6.0 Release system. I needed this to be mounted rw, so the MSDOSFS_LARGE option was no help. After some cajoling, iomega folks confirmed that partitioning the disk into multiple partitions should present no issues (although for some reason best known to themselves, on their support website they explicitly discourage users doing this). To cut the long story short, I chose to partition the 256GB disk into 2 128GB FAT32 partitions. Both the partitions show up (as /dev/da*) and mount rw nicely on FreeBSD (and also on Windoze as usual). To be on the safe side, I moved the data back and forth between my fixed harddisks and the external disk before and after repartitioning the external HDD, but iomega said that using content-preserving repartitioning software such as partitionmagic should be possible to use without any issues on their disk. Chandan JHorne wrote: Well im fairly certain that my filesystem has less than a million files, its mostly just large .iso files from my ftp server. I can defiantly quickly check it out against a windows computer before I plug it back in the next time im at my colo. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite
I routinely use firefox 1.0.7 and thunderbird 1.0.6 on FreeBSD 6.0 Release (both built from the ports in the ISO images). They work quite nicely together. Clicking URLs in mails in thunderbird brings up the page in firefox in a new tab. Clicking mailto: links in a webpage in firefox opens a mail composer window in thunderbird. If the other program isn't running already, it's started automatically. I didn't do anything special to tell firefox and thunderbird about each other. As far as I could see during the build process, they have a whole lot of common code of the mozilla platform, but these are bundled independently in each source tarball and built separately by each one with no shared binaries anywhere during the build process. The installations seem to be located differently for firefox and for thunderbird in the following directories respectively: /usr/X11R6/lib/thunderbird/lib/thunderbird-1.0.6/ and /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/ I could be wrong, but this suggests to me that I can probably install thunderbird 1.5 without clobbering my thunderbird 1.0.6 installation, while installing firefox 1.5 will probably clobber my firefox 1.0.7 installation. In any case my 1.5 builds fail. Chandan Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: (Aside: I thought the mozilla-suite built in email program was essentially thunderbird? I hope I was correct when I assumed you were using mozilla and not firefox?) A bit OT, but you asked :-) AFAIK, Mozilla's email and Thunderbird share some kind of underlying codebase but at the very least the look-and-feels are quite different. Having said that, I use mozilla mail daily with nary a hiccup, but the last time I tried Thunderbird (say 6 months ago) all it did was core dump. Couldn't reply to an email, couldn't browse large folders and I gave up at that point. So, while at some level they may be the same, at least in the past they were different enough to matter. Mozilla mail and Thunderbird do not share executables; it's just the source that the executables are compiled from should be somewhat shared. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite
By the way, just in case someone is interested, I also could set up to use the same mail folders in thunderbird and the same bookmarks in firefox irrespective of whether I use these programs under FreeBSD or Windoze. Setting a few links in my home dir in FreeBSD is all that it takes with my Windows partitions mounted as msdosfs. I find this a VERY useful thing since my system is primarily a desktop and I sometimes cannot avoid running Windows, but still want to see the same bookmarks and mail folders. Can post more details if anyone needs it. Chandan Chandan Haldar wrote: I routinely use firefox 1.0.7 and thunderbird 1.0.6 on FreeBSD 6.0 Release (both built from the ports in the ISO images). They work quite nicely together. Clicking URLs in mails in thunderbird brings up the page in firefox in a new tab. Clicking mailto: links in a webpage in firefox opens a mail composer window in thunderbird. If the other program isn't running already, it's started automatically. I didn't do anything special to tell firefox and thunderbird about each other. As far as I could see during the build process, they have a whole lot of common code of the mozilla platform, but these are bundled independently in each source tarball and built separately by each one with no shared binaries anywhere during the build process. The installations seem to be located differently for firefox and for thunderbird in the following directories respectively: /usr/X11R6/lib/thunderbird/lib/thunderbird-1.0.6/ and /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/ I could be wrong, but this suggests to me that I can probably install thunderbird 1.5 without clobbering my thunderbird 1.0.6 installation, while installing firefox 1.5 will probably clobber my firefox 1.0.7 installation. In any case my 1.5 builds fail. Chandan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portsnap cannot change its default WORKDIR ?
The two command line options -d WORKDIR -p PORTSDIR that portsnap accepts should be adequate for what you seem to be looking for. I use the second frequently. Chandan Yuan Jue wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 15:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -On 3/6/06, Yuan Jue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all I am now using portsnap in FreeBSD 6.0 to upgrade ports tree. It is really much faster than CVSUp. But there is one question that bother me: I cannot change the WORKDIR that portsnap use. I have change WORKDIR in /etc/portsnap.conf to /usr/local/portsnap, but when using 'portsnap fetch', the download files still store in /var/db/portsnap. Any suggestions about this? Thanks in advance! My /etc/portsnap.conf is as follows: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/portsnap.conf,v 1.1.2.1 2005/08/15 20:24:07 cperciva Exp $ # Default directory where compressed snapshots are stored. WORKDIR=/usr/local/portsnap Well, it's doesn't seem broken here and mine is exactly like yours. Are you using portsnap from the base distro or from the ports tree? I'm using FreeBSD 6.0 and portsnap is from the base distro. I was under the impression that portsnap from ports used /usr/local/etc/portsnap.conf so you may try copying your /etc/portsnap.conf there and see if that fixes something or any- thing. I have tried this as you told. it doesn't work either :( BTW: when I deleted /var/db/portsnap, the next time I use portsnap like: #portsnap fetch message will show as follows: portsnap: Directory does not exist or is not writable: /var/db/portsnap any more ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Canon Pixma photo printers and Codehost brightq
I read that the Codehost brightq Canon printer driver has a generic postscript driver that may be able to print on the new Canon Pixma IP series USB photo printers. Does anyone have any positive experience to share with this driver and any Canon Pixma IP * models on FreeBSD+CUPS? Chandan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash Player
After everything, I also had to add /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6 to MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH in /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh (towards the end of the file, colon-separated paths). This was in addition to the path /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins that MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH already contained. Chandan Rem P Roberti wrote: Boy, I did all of the above, and I still can't get Firefox to work with Flash Player. What to do...what to do. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox, Flash7 and libstlport_gcc.so mistery
cd /usr/ports/devel/stlport make install clean This solved the problem for me. libstlport_gcc.so (provided by the stlport port) is needed by libnpsoplugin.so. I assume you installed (like I did) openoffice from a binary package by pkg_add. Apparently the openoffice binary package installation does not cause installation of the stlport port as a dependency, although it installs the firefox plugin libnpsoplugin.so which does require the stlport lib. I could not figure out where and how firefox has been instructed to look for the openoffice plugin though. I run openoffice 2.0.0 and the libnpsoplugin.so resides in /usr/local/openoffice.org2.0.0/program/libnpsoplugin.so. However, I didn't find this path or a link in the firefox config. Chandan Norberto Meijome wrote: hi all, I have firefox 1.5 working fine with Flash 7 (limited tests, havent confirmed with video.google.com) - . but on first load of the flash plugin, i get this in .xsession-errors: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.1/program/libnpsoplugin.so [Shared object libstlport_gcc.so not found, required by libnpsoplugin.so] the libnpsoplugin.so exists...but why does ffox want to use it? Any pointers / ideas of where to start tracing this issue would be appreciated ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: anyone notice firefox crashes a lot with BSD+KDE
My firefox (1.0.7) takes a long time to start up. I have the sessionsaver extension installed and have several tabs open at all times. Sometimes it seems as if firefox loads the pages in all the tabs BEFORE the GUI has a chance to display the window. Did anyone improve upon this behavior? Firefox for MSWin seems to instantly display the window with empty tabs and then starts loading the pages. It may be a matter of personal preference, but if I had a choice, I'd want the latter behavior. Chandan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Second ISO Image
It contains all the binary package files (*.tgz) for the additional ports in the distrib that sysinstall offers to let you choose at install time. If you select additional ports for installation that are not part of the canned distribution sets (gnome, for example, or emacs), sysinstall will prompt you to change the disk when it needs those binary packages. I see it as a quick and safe way to get some of the most commonly used binaries installed on your system without downloading and building them from sources through the ports collection. But for some of the programs you may land up with a version slightly older than what you get by building from the sources. Only the most widely used ones out of the 14,000+ ports are available as binary packages on disk 2. Chandan Steve P. wrote: Is there a url that explains what is on the second ISO image for 6.0 release ISO 2? Could not really find it explained on freebsd.org. Thanks. Steve. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boot delay at floppy drive capacity check
My FreeBSD 6.0 Release waits for over 20 seconds with the empty floppy drive LED lit up when it checks the capacities of the storage devices (towards the end of dmesg) at boot. This happens right after the two fixed hard disks ad0 and ad1 checked and before the rest of the USB storage devices are checked for capacity. If I push a floppy disk into the drive it exits the waiting at once and continues. It seems to me there is a retry limit for checking each storage device capacity. Is there a kernel parameter to set to decrease the retry limit for the floppy drive capacity check so that it exits as soon as it fails to probe the capacity of the drive on the first few tries? Any other solution? This isn't a show-stopper, but certainly is an annoyance. Chandan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firefox + Flash work
Anyone looking for a quick solution, this is what worked for me on FreeBSD 6.0 Release. I have /usr/ports extracted from the 6.0 Release ISO CD. I also have a directory which I named /home/newports extracted from the latest portsnap download: portsnap -p /home/newports fetch portsnap -p /home/newports extract followd by portsnap -p /home/newports update The following steps gave me firefox 1.0.7 with a working flash 6 plugin: cd /usr/ports/www/firefox make install clean cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin6 make install clean cd /home/newports/www/linuxpluginwrapper make install clean cp -i /usr/local/share/examples/linuxpluginwrapper/libmap.conf-FreeBSD6 /etc/libmap.conf Finally edit /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh and add /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6 to MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH (near the end of the script) (colon-separated path components) Now run firefox as usual. That was it for me. Hope this or some variation of this helps anyone who needs a working setup quickly. Various linux compatibility packages got installed in the process as dependencies (list below) but none gave me any trouble. linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_3 XFree86 libraries, Linux binary linux-expat-1.95.5_3 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux Mozilla and linux-flashplugin-7.0r61 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux Mozilla and linux-fontconfig-2.1_3 Linux/i386 binary of Fontconfig linux-glib2-2.2.1_3 Version 2.X Linux/i386 binary port of GLib linux_base-8-8.0_6 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (only for i386) linuxpluginwrapper-20051113 A wrapper allowing use of linux-plugins with native applica Unfortunately the build of firefox 1.5 in /home/newports breaks for me, so I cannot get firefox 1.5 and flash working together in this manner yet. Also, I installed linux-flashplugin7 the same way, however, it crashes firefox 1.0.7 immediately at start, so I removed the plugin path for flash 7 from MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH. Firefox 1.0.7 + Flash 6 will keep me running until the new versions stabilize. Chandan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trading cautiously on new ports
I managed to recover from my misadventures (trying to upgrade gnome) the dumb way, namely, by reinstalling FreeBSD (6.0 Release) and the ports from the ISO CD images. Fortunately the process is fast and painless. Hats off to the folks who make the ISO images. I have over 300 ports installed. The only inconsistency I encountered so far was the unavailability of pdflib 6.0.1 as a dependency for gnuplot. Looks like only pdflib 6.0.2 is available on the net at the moment and gnuplot port in the ISO CD refuses to build with pdflib 6.0.2 sources. This led me to find out how to check out the effects of installing a new port or new versions of installed ports (from a portsnap fetch or cvsup download) non-destructively by extracting the new version of a port PATH as a non-root user in a different ports directory, for example: portsnap -p /home/myports extract print/pdflib and by attempting to build the new port version with make rather than with make install clean. This way I have no risk of upsetting my installed ports (installed as root) since anyway I cannot write in /usr/local or /usr/X11R6 etc as the non-root user. Once I see that the new port build finds all the installed dependency ports in order and the build completes without surprises, I rebuild it as root, deinstall the previous port version, and install the new one or can do a portsnap extract followed by a portupgrade (this time into /usr/ports) safely. I did this for pdflib+gnuplot. Have to try this on a large and complex port such as gnome. I understand that there is no such thing as solving the stale dependency problem once and for all (thanks for all the illuminating discussion on the ports/packages). But is there a clean command for reporting the dependencies (with versions) of a new port or a new port version without actually attempting to make/install/ or upgrade it? And may be such a command also shows the versions of these dependencies installed on the system at the moment, so that one can have a sneak preview of any upgrade trouble brewing? The closest to this I see is pkg_add -n but it requires a built package. I was hoping that there was a way to do this kind of dependency analysis by extracting the dependencies from the ports descriptions, but I haven't been able to figure out the commands necessary for that. Sometimes a potentially complex upgrade is not life-critical and may be I want to upgrade only if I'm sure that it won't lead to the kind of chaos I landed myself into with my gnome upgrade attempt. Until I see a safe way such as the above, I'll probably wait till the next suitable ISO CDs to upgrade major stuff such as FreeBSD itself, X11, and Gnome. Chandan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ports/packages confusion
Continuing to wallow in my pool of port upgrade sorrows, I'm confused on a few basic aspects of ports/packages maintenance. Looked around, but couldn't find much clarity (may be haven't found the right docs yet). Will someone please point me to an explanation for why the packages in my install sets (that I chose at the time of installation of my FreeBSD 6.0 Release), for example the X11R6 packages, do not show up in the installed packages list (pkg_info or pkg_version)? What will happen to the installed Xorg set if I try to upgrade to a newer Xorg rel through the ports/packages system? May be this would explain to me how (while trying to upgrade my installed ports including gnome 2.10-2,12 upgrade) I managed to mess up my working gnome 2.10 installation (done from the ISO disk images at FreeBSD install time) so badly that I'm finding it impossible to recover from that. The mysteries of pkgdb -F also needs way more effort than I have been able to give so far. It shows stale dependnecies right after portsnap fetch/extract even before pkg_info shows any packages installed. Why?! Where can I read a precise definition of 'stale dependency' as understood by the ports management programs? At the moment, portupgrade, portmanager, gnome_upgrade.sh (yes, I finally found that one too), nothing seems to be able to get gnome back up without throwing me right back into pkgdb -F with a whole bundle of stale dependencies that I do not know how to resolve manually staring at me. Is reinstalling FreeBSD + X + gnome + other packages from the Nov 2005 released ISO disk images my best bet to get back to a working system like I had before I attempted to upgrade my ports to the latest versions? I have not been hacking unix for several years recently, but was not exactly a complete newbie once upon a time. Thanks for any explanation or pointer. Chandan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.0 stable: linuxpluginwrapper port build failure
I'll try the portmanager in future, but for now I already took Andrew's advice and started reinstalling ports from the latest version of the ports collection. I reinstalled a lot of the ports I installed earlier from the old ports collection that came with FreBSD 6.0 Stable distrib. Things seemed to go well... until: In the middle of the marathon build of gnome2 2.12, the machine (Compaq Pentium III 933MHz with 256MB RAM) unpredictably locks up. Happened several times so far at different places in the build. Keyboard is dead. Switching console does not work. The hard disk keeps spinning and the power light is on but there is no sign of any other activity in the machine. Had to force a power down and reboot. I am running FreeBSD 6.0 Stable with X11+Gnome 2.10 and the older ports for 3 months now without any problems. So presumably the new ports installs have something to do with this new unstable behavior. Anyone seen this before? Chandan Chris Whitehouse wrote: Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 2/20/06, Chandan Haldar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot for the direction. All goes well until portupgrade asks me to run 'pkgdb -F', which asks me to resolve stale dependencies. I have a large number of ports installed and the dependencies seem somewhat intractable for manual resolution. Is this the only way to resolve the stale dependencies or am I as usual missing something :-( ? From the pkgdb manpage I could not understand the implication of the score and how that helps me select a new dependency... If you have some spare time, consider reinstalling all the ports. You might try sysutils/portmanager first. It upgrades lowest dependencies first then works it's way up the dependency tree so stale dependencies are not usually a problem. It works very well. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple MSDOSFS partitions on iomega 250GB external disk
Answering myself. Iomega support confirmed that partitioning the 250GB external HDD was possible. I partitioned and formatted the disk into two approx 125GB FAT32 partitions using Win2K disk manager. Both the partitions show up, mount, and work fine under FreeBSD (and also under Win2K). Chandan Chandan Haldar wrote: I have browsed the threads on using 128GB disks with MSDOSFS (msdosfsmount()disk too big. Sorry etc...). It seems to me from the mails in the archive that there are basically two ways to cope with this problem: 1. Rebuild kernel with MSDOSFS_LARGE enabled and pay the price in terms of extra 32 bytes per file memory usage. 2. Partition the disk into multiple 128GB partitions. I'm using a iomega 250GB firewire/usb external disk that I need to access from Windoz as well as from FreeBSD. I'm inclined to go the second way and chop it up into multiple pieces. At the iomega website, they are washing their hands off the problem with something like this: iomega does not recommend partitioning the disk into multiple partitions... etc. Can anyone on this list confirm actually making two or more FAT32 partitions on a iomega 250 GB desktop external firewire/usb harddrive and successfully using all partitions on both Windows and FreeBSD? Any issues and experiences to share? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.0 stable: linuxpluginwrapper port build failure
Thanks a lot for the direction. All goes well until portupgrade asks me to run 'pkgdb -F', which asks me to resolve stale dependencies. I have a large number of ports installed and the dependencies seem somewhat intractable for manual resolution. Is this the only way to resolve the stale dependencies or am I as usual missing something :-( ? From the pkgdb manpage I could not understand the implication of the score and how that helps me select a new dependency... Chandan Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 2/20/06, Chandan Haldar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to build port linuxpluginwrapper on FreeBSD 6.0-Stable (final goal is to get linux flash player work with firefox 1.0.7 on FreeBSD 6.0-Stable) fails at fetch of atk-1.2.0-2.i386.rpm. Fetching manually results in checksum mismatch error. Any known workaround? Transcript of session below. # mv /usr/ports/distfiles /usr/ # rm -rf /usr/ports # mkdir /usr/ports # man portsnap... wow # portsnap fetch # portsnap extract # mv /usr/distfiles /usr/ports/ # echo '0 7 * * * root portsnap cron portsnap update' /etc/crontab # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade/ # make install clean # rehash # portupgrade -ak... tea-time # cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper/ # make install clean # cp /usr/local/share/examples/linuxpluginwrapper/libmap.conf-FreeBSD6 /etc/ # cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin6/ # make install clean # firefox ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.0 stable: linuxpluginwrapper port build failure
Trying to build port linuxpluginwrapper on FreeBSD 6.0-Stable (final goal is to get linux flash player work with firefox 1.0.7 on FreeBSD 6.0-Stable) fails at fetch of atk-1.2.0-2.i386.rpm. Fetching manually results in checksum mismatch error. Any known workaround? Transcript of session below. Thanks. Chandan === Installing for linuxpluginwrapper-20050613 === linuxpluginwrapper-20050613 depends on file: /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so - found === linuxpluginwrapper-20050613 depends on file: /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so in /usr/ports/multimedia/linux-realplayer === Installing for linux-realplayer-10.0.5 === linux-realplayer-10.0.5 depends on file: /compat/linux/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 - not found ===Verifying install for /compat/linux/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2 === linux-gtk2-2.2.1_5 depends on file: /compat/linux/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 - found === linux-gtk2-2.2.1_5 depends on file: /compat/linux/usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 - not found ===Verifying install for /compat/linux/usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 in /usr/ports/accessibility/linux-atk === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for linux-atk-1.2.0_3 = Checksum mismatch for rpm/atk-1.2.0-2.i386.rpm. === Refetch for 1 more times files: rpm/atk-1.2.0-2.i386.rpm === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = atk-1.2.0-2.i386.rpm doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm. = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/. fetch: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/atk-1.2.0-2.i386.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/site/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/. fetch: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/site/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/atk-1.2.0-2.i386.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/rpm/. fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/rpm/atk-1.2.0-2.i386.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this = port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm and try again. *** Error code 1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multiple MSDOSFS partitions on iomega 250GB external disk
I have browsed the threads on using 128GB disks with MSDOSFS (msdosfsmount()disk too big. Sorry etc...). It seems to me from the mails in the archive that there are basically two ways to cope with this problem: 1. Rebuild kernel with MSDOSFS_LARGE enabled and pay the price in terms of extra 32 bytes per file memory usage. 2. Partition the disk into multiple 128GB partitions. I'm using a iomega 250GB firewire/usb external disk that I need to access from Windoz as well as from FreeBSD. I'm inclined to go the second way and chop it up into multiple pieces. At the iomega website, they are washing their hands off the problem with something like this: iomega does not recommend partitioning the disk into multiple partitions... etc. Can anyone on this list confirm actually making two or more FAT32 partitions on a iomega 250 GB desktop external firewire/usb harddrive and successfully using all partitions on both Windows and FreeBSD? Any issues and experiences to share? Also, is it possible to use something like partitionmagic to resize the first partition without destroying the data (as I can do on a standard internal harddisk)? Thanks for any help. Chandan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
