Re: Can't access a music CD (or any other media now)

2011-10-24 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/24/11 13:24, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:30:39 -0500 "Michael D. Norwick" wrote: On 10/23/11 19:25, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:38:29 -0500 "Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: No, it seems that there's a severe level of &

Re: Can't access a music CD (or any other media now)

2011-10-23 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/23/11 19:25, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:38:29 -0500 "Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: No, it seems that there's a severe level of "brokenness" that has been introduced into the source tree with regards to CD devices. < snip > Good Day; Ditto on this thread. No amount o

Re: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working

2011-10-21 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/21/11 20:29, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I've been bringing up a new amd64 box with 8.2-RELEASE. So far I've managed to get everything installed OK, including a boatload of freshly-built ports. I've even gotten flash10 working with firefox... well... Unfortunately, this is only MOSTLY work

Re: Can't access a music CD (or any other media now)

2011-10-19 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/18/11 14:57, Alexander Best wrote: On Thu Oct 13 11, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Alexander Best writes: < snip > Good Day; It seems that I still cannot figure this out. No amount of searching the docs or mailing lists has gotten me closer to a solution. I csup'd the source tree again la

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-12 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/12/11 18:33, Lowell Gilbert wrote: "Michael D. Norwick" writes: A dialog box dislplaying the following, Unable to mount Audio Disc You're not supposed to mount an audio disk. There's even a FAQ entry titled "Why can I not mount an audio CD?" http

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-12 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/10/11 05:44, Frank Shute wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:47:40AM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: On 10/10/11 01:37, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:33:01PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: < snip > This looks like it's playing. Is the CD/DVD drive acti

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-10 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/10/11 01:37, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:33:01PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day; Since installing FreeBSD 9-beta2 (now 9-beta3) I have not been able to play a music cd with the dvd writer on this laptop. It is a Dell Latitude D630. I have built several new

Can't access a music CD

2011-10-09 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; Since installing FreeBSD 9-beta2 (now 9-beta3) I have not been able to play a music cd with the dvd writer on this laptop. It is a Dell Latitude D630. I have built several new worlds and kernels with the following devices enabled in the kernel config.; devicescbus

Re: Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-26 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 09/26/11 06:43, Mike Clarke wrote: On Monday 26 September 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Still no joy trying to build from source via ports or installing the binary from tenable.com on FreeBSD 9. nessusd is installed but errors out with 'libz.so.5 not found. I have; $ ls -l /lib

Re: Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-26 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 09/25/11 10:08, Trond Endrestøl wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:24+0200, Andrei Brezan wrote: On 23/09/2011 23:31, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day Trying to build /usr/ports/security/nessus on FreeBSD 9-beta2 with ports updated via - portsnap fetch update - completed 09/22/2011. The

Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-23 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day Trying to build /usr/ports/security/nessus on FreeBSD 9-beta2 with ports updated via - portsnap fetch update - completed 09/22/2011. The result from #>make; ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for nessus-libraries-2.2.9_1 ===> nessus-libraries-2.2.9_1 depends on executable: bison - fou

FreeBSD 9-BETA2 on a Dell Latitude D630

2011-09-21 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; I wish to post a successful installation of FreeBSD 9.0 on a Dell Latitude D630 laptop. Base installation was from binaries on the -amd64 dvd.iso. Xorg and gnome from ports fetched via portsnap on 09/18/11. csup'd kernel and userland source yesterday. This is a fresh built custo

Can't find pyatspi

2011-06-14 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; Trying to do portupgrade -a on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64. The build gets to orca. #>Configuring for orca-2.32.1_1 Then hangs at #>checking for python module pyatspi... I do not require accessibility packages and I do not routinely use python. What am I missing? portsnap fetch portsnap upg

Build failure /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3 on amd64

2011-06-01 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; It appears that I cannot build openoffice.org-3 from ports due to an error similar to this; http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/OpenOffice-3-2-fails-to-build-on-FreeBSD-8-0-STABLE-amd64-td3873768.html 1 module(s): nss need(s) *to* be rebuilt Reason(s): ERROR: error 65280

Re: kernel and buildworld questions

2011-05-10 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 05/10/11 20:59, Mage wrote: On 05/10/2011 10:34 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: You've tried it with an empty make.conf file first, I assume? Actually I don't have make.conf, I renamed it. It doesn't matter for RVM. It doesn't use it. I exported CC, GCC, CFLAGS and so for rvm install. ___

freebsd zfs question

2011-05-01 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; A week or so ago I experienced an error trying to compile openoffice.org from ports. The build failed from an error I was since able to resolve. This machine is at #>uname -r rainey 8.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 #2: Wed Apr 27 04:37:38 UTC 2011 michael@rainey:/usr/obj/us

make all vs buildworld

2011-04-19 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; Can someone tell me what the difference between using /usr/src#>make buildworld vs /usr/src/#>make all. I know that FreeBSD uses make buildkernel and make buildworld to routinely build the kernel and userland. Yet, I had an issue with a recent buildworld (after buildkernel). It erro

Re: Problem with an ATI x2900 video adapter

2011-04-10 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 04/10/11 06:44, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote: surprised this afternoon when, while the installation of gnome2 was working, I think it was building GCC 4.4 and friends, the HP 2010i LCD monitor I use on the machine appeared to lose the input to its DVI

Problem with an ATI x2900 video adapter

2011-04-09 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; I am in the final steps of completing a fresh installation of FreeBSD 8.2 on a workstation with a DFI LanParty motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 processor, 3 GB of ram, an ATI Radeon x2900 graphics card, and root on ZFS filesystem. Using ports.tar.gz downloaded, and src CVSup'd this morni

Re: Colorized compiler/linker messages

2011-01-23 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/23/2011 17:07, Mark Johnston wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 08:00:52PM -0600, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day, I have seen this for some time when building ports and was wondering how it was done. GCC when compiling and linking certain programs, ebook for example, emits messages

Re: Colorized compiler/linker messages

2011-01-23 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/22/2011 22:22, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 22 20:10:21 2011 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:00:52 -0600 From: "Michael D. Norwick" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Colorized compiler/linker messages Good Day, I have seen this for

Colorized compiler/linker messages

2011-01-22 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day, I have seen this for some time when building ports and was wondering how it was done. GCC when compiling and linking certain programs, ebook for example, emits messages in various colors. How is that done? Where does one find what the various colors are supposed to signify? Or, i

Re: Implications of missing this step?

2011-01-20 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/20/2011 22:57, b. f. wrote: Good Day; Running PC-BSD 8.1 with a custom kernel and new world. I just finished another custom kernel and rebuilt world according to the FreeBSD handbook. While reading the docs again to find an answer to a question about how upgraded ports are handled, I cam

Implications of missing this step?

2011-01-20 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; Running PC-BSD 8.1 with a custom kernel and new world. I just finished another custom kernel and rebuilt world according to the FreeBSD handbook. While reading the docs again to find an answer to a question about how upgraded ports are handled, I came across the following in 24.2.3

Re: HP 2010i

2011-01-02 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/01/2011 22:46, Warren Block wrote: < snipped > On 01/02/2011 08:30, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: < snipped > Thank you for your responses. I have probably taken up as much bandwidth as I deserve with this subject. I tried the attached xorg.conf with the same results. A right skewed screen

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2011-01-01 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/01/2011 12:51, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:34:39 -0600, "Michael D. Norwick" wrote: And, where are those commented out option lines in my xorg.conf documented? In the obvious place: "man xorg.conf". :-) From 'man xorg.conf&

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2011-01-01 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/01/2011 10:25, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Michael D. Norwick wrote: I bought Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "HWP" ModelName"HP 2010" HorizSync24.0 - 83.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 76.0 Option"DPMS&q

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2010-12-31 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 12/31/2010 21:07, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Happy New Year! I bought a new HP 2010i LCD monitor that is supposed to give me 1600x900 resolution at 60 Hz to replace a generic 19" C.R.T. monitor that did 1024x768. The machine has an ATI Radeon video card and I am using a V.G.A. cabl

HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2010-12-31 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Happy New Year! I bought a new HP 2010i LCD monitor that is supposed to give me 1600x900 resolution at 60 Hz to replace a generic 19" C.R.T. monitor that did 1024x768. The machine has an ATI Radeon video card and I am using a V.G.A. cable not H.D.M.I. I reconfigured my /etc/xorg.conf using X

was FreeBSD 8.1 success, now PC-BSD success

2010-10-29 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; I just completed a new PC-BSD install on the same machine I last posted a success message for FreeBSD 8.1. I do not have time to fiddle much right now and upgrading FreeBSD 8.1 from ports was giving me fits. But, living on the edge has it's price. I took the advise provided by respo

Fwd: Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-26 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Oops; Originally sent this to the poster and not the list. Sorry. Original Message Subject:Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:27:56 -0500 From: Michael D. Norwick To: Warren Block On 10/25/10 21:52, Warren Block wrote

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Michael D. Norwick
ted X-install process that makes it unnecessary to set the horizontal and vertical frequencies ourselves (which we used to have to do.) But not for X, for the sound card, for as much as possible. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day; It is with some pleasure that

FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; It is with some pleasure that I have finally succeeded in building an operative workstation with a custom kernel and world, Xorg 1.7.5, KDE4-4.5.2 from ports, most common network applications as well as Firefox3, and Thunderbird 3.1.5. The machine is an older Dell GX270 P4 2.4 GHz

Re: How to load fluxbox themes

2010-10-15 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:17:54PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good day; How does one load a downloaded fluxbox theme? I have unpacked a nice vermaden authored theme into .fluxbox/flux-themes but that is where I am stuck. fluxbox ver. 1.1.1 from ports What goes

Re: How to get clipboard working - X

2010-10-15 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:12:16PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good day; Having a time getting cut and paste to work in a new FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-p1 installation I am using a newly rebuilt world and kernel that I cvsup'd yesterday but, I was not able to g

How to load fluxbox themes

2010-10-15 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good day; How does one load a downloaded fluxbox theme? I have unpacked a nice vermaden authored theme into .fluxbox/flux-themes but that is where I am stuck. fluxbox ver. 1.1.1 from ports What goes in the .fluxbox/styles directory? T.I.A. Michael __

How to get clipboard working - X

2010-10-15 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good day; Having a time getting cut and paste to work in a new FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-p1 installation I am using a newly rebuilt world and kernel that I cvsup'd yesterday but, I was not able to get it going with GENERIC either. #> uname -a #> **.**.net 8.1-RELEASE-p1 **,**

portupgrade -a stops at building gnome-menus

2010-09-11 Thread Michael D. Norwick
led and used FreeBSD around the 5.0-RELEASE days so I don't think I'm totally clueless. I'm running it as a virtual machine because I would like to install it on a new machine once I get past the test drive and checkout. Tried to build a new kernel a week or two ago and that went awry

When do binaries get removed?

2010-03-28 Thread Michael D. Norwick
ht it seems it might. Thank You, Michael D. Norwick ___ 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"

When do binaries get removed?

2010-03-28 Thread Michael D. Norwick
ution, get removed? The make install foo command does not appear to symlink the original application location to the new one in /usr/local/whatever. Does it even matter? Thank You, Michael D. Norwick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Correct build order for MIT krb5 and ssh

2006-06-16 Thread Michael D. Norwick
I'm not sure if this is the right group for this question, but I am still fairly new to FreeBSD so I thought I would start here first. I have been trying to get a working MIT Kerberos KDC on a server running 6.1-Release. I have been able to keep the heimdal version from being built during several

Heimdal/MIT and Sendmail/Postfix

2006-05-09 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Why does FreeBSD default to installing Heimdal Kerberos and Sendmail and how do I change the upgrade process to keep MIT/Postfix and not install Heimdal/Sendmail?? Thank You, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Can't build bash3.1 during portupgrade -a

2006-05-08 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Garrett Cooper wrote: > Michael D. Norwick wrote: > >> Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> >> >>> Michael D. Norwick wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> freebsd 6.1 RELEASE Compaq Proliant SMP PII-200 (smp modified kernel) >>&

Re: Can't build bash3.1 during portupgrade -a

2006-05-08 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Garrett Cooper wrote: > > > Michael D. Norwick wrote: > >> freebsd 6.1 RELEASE Compaq Proliant SMP PII-200 (smp modified kernel) >> >> ...snip >> /usr/ports/distfiles/bash from ftp4.us and re-ran portupgrade -a. It >> stopped again with the same er

Re: Can't build bash3.1 during portupgrade -a

2006-05-07 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Gerard Seibert wrote: >Michael D. Norwick wrote: > > > >>freebsd 6.1 RELEASE Compaq Proliant SMP PII-200 (smp modified kernel) >> >>Over a week ago I was trying to rebuild Xorg and ran into an issue with >>libexpat.so.5 not found for 'fc-cache'.

Can't build bash3.1 during portupgrade -a

2006-05-06 Thread Michael D. Norwick
freebsd 6.1 RELEASE Compaq Proliant SMP PII-200 (smp modified kernel) Over a week ago I was trying to rebuild Xorg and ran into an issue with libexpat.so.5 not found for 'fc-cache'. This was my fault because earlier I wanted expat2, built it from the 'ports' collection tarball current (at that t

Re: Numerous ftp timeouts - why?

2006-04-09 Thread Michael D. Norwick
dial >up users get timed out and dropped. > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael D. >Norwick >Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 2:59 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Numerous ftp timeouts - why? >

Numerous ftp timeouts - why?

2006-04-09 Thread Michael D. Norwick
New to FreeBSD not new to *nix. Have the docs/handbook/faq, etc. Using freebsd 6.0 RELEASE on Compaq Proliant 2500R. Why when trying to install various apps from ports do the ftp sessions frequently timeout? If I manually fetch packages from sites the download goes ok, but this means I have to c

Re: Can't configure Xorg of FreeBSD 6.0 STABLE

2006-04-05 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Norberto Meijome wrote: >On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:21:22 -0500 >"Michael D. Norwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I built a proper xorg.conf but when trying to 'startx' >>the xserver bombs with a logged 'xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /

Can't configure Xorg of FreeBSD 6.0 STABLE

2006-04-03 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Just got done installing FreeBSD 6.0 STABLE from CD on a Compaq Proliant 2500 formerly running RedHat FC4. Relatively painless install thank you, though, I have a steeper learning curve than anticipated. I am following the 2005 FreeBSD Handbook and successfully built a new kernel for this machine