Re: Webcams and FreeBSD
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 13:40 +0200, John Oxley wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 05:05:24AM -0500, Ned Harrison wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 as a desktop operating system on my home computer. I would like to set up a webcam for physical security/nature observation while I'm away from the residence. Something simple, I just want to take periodic images and store them on an external hard drive. In the past couple of days researching this, I get the impression that it may be possible to do this but I have not found specific instructions on how to set it up. Even though I am a newbie, I have been able to get things working when I can find the right documentation. Does anybody know of an article which describes setting something like this up? If you are not bound to FreeBSD, I recommend installing Linux. USB webcams work much better under Linux, and there is a package called motion which only records if there is a certain amount of motion detected which is a better setup for security anyway. -John I dual boot with Linux so that is an option. I've been reading on how to do it on that system too. So which ever one I figure out first will probably be the one I use. As an aside,I have a minor hardware problem, (and I don't know what!) which causes nearly all Linux distributions to hang during the bootup. Knoppix has been the only one I've been able install and get running. Whatever messes up the other distributions doesn't even phase Knoppix. In addition, whenever I tried to update my Knoppix HD install, I would break something and have to install the whole thing all over again. So I tend to use Linux for my general work and it do my playing and learning how to do things on FreeBSD. That's why I felt I could get things up faster on FreeBSD, I know how to install and add programs there. Thanks Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Webcams and FreeBSD
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 13:23 +0200, vittorio wrote: Alle 12:05, domenica 25 settembre 2005, Ned Harrison ha scritto: I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 as a desktop operating system on my home computer. I would like to set up a webcam for physical security/nature observation while I'm away from the residence. Something simple, I just want to take periodic images and store them on an external hard drive. In the past couple of days researching this, I get the impression that it may be possible to do this but I have not found specific instructions on how to set it up. Even though I am a newbie, I have been able to get things working when I can find the right documentation. Does anybody know of an article which describes setting something like this up? Thanks Ned Even though it seems to me a poor solution, here it is the best answer to a thread of mine on a similar subject: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=74724+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20050911.freebsd-questions Vittorio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the hint, I'll look at the thread in more detail on the archives as I now have a subject. Didn't think to use video surveillance. Ned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webcams and FreeBSD
I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 as a desktop operating system on my home computer. I would like to set up a webcam for physical security/nature observation while I'm away from the residence. Something simple, I just want to take periodic images and store them on an external hard drive. In the past couple of days researching this, I get the impression that it may be possible to do this but I have not found specific instructions on how to set it up. Even though I am a newbie, I have been able to get things working when I can find the right documentation. Does anybody know of an article which describes setting something like this up? Thanks Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Re: Frequent loss of contact with ISP
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Frequent loss of contact with ISP Date: Tuesday 22 March 2005 01:15 pm From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ned Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [My apologies to the moderator for the traffic, but I just unsubscribed, and I didn't want to leave this person hanging.] Ned Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2005 09:55 pm, you wrote: Ned Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I reciently upgraded my home computer to FreeBSD 5.3 p5. Sense then I've had minor problems connecting to my ISP. During boot up it will sometimes freeze at the line, Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime. or I'll lose contact with my ISP while sending an email or surfing the web. From an earlier posting to this forum I found that Ctrl+C will let the system finishing the boot up. Then I can easily connect to my ISP by running /etc/netstart as root. Everything works fine at least for a while. However, sooner or later I'll lose the conection again. I have not been able to discern a pattern to the disconnects either. Yet as soon as I run netstart again everything works again. It can be hours before I the lose the connection or sometimes I'll lose the connection again within twenty minutes. I've searched for a permanent fix by looking throught this forum. But I havn't found anything yet. Though that might be because I don't quite know how to search! :-) I am a newbie using FreeBSD so any suggestions would be appreciated. Spend a little time in the /var/log directory and see if anything is being logged around the time you lose connection. Also, more clearly defining lose connection would help. What does ifconfig say when the connection is up and when it's down? The difference between those two outputs may lead you toward a solution. Thank you for the suggestions. I've scanned the log files and didn't see any unusual error messages. But that could be because I don't know what to look for. I've run FreeBSD for just about one year and had no Unix experience prior to that at all. I jumped from Windows, where somebody did everything for me to, FreeBSD where I have to figure things out on my own with only hints and suggestions. (Honestly, I find it funner this way!) I'll check to logs next time it goes down. I copied the results from ifconfig when everything is working to a file. As soon as I lose the connection I'll run ifconfig again. To get more defined regarding the loss of connection, it's almost as if I typed ipfw flush as root and cut myself down to the default deny everything rule. Sent emails will set unprocessed in the queue, when attempting to download e-mail, K-mail will return an unknown host error message, web browsers will either open to a blank white page or give me an invalid ULR error message. It even went down while viewing a video on Xine. The video just stopped, then I got an invalid host error message. As soon as I type /etc/netstart. Boom! everythings up an running as if nothing was ever wrong. I saw your other email as well, which shows that ifconfig during up/down is the same. That means that you're not losing your IP address, and the fact that /etc/netstart fixes the problem probably means it's not hardware related. So the next steps are to tear apart the networking system and figure out exactly which part of it is shutting off. First, do these: 1) Copy /etc/resolv.conf to your home dir: this contains your DNS server information. 2) Save the output of `netstat -rn` (use something like `netstat -rn /home/username/netstat.txt` This is your routing table. Now ... the next time it goes down, check: 1) Did /etc/resolv.conf change? 2) Did the output of `netstat -rn` change? 3) In the netstat output will be a line that starts with default, see if you can ping that IP address - if not, then the problem is probably with your switch/hub or other local network. 4) Try pinging 206.190.36.122 (that's the ip for story.news.yahoo.com), if it works, then the problem is likely with DNS. 5) if #4 works, try pinging story.news.yahoo.com ... if that fails, then DNS is almost certainly the problem, if that works, then the problem is somewhere in the network config, or application config. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com --- Thanks for the help. I believe you are correct in that it's probably not a hardware issue. I dual boot with Linux and I am having no problems connecting to the internet on that side. System didn't go down Wednesday, but it went down today. The output of netstat -rn didn't change. I tried to ping the IP address after the word default in line 3. Here is the output: nedsbsd# ping -a -c 3 -o 68.13.118.1 PING 68.13.118.1 (68.13.118.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Permission denied ping: sendto: Permission
Re: Frequent loss of contact with ISP
On Sunday 20 March 2005 09:55 pm, you wrote: Ned Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I reciently upgraded my home computer to FreeBSD 5.3 p5. Sense then I've had minor problems connecting to my ISP. During boot up it will sometimes freeze at the line, Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime. or I'll lose contact with my ISP while sending an email or surfing the web. From an earlier posting to this forum I found that Ctrl+C will let the system finishing the boot up. Then I can easily connect to my ISP by running /etc/netstart as root. Everything works fine at least for a while. However, sooner or later I'll lose the conection again. I have not been able to discern a pattern to the disconnects either. Yet as soon as I run netstart again everything works again. It can be hours before I the lose the connection or sometimes I'll lose the connection again within twenty minutes. I've searched for a permanent fix by looking throught this forum. But I havn't found anything yet. Though that might be because I don't quite know how to search! :-) I am a newbie using FreeBSD so any suggestions would be appreciated. Spend a little time in the /var/log directory and see if anything is being logged around the time you lose connection. Also, more clearly defining lose connection would help. What does ifconfig say when the connection is up and when it's down? The difference between those two outputs may lead you toward a solution. Thank you for the suggestions. I've scanned the log files and didn't see any unusual error messages. But that could be because I don't know what to look for. I've run FreeBSD for just about one year and had no Unix experience prior to that at all. I jumped from Windows, where somebody did everything for me to, FreeBSD where I have to figure things out on my own with only hints and suggestions. (Honestly, I find it funner this way!) I'll check to logs next time it goes down. I copied the results from ifconfig when everything is working to a file. As soon as I lose the connection I'll run ifconfig again. To get more defined regarding the loss of connection, it's almost as if I typed ipfw flush as root and cut myself down to the default deny everything rule. Sent emails will set unprocessed in the queue, when attempting to download e-mail, K-mail will return an unknown host error message, web browsers will either open to a blank white page or give me an invalid ULR error message. It even went down while viewing a video on Xine. The video just stopped, then I got an invalid host error message. As soon as I type /etc/netstart. Boom! everythings up an running as if nothing was ever wrong. Thanks again for your suggestions. Ned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Re: Frequent loss of contact with ISP
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Frequent loss of contact with ISP Date: Sunday 20 March 2005 09:55 pm From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ned Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Ned Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I reciently upgraded my home computer to FreeBSD 5.3 p5. Sense then I've had minor problems connecting to my ISP. During boot up it will sometimes freeze at the line, Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime. or I'll lose contact with my ISP while sending an email or surfing the web. From an earlier posting to this forum I found that Ctrl+C will let the system finishing the boot up. Then I can easily connect to my ISP by running /etc/netstart as root. Everything works fine at least for a while. However, sooner or later I'll lose the conection again. I have not been able to discern a pattern to the disconnects either. Yet as soon as I run netstart again everything works again. It can be hours before I the lose the connection or sometimes I'll lose the connection again within twenty minutes. I've searched for a permanent fix by looking throught this forum. But I havn't found anything yet. Though that might be because I don't quite know how to search! :-) I am a newbie using FreeBSD so any suggestions would be appreciated. Spend a little time in the /var/log directory and see if anything is being logged around the time you lose connection. Also, more clearly defining lose connection would help. What does ifconfig say when the connection is up and when it's down? The difference between those two outputs may lead you toward a solution. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com --- It didn't take too long this time. ifconfig when running. rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU inet6 fe80::20d:87ff:fe34:a64c%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 68.13.119.137 netmask 0xfe00 broadcast 68.13.119.255 ether 00:0d:87:34:a6:4c media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active plip0: flags=108810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 ifconfig when not running. rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU inet6 fe80::20d:87ff:fe34:a64c%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 68.13.119.137 netmask 0xfe00 broadcast 68.13.119.255 ether 00:0d:87:34:a6:4c media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active plip0: flags=108810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 They look the same to me. The error message from Konqueror: An error occurred while loading http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/latimests/20050319/ts_latimes/policyoksfirststriketoprotectus: Unknown host story.news.yahoo.com Scanning the logs I didn't see any new messages or changes Between work and rehearsal, I won't be back on line until Wednesday, so until then, thank you very much for your assistence. I do appreciate it. Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frequent loss of contact with ISP
I reciently upgraded my home computer to FreeBSD 5.3 p5. Sense then I've had minor problems connecting to my ISP. During boot up it will sometimes freeze at the line, Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime. or I'll lose contact with my ISP while sending an email or surfing the web. From an earlier posting to this forum I found that Ctrl+C will let the system finishing the boot up. Then I can easily connect to my ISP by running /etc/netstart as root. Everything works fine at least for a while. However, sooner or later I'll lose the conection again. I have not been able to discern a pattern to the disconnects either. Yet as soon as I run netstart again everything works again. It can be hours before I the lose the connection or sometimes I'll lose the connection again within twenty minutes. I've searched for a permanent fix by looking throught this forum. But I havn't found anything yet. Though that might be because I don't quite know how to search! :-) I am a newbie using FreeBSD so any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you, Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice startup question
On Sunday 06 February 2005 11:26 pm, nbco wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2005 17:03, Ned Harrison wrote: snip However, the initiall set up instructions don't seam to work. When I type openoffice, I get Command not found for a response. It doesn't matter whether I enter the command as an ordinary user or as root. This is true even when I move to /usr/local/bin where there are several openoffice files. Hi there, Go to: /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.4 then enter the command (as root) ./spadmin hope this helps .nbco Sorry for the delay. I didn't have time to work on this yesterday. Thanks for the hints though. I'm getting an error message now. So the program is responding. Here is the error message. /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libc.so.6 not found, required by javaldx /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libc.so.6 not found, required by pagein /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libc.so.6 not found, required by spadmin.bin I also get the same message typing out the path and command soffice. Which another posting suggested that I try. I didn't see libc.so.6 as either a package or in the ports tree but it looked familiar. So I used the find command on the name libc.so* and pulled up this reference: /usr/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6 I guess that I need to do something to link openoffice to this. The next questions are Where and How? Thanks for your assistance. Ned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very general shutdown question
On Monday 07 February 2005 03:28 am, you wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2005 11:46 am, Ned Harrison wrote: I run FreeBSD 5.3 on my home PC in a stand alone machine as a desktop. Is it possible to set it up so an ordinary user can shut the system? I've created a couple of accounts that are not in the wheel group so I can give friends and house guests the chance to play on a non-Microsoft system. I don't want to give them root access just to shut it down. None of the books which I have discuss using FreeBSD in this way. They are mostly geared to setting up networks running it for businesses. Areas where one may not want an ordinary user to be able to shutdown the machine. However, I prefer having the machine off when I'm not on it. If it's not possible that fine I can continue working around it like I do now. The easiest way I've found to do this is assuming you have X installed and are using a login manager ie. KDM/GDM/Login.app just use the shutdown functionality of the login manager to shutdown the system. The most fool proof way if you've got ACPI on this system it to just tap the power button and it'll shutdown. This sounds like what I want. I have WDM installed and I have KDE installed. I didn't realize that function was there. I've been using a terminal login ever sense I started using FreeBSD because that how I thought it was supposed to work! I'll try to step through the setup of KDM. I found a reference to the KDE display manager in the FreeBSD handbook. It might take a few days to figure things out. But this should work. Thanks, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Very general shutdown question
I run FreeBSD 5.3 on my home PC in a stand alone machine as a desktop. Is it possible to set it up so an ordinary user can shut the system? I've created a couple of accounts that are not in the wheel group so I can give friends and house guests the chance to play on a non-Microsoft system. I don't want to give them root access just to shut it down. None of the books which I have discuss using FreeBSD in this way. They are mostly geared to setting up networks running it for businesses. Areas where one may not want an ordinary user to be able to shutdown the machine. However, I prefer having the machine off when I'm not on it. If it's not possible that fine I can continue working around it like I do now. Thank you Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Openoffice startup question
I installed openoffice-1.1.4 via using pkg_add on a package pulled down from the FreeBSD web cite. It installed with only two minor warnings regarding out of date packages. Those have been upgraded and pkgdb -F fixed the dependencies. However, the initiall set up instructions don't seam to work. When I type openoffice, I get Command not found for a response. It doesn't matter whether I enter the command as an ordinary user or as root. This is true even when I move to /usr/local/bin where there are several openoffice files. Any suggestions on what to do next would be appreciated. thanks, Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printer fails to work after upgrade to 5.3
Fo you have cups-pstoraster? Also, have you tried gimp-print? The drivers are excellent and work extremely well with cups, especially when you use something like . kprinter --stdin instead of lpr. That way, you have a ton of configuration options that you can easily change for each file that you print. I have cups-pstoraster-7.07_3 and gimp-print-4.2.7_1. The settings for gimp-print are still there, I can see them when I access cups via http:/localhost:631. I think I might have wiped out a necessary script when I used mergemaster after my last upgrade. FreeBSD is very new to me so I took the defaults as much as possible while running mergemaster. (I inadvertently wiped out all my ordinary users. :-) Though I did catch my firewall! Live and learn.) I also removed packages for the Gnome desktop which I initially installed but decided I prefer to use KDE. Not all of them though, I saved those which other packages seamed dependent on. Basicly I removed those packages which did not upgrade and were not dependencies for other packages and were not applications which I intended to use. I might have wiped out something there. Brain dead newbie question, is there a way to send a file to print via cups through the command line? That might give me an error message to track. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printer fails to work after upgrade to 5.3
I have a Cannon S520 printer that I had working under 5.2.1 using cups with KDE as a graphical interface. After upgrading I have not been able to get it to print. I get no error messages when I send a document to print. Even test prints bring back a message stating the test print was successfull, however the printer does not respond. I double checked my packages in case I deleted any. Ghostscrip-gnu-nox11 is still installed as well as cups. I still have a symbolic link from cups.sh.sample to cups.sh in the ~/etc/rc.d directory. The /etc/make.conf file still has CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes and NO_LPR=yes in it. The corresponding lp commands in /usr/bin are symbolicly linked to their counterparts in /usr/local/bin/lp. Is there something basic that I have missed or a change which needs to be added? I have created the libmap.conf file to adjust the different threading libraries. What would I need to do to try to get an error message via the command line? I'm a newbie, when I first set up the printer under 5.2.1, I followed some basic set up instructions and the KDE graphical interface took right off without problems. So I never really learned anything. :-) Any assistance will be appreciated! Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox with Spinlock error
On Monday 10 January 2005 02:17 am, you wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:47:46PM +, Ned Harrison wrote: I keep getting this error when I try to start Firefox: Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0) Abort trap (core dumped) I read from a November post that this was related to out of date files in the ~/.mozilla directory. No. It's related to being linked to multiple thread libraries, see /usr/src/UPDATING. Kris Kris, are you sure you are not with obscurity.org? ;-) That's a mighty vague answer! At least to me. Your hint however was enough to get me to the right spot to get the problem fixed, though I had to cross referenced it with the November 10th erata note on the main FreeBSD web cite to be sure. Why I hadn't seen that erata note before now I don't know. Both the upgraded Mozilla and Firefox, PLUS my sound are now working. Now I just need to get my printer back on line. Then my upgrade to 5.3 will be complete. Thank you very much for the hint. I'm such a Newbie I didn't even know of the existance of the /usr/src/UPDATING file. I'll remember it now. Sincerely, Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firefox with Spinlock error
I keep getting this error when I try to start Firefox: Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0) Abort trap (core dumped) I read from a November post that this was related to out of date files in the ~/.mozilla directory. I could not find an answer from the mozilla web cite so I totally deleted that directory. Still have the problem. Any other suggestions? Thank you in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xorg/dri-6.2_1,2 upgrade problems
On 12/30/04 22:18:32, Ned Harrison wrote: The upgrade to 5.3 fixed the Dri build problems. Thanks for the hint, Jason. It is much appreciated. I had to run xorgconfig to make a new config file in order to get the X server going again. My kde desktop keeps crashing but the Windowmaker desktop I installed runs. It doesn't run perfectly but at least I know X works.I will try using the force switch on portupdate to redo those ports I originally I upgraded in 5.2.As for your p pro question. It must be a default in some makefile. I'm too much of a newbie to even know what p pro is. :-) Sorry about not including the prior message. But I'm still working off a Knoppix disk. Thanks Ned ___ freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- unsubscribe at freebsd.org Your'e welcome. I think you have somethings not fully upgraded to have some of those problems. I hear it is kind of a comman problem with big ports like kde for some of the dependancies not to be built. Portmanager is a new program I have found and like it. It is not as full featured as portupgrade, but it is nice. Install it, it is a very quick compile, less than a min. Then run portmanager -s | grep OLD as root. It ill tell you everything that is out of date, be sure to cvsup ports and cd /usr/ports make fetchindex first. Did you rebuild x after you update to 5.3? You will need to. Try portupgrade -fRr xorg. If you want to optimize you programs have a look at /etc/make.conf. You can check out /usr/share/example/make.conf first. The p pro stands for pentium pro. It is very old, pre pII. It is also a default setting to optimise for that can help most modern x86 processors. If you want to set some make options here is mine, note you may need to change the processor type. CPUTYPE=athlon-xp CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -fschedule-insns2 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops COPTFLAGES=-O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -fschedule-insns2 It turned out to be the kdemultimedia package. It would not update nor could I build it from the ports. I wiped it out with pkg_delete -f. Can't play my tunes but I'm back on line! :-) Jason, Thanks again for the hints. Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bad display name/xserver question
I'm running 5.3-RELEASE-p2. I am unable to open a terminal window in either windowmaker or the default twm window manager. No error messages go to the log files. However after x crashes there will be output messages to the screen along these lines: Xauth: (argu):1: bad display name nedsbsd.cox.net : 0 in list command The nedsbsd is something I'm willing to change if needed. I entered it months ago when I initially installed FreeBSD didn't know what the install program was asking for when it asked for a display name. I figured I could change it later. I neglected to change it when it seamed to not cause problems. Any suggestions will be appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xorg/dri-6.2_1,2 upgrade problems
Thanks again. I'll try the portmanager. I read through a discussion of it in freebsd-questions, but didn't have a command example to try. (Thanks for your command suggestion for portmanager.) For portupgrade I have paper copies of the man page and paper copy of an article which I cross reference before running it. You are right on dependencies not being built. I had to pkg_delete qt and rebuild it from ports in order to upgrade kde. Before seeing your message I ran portupgrade on xorg using the -frR switch. X seams to be working now, somewhat. I use windowmaker as the desktop windowmanager for the root. Entering the command startx as root, windowmaker starts up and looks fine. However, I can't open a terminal window in it. The default twm windowmanager crashes. No error messages go to the log but I get a line: Xauth: (argv):1 bad display name nedsbsd.cox.net:0 in list command and two others of like nature as messages after x crashes. I entered nedsbsd as a display name when I initially installed FreeBSD several months ago. I had no clue what it the install program was asking for at that time and figured I could change it later. It didn't seam to cause any problems so I neglected to change it. I generally cvsup my ports and fetch the index right before I do any upgrading. Even if it's just the next day. Never know when something new is going to pop in that could cause a make to crash. I took down the optimizations you suggested. The lines currently have no meaning to me, so I'll need to read up a bit. I've been running FreeBSD for less than a year and I've had no computer experience or training outside very basic MS windows. So many things are new and many are incomprehensible at first look. Dispite that I feel far more comfortable and secure using FreeBSD than I ever did using Windows. That's why I'll keep plugging away. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xorg/dri-6.2_1,2 upgrade problems
The upgrade to 5.3 fixed the Dri build problems. Thanks for the hint, Jason. It is much appreciated. I had to run xorgconfig to make a new config file in order to get the X server going again. My kde desktop keeps crashing but the Windowmaker desktop I installed runs. It doesn't run perfectly but at least I know X works.I will try using the force switch on portupdate to redo those ports I originally I upgraded in 5.2.As for your p pro question. It must be a default in some makefile. I'm too much of a newbie to even know what p pro is. :-) Sorry about not including the prior message. But I'm still working off a Knoppix disk. Thanks Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xorg/dri-6.2_1,2 upgrade problems
I'm currently running Release 5.2.1. which has just reciently been updated to the security branch. I was upgrading xorg to version 6.8.1. with portupgrade when it crashed with an Error Code 1. I traced the crash to failure to upgrade dri-5.0.2,2 to dri-6.2_1,2. I've attempted to build dri-6.2_1,2 but it keeps crashing with an Error code 2. I didn't see any notes in the ports UPDATING file regarding this issue nor did I find any similar issues in the archives. I ran cvsup to update the ports this morning and done the prtsdb -Uu to creat an index. The make in dri still has the same problem. I piped my last attempt to make dri to a file. The last lines of the output are below. Sorry about the lack of additional information. My xserver crashed so i am stuck in the command line mode. I'm running my computer off Knoppix disk so I can send this information to freebsd-questions. So any suggestions on what I should do or attempt to do to get my system back up and running would be appreciated. Output of the Make command in the dri port: -mcpu=pentiumpro -DDRI_NEW_INTERFACE_ONLY -Wmissing-prototypes -g -std=c9x -Wundef -fPIC -ffast-math -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions -DGLX_DIRECT_RENDERING i810tris.c -o i810tris.o cc -c -I. -I../../../../../src/mesa/drivers/dri/common -Iserver -I../../../../../../drm/shared -I../../../../../../drm/linux -I../../../../../include -I../../../../../include/GL/internal -I../../../../../src/mesa -I../../../../../src/mesa/main -I../../../../../src/mesa/glapi -I../../../../../src/mesa/math -I../../../../../src/mesa/transform -I../../../../../src/mesa/shader -I../../../../../src/mesa/swrast -I../../../../../src/mesa/swrast_setup -I../dri_client -I../dri_client/imports -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -DDRI_NEW_INTERFACE_ONLY -Wmissing-prototypes -g -std=c9x -Wundef -fPIC -ffast-math -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions -DGLX_DIRECT_RENDERING i810vb.c -o i810vb.o rm -f ../../../../../lib/i810_dri.so gcc -o ../../../../../lib/i810_dri.so -shared ../../common/driverfuncs.o ../common/mm.o ../common/utils.o ../common/texmem.o ../common/vblank.o ../common/dri_util.o ../common/glcontextmodes.o ../common/xmlconfig.o i810context.o i810ioctl.o i810render.o i810screen.o i810span.o i810state.o i810tex.o i810texmem.o i810texstate.o i810tris.o i810vb.o ../../../../../src/mesa/mesa.a ../dri_client/dri.a -L/usr/local/lib -lm -lpthread -lexpat gmake[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/graphics/dri/work/Mesa/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i810' gmake[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/graphics/dri/work/Mesa/src/mesa/drivers/dri' gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/graphics/dri/work/Mesa/src/mesa' gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/graphics/dri/work/Mesa/src/mesa' gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/graphics/dri/work/Mesa/src' gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/graphics/dri/work/Mesa' *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/dr Thank you for your consideration, Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Post freebsd-update question
I am newbie running FreeBSD 5.2.1 with a custom kernel. Not any major modifications, I just commented out a few devices which I do not have and copied over a few items from the Notes file. I just ran freebsd-update to pick up security patches. It fetched and installed without any problems. However, freebsd-update let me know that it did not update the kernel because it had been modified locally. What do I need to do now to update the kernel? Do I need to use csvup to update the GENERIC and NOTES files, then recompile and reinstall? Thank you, Ned ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gmplayer config file question
I am running mplayer-gtk-esound-0.99.5_2 using the default GUI skin Blue. Running mplayer from the command line, using -vo x11, I've been able to open sample clip's which I download. However, when I try to run the same clips via the GUI, I get this error message: Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. Running gmplayer from a terminal, I get a more specific error message. *** Playing /usr/home/ned/flix/clip1.avi. Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)AVI file format detected. VIDEO: [MPG4] 320x240 24bpp 14.994 fps 331.0 kbps (40.4 kbyte/s) Clip info: Software: C:\WINNT\system32\MSVBVM60.DLL -AVICAP32- o100vc.dll - Osprey Capture Card 1, Digitization Time: Fri Nov 7 9:36:25 2003 == Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder AUDIO: 8000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 32000-32000 (256.0 kbit) Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm:pcm (Uncompressed PCM) == It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available. Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/devices.html#xv! See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11 ** I copied the sample config file to my personal ~/.mplayer directory. Most of the options I left commented out, except for; vo=x11, fs=yes, and skin = Blue. (And yes I commented out the last line of the config file.) Any suggestions would be appreciated. If more information is needed just let me know. Thank you, Ned ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE 3.3 upgrade and Sound
Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:14:49AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:06:37PM -0500, Ned Harrison wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and upgraded from KDE 3.1 to 3.3. After completing the upgrade, I found that I did not have any system sounds. Following the instuctions in the UPDATING file in /usr/ports, I removed the knotifyrc file. After logging out and back into KDE, I now have system sounds but applications like XMMS and KsCD will not produce sounds, yet they access the the CD drive and will list files correctly. I have also upgraded from XFree86 to xorg. What additional information that I could provide could help on this matter? Or am I just overlooking something in the Kcontrols? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Start KMix and change the volume levels. For some unknow reason the volume has bin set to 0% by default in the 3.3.0. Boy, you know how to make me feel dumb! ;-) Works perfectly. I had spent a couple of hours trying to figure out whether arts or some other program was blocking it. Thank you very much! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE 3.3 upgrade and Sound
I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and upgraded from KDE 3.1 to 3.3. After completing the upgrade, I found that I did not have any system sounds. Following the instuctions in the UPDATING file in /usr/ports, I removed the knotifyrc file. After logging out and back into KDE, I now have system sounds but applications like XMMS and KsCD will not produce sounds, yet they access the the CD drive and will list files correctly. I have also upgraded from XFree86 to xorg. What additional information that I could provide could help on this matter? Or am I just overlooking something in the Kcontrols? Any suggestions would be appreciated. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Omni Drivers for a Canon Printer
Thank you very much! I did not find Omni drivers though. However, I did
find very detailed instructions on how to modify the default
configuration for a Canon S800 printer that is using gimp-print drivers
that makes an Canon S520 run. So I decided to give it a shot.
I found in the Gimp-print drivers in my Ports so installed them. Then
got the Cups up and running. The test print was so much better than what
my omni drivers with a Canon S8500 can do on the Linux side that I went
over to the Linux side and changed them as well.
Gerard Seibert wrote:
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:47:51 -0500 Ned Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
|Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:47:51 -0500
|From: Ned Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: Omni Drivers for a Canon Printer
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|I dual boot FreeBSD 5.2.1 with Redhat Linux 9. I am trying to set up
|my printer which is a Canon S520 to print on the FreeBSD side.
|Running apsfilter SETUP I can get the printer to respond but the quality
|of the test prints have been poor. On my Linux side, however, the
|printer runs fine using one of the Cannon BJP printers and a Omni print
|driver.
|
|When I ran apsfilter SETUP in FreeBSD I found the same printer but I
|don't have the Omni drivers installed. I've searched through my
|installation disks and looked through the ports but did not find any
|reference to Omni drivers.
|
|Where would I find these drivers? Are they in the Ports under a
|different name? Or should I just break down and buy a new printer? If
|there is another way to get this printer up an running, I'm willing to
|give it a try.
|
|Thanks
** Reply Separator **
Monday, September 13, 2004 5:42:12 AM
I do not know if this will be of any help or not, but you might want to
check it out. This is the URL where I located a driver for my Canon S630
printer.
http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi
Good Luck!
Gerard Seibert
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Omni Drivers for a Canon Printer
I dual boot FreeBSD 5.2.1 with Redhat Linux 9. I am trying to set up my printer which is a Canon S520 to print on the FreeBSD side. Running apsfilter SETUP I can get the printer to respond but the quality of the test prints have been poor. On my Linux side, however, the printer runs fine using one of the Cannon BJP printers and a Omni print driver. When I ran apsfilter SETUP in FreeBSD I found the same printer but I don't have the Omni drivers installed. I've searched through my installation disks and looked through the ports but did not find any reference to Omni drivers. Where would I find these drivers? Are they in the Ports under a different name? Or should I just break down and buy a new printer? If there is another way to get this printer up an running, I'm willing to give it a try. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
