PHP5-GD and X11 requirement
I'm trying to add GD support into my PHP5 install and I'm utterly confused by one thing. For some reason, GD has a dependency on X. Why is that? This is a server that doesn't even have a monitor plugged in, what features of X does the PHP GD module require? It seems rather ridiculous to me that there would that requirement. What's the reasoning behind it? What features of the X libraries does GD make use of? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NEWBIE: Logging into Cox Cable service
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:10:41 -0500, James A. Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 4.10 and am trying to connect to my Cox ISP via a an Ethernet nic and cable modem. I have DHCP for the nic enabled in /etc/rc.conf and can obtain an IP address from my Windows 98 gateway, but when I connect the nic to the cable modem and reboot I do not get a response from the cox DHCP server. Cox.net is different from many other ISPs in that it only allows connections based upon registered MAC addresses. If you're not familiar with them, MAC addresses are globally unique identifiers assigned to each and every NIC. I believe the Cox.net setup CD that you speak of registers the MAC address with Cox for you. Of course, the NIC in your FreeBSD box has a different MAC address than the one in your Win98 box so Cox is saying hey, this is not the computer that's allowed to be connecting to our service! To resolve this problem, either call up their tech support and ask them to add your FreeBSD NIC's MAC address to your allowed list or see if you can do it yourself by going to cox's account administration webpage. If you don't know the MAC address of your FreeBSD NIC, you can view it by running 'dmesg' and looking at the line where the system loads your NIC. It'll be listed there. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't Mount USB Flash Drive
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:39:06 -0500, Jason Dusek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Dell D600, and I count mount flash devices on it. They show up in dmesg. Here I put the drive in the top one, pull it out and stick it in the bottom one, and then put it back in the top one: ugen0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/0.10, addr 2 ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected ugen0: detached ugen0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/0.10, addr 2 ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected ugen0: detached ugen0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/0.10, addr 2 Strangely, they show up as the same address on the same device. When I try to mount ugen0, I get a message that sayeth: Block device required. What does this mean? What do I do? Hi Jason, Check out this page which is a great walk through on getting what you need set up: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200305/cfmount.html In particular, you need to mount the corresponding 'da' device, not the ugen device. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade failure..
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 13:30:22 +0800, kinux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have install freebsd 4.9 on a old AMD box, i have been cvsup download the source code, then upgrade it to 4.10 stable but failure at ...snip... What will be the problem?? Does it need to edit something in /etc/make.conf for AMD CPU or setting something on gcc?? Generally, when I've come across this type of error it is a result of faulty hardware. I would suggest running a program like memtest86 or benchmark software that would stress your system somewhat. I'd wager that your system is less than stable when put under any sort of load (as occurrs when compiling a kernel). --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X servers
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 19:55:14 +0200, Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see why. XFree86 has been offering us the best free X-server for years. It always worked fine for me. And why would BSD care about a GPL-incompatible licese? It has been providing the best X-Server for years but that does not necessarily mean it's that good. The development team, I hear, is not very welcoming of updates, fixes and suggestions. That's the main reason the x.org team split, it's so they could increase the integration of new features into the source tree at a greater pace. The X server as it stands now isn't even more feature packed than what Win98's GDI could do. I don't think anyone really cares about the licensing issue, as far as I can tell. People have an opinion on it but it hasn't driven anyone --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X servers
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:42:56 -0500, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL, really fewer features than Windows 98 GDI? Did Windows 98 recently become network extensible and no one has told me? After a quick look at what Windows 98's GDI does, I really do not see how XFree86 fails to measure up to it. Exactly, you're comparing it to Win98 and saying Yeah, we can do that too! Problem is the rest of the world (OS X, Windows 98) have moved on in what end-user features they provide. Network extensibility is a valid point but I was referring to things like window compositing and other eye candy features. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:09:13 -0400, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent? I don't know Greg's reasoning for that statement but it does seem rather wrong to me. Would you judge a waitress on their choice of shoes? Of course not, you'd judge them based on their service. Would you decide on who to hire to build you a fence based on what kind of screwdriver they use? Why would you choose an ISP based on what tool they use to provide you with a service? See how their service has been in the past and if their service meets your needs, that's all there really is to it. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Telnet - can't telnet is as root
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 17:49:32 +1000 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to telnet into my 4.9 RELEASE box using root. Currently when I try to telnet in as root I get the reply LOGIN root REGUSED (NOROOT). Does anyone know how I can configure my system to allow root to directly telnet in. I know that I can telnet in as a standard users then 'su' to switch to root. Is there any reason why I should configure my system so that I can telnet in directly as root? Thanks. It's not recommended. At all. It's highly insecure. If you're still determined to do it, though: You will need to add the keyword 'secure' to the end of the lines in /etc/ttys that look like ttypN (where N is a number). Again, you really should be using SSH instead of telnet if you value your system at all. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [WAAAY OT]
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 18:44:43 -0500, Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know what the ACTUAL definition/word for I in Ohm's Law is? I know: E= Electromotive Force R= Resistance I= ? (I know it's amperage, but what does I mean?) I = Current. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar problem
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 20:36:44 -0400, Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to archive this directory for backup purposes. I am getting this error when trying to create a new tar file. Solisix/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tar -c Solisix/ tar: /dev/sa0: Cannot open: Operation not supported tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now What is wrong? Permissions? I am root.. You need to specify the 'f' option to tell tar where to write the tar to, it's defaulting to /dev/sa0 which probably doesn't exist on your system. Run: tar -cf Solisix.tar Solisix/ --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar problem
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:28:23 -0400, Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I got it to work. How would I include the current system date like this. #tar -cvf Solisix-$USER.tar Solisix/ --- with current user.. I want the date instead.. #tar -cvf Solisix-$date.tar Solisix/ -- doesn't work I'm still learning.. sorry What you're doing when you do $USER is bringing in one of the environment variables. If you type 'env' at a command prompt, you'll see the ones currently defined. The date isn't one of them. There might be an easier/better way but I would suggest running the 'date' command inline with the ` character as so: tar -cvf Solisix-`date '+%d%m%Y'`.tar Solisix That runs the 'date' command with a particular formatting string and then puts that result into the tar command. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome installing Mozilla by default
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:48:45 -0400, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i can't help you with the other points, however, if you're looking for a _FAST_ browser which can handle flash, try out opera. the download is small, so testing it won't monopolize your dial-up connection all afternoon like moz. I'll join in on the praise for Opera. It really is the best web browser that's extremely light but still has all the modern day features one would expect from a web browser and then some. I will warn you about a couple of things, though. 1] The native FreeBSD version is not going to run Flash. I've pulled out many, many hairs about this but have never gotten the two to work together. If you want to view Flash, then install the linux-opera port. 2] You'll be spoiled after using Opera for any length of time. I've been using Opera for a long time and I simply can't tolerate any other browsers. The feature set it provides is so expansive that other browsers will seem utterly gutted in comparison. Ever use vi for a while and then notice that random ':w' or ':wq' start appearing in places where they shouldn't because you've gotten so used to the commands? Same idea here. 3] The default interface is not for everyone. Just realize that the interface is highly configurable so don't let it turn you off if it's not to your liking. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NEED HELP
On Sat, 15 May 2004 10:08:21 -0700 (PDT), ORACLE . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI i am a new user to freebsd and i ha ve installed freebsd but i cannot config my sound card my sound card is ES1938 PCI i cannot find any drivers so help me out and i dont know any thing about UNIX coding or shell scripting Have you looked at the FreeBSD handbook? The particular part is here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot Floppy Images
On Tue, 11 May 2004 00:38:09 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to install 4.1.1 using the 4.9 boot images. Is this possible, can I use a different version of the boot images or are they always the same binary images? Bye. You should be able to, in theory at least. Once you get into the setup menu go to options and change the release from 4.9 to 4.1.1-RELEASE and when you go to install it should pull the 4.1.1 down instead. The main problem you'll find is a finding a FTP mirror that still has the 4.1.1 binaries sitting around. I can't even guess if such a beast exists. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound set up
On Tue, 11 May 2004 13:47:26 +0100, arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all ive been using linux for some time and thought was time to try something new the install of 5.2 went without a prob but did not set up my sound card in linux would be able to probe the pci bus to get an id of the card with cat /proc/ pci but could not under bsd can you please point me in the right direction Take a look here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html Most likely, running `kldload pcm` will get it working if your sound card is one of the common ones. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd on xbox ?
On Tue, 11 May 2004 09:27:11 -0400, Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be best if no one bought the xbox. So your solution to avoiding lack of competition in the marketplace is to have... less competitors in the marketplace? Why let microsoft have a monopoly in game consoles too? Sales of the xbox make game developers believe they should only write software for it. Nintendo and Sony lose and so do gamers like me who don't want Microsoft to have all the cards. What about those of us that see nothing but PS2 games? GameCube exclusives? If you want to play a Mario game, can you do it on anything other than a Nintendo system? If you say sales of the X-Box will cause developers to abandon other platforms then why wouldn't the same happen with sales of the PS2 (or PS3)? The best solution for gamers is to have good sales across the board for all platforms so they won't miss out on any titles. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkg_deinstall or pkg_delete
On Mon, 10 May 2004 22:45:42 -0400, Chiang Seng Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What's the difference between pkg_deinstall and pkg_delete ? pkg_deinstall is a wrapper for pkg_delete that supports wildcards and dependency recursion. If I use portinstall to install a port, which should I use to uninstall it ? If it's a single port that you want to delete on its own then either will suffice. If you want to do a recursive uninstall or delete multiple packages then you'll probably want to make use of pkg_deinstall. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the most light weight X web browser?
On Sat, 08 May 2004 17:21:36 +0800, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. My friend is running a tea house, she want to put her ancient Pentium 100 notebook (24MB memory) running FreeBSD 4.9, on the bar so customers can use it check mails and browse the web. (and I want to help her.) She want it to just function as a browser machine, she don't even need a window manager, the X starts up just to run a browser. (However a memory saving window manager is okay, too. Take a look at Opera. It is extremely lightweight in both size, memory footprint and CPU usage. It also has a built-in kiosk mode which would probably be perfectly suited for use in the tea house. It's under www/opera and www/opera-devel. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the most light weight X web browser?
On Sat, 8 May 2004 16:35:55 -0400, Christopher Nehren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... right. Opera is a kitchen sink suite just like Mozilla. That, and it's the ugliest thing on the planet -- even worse than anything Apple's ever released, IMO. It is feature-packed, that's true. However, feature-packed and slow/bloated are not necessarily synonymous. It is blazing fast and low on requirements - what difference does it make if it has extraneous features? Those features aren't hampering anything one wants to accomplish if they don't make use of them. As for looks, Opera is skinable. If you don't like the look, there's nothing stopping you from choosing from hundreds of different skins. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting a Windows NTFS file system
On Mon, 3 May 2004 01:45:51 +0200, Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, can I safely mount (read/write or at least read only) a windows NTFS partition in my FreeBSD operating system without any damage for this partition ? You can safely mount it read-only without risking damage. I would not recommend attempting to write to a NTFS partition. Run a `man mount_ntfs` for details. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bsd 5.2.1
Brian H wrote: Greetings, I have a question about bsd 5.2.1. is it true that it uses a different file system than 4.9? what command can i run to see the difference? when i run mount i get: /dev/ad0s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) Any thoughts? thanks, brian FreeBSD 5.2.1 uses UFS2, FreeBSD 4.9 uses UFS1. The differences are explained here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-April/001444.html --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitoring bandwidth usage by user
Benjamin Meade wrote: Roop Nanuwa wrote: Hello all, Is there any way to get live (or even just logged) monitoring of bandwidth usage by user instead of just an aggregate amount for the entire machine/interface? Squid can do it. There are quite a few perl scripts that can build a webpage from the log files and show you nice pretty graphs and such. This is assuming that by user you mean machines that are accessing the net through a gateway. Actually, no. These are all users who are logged into a single box (they have shell accounts). I wanted to monitor each user's bandwidth usage individually to prevent abuse. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem in starting GNOME
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 = On multi-user shell # gnome-session could not start 'GNOME. You need to start GNOME after you've started X. Go to a command prompt and type: echo 'exec gnome-session' ~/.xinitrc Then type startx to run X GNOME. Kindly advise how to make 'GNOME' available for selection on the GUI login screen. Don't use the ttys. Install the GDM2 port and then look at the startup script under /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d and remove the .sample from the end of the gdm.sh.sample script to get it running. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Monitoring bandwidth usage by user
Hello all, Is there any way to get live (or even just logged) monitoring of bandwidth usage by user instead of just an aggregate amount for the entire machine/interface? Thanks --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx errors when compiling
Didier Wiroth wrote: Hi, thanks for answering I'm using this in make.conf COPTFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops CFLAGS= -O3 -pipe -funroll-loops Messages d´origine De: den [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: mercredi, février 11, 2004 6:56 pm Objet: Re: /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx errors when compiling What options you use for compiling your kernel ? In other words - post your /etc/make.conf Didier WIROTH wrote: Hi, (error on 5.2 and 5.2.1-rc) When compiling the kernel I get 100... of errors like this: /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c:147: warning: called from here @/dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_inline.h:141: warning: inlining failed in call to 'ahc_release_untagged_queues' /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c:5118: warning: called from here @/dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_inline.h:570: warning: inlining failed in call to 'ahc_release_untagged_queues'etc... I've removed every scsi device in my custom kernel file as I don't use scsi and usbmass devices. Are other users experiencing this problem? This is because using -O3 adds the option -finline-functions. You should only use -O when compiling the kernel and that's all that is actually supported. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How about them optimizations?
Part of my current /etc/make.conf on my 5.2-CURRENT box looks like: CPUTYPE= athlon-xp CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe Now what I'm wondering is if those extras like mmmx msse actually do anything. The only reason they're in there is because I saw them on a website about what people use to optimize gentoo. I had nothing better to do so I recompiled the world with them. I didn't really notice anything good or bad happening after that. I did have to mess around with a couple of makefiles to get around the strict-aliasing problem that O2 introduces. Besides that, though, are there any advantages or disadvantages to compiling with those optimizations and switches? Does -mfpmath=sse actually do anything relevent for the FreeBSD world? I know what the GCC manual says about it but I'd rather hear some real world info. An enquiring mind wants to know. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How about them optimizations?
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2004-02-10T20:14:46Z, Roop Nanuwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only reason they're in there is because I saw them on a website about what people use to optimize gentoo. Don't take this wrong, but that's like asking for car performance advice From some guy with a whaletail on his Sentra. Oh, don't get me wrong. I realize that this is about as close to eRicing as OS discussions get. I was wondering if there was any merit at all to this. I mean, adding a spoiler that makes your car look like a shopping cart is one thing. Putting a reasonable spoiler on a car is another as it is actually beneficial to some degree for more than just looks. I was trying to see where on the spectrum these optimizations were from reasonable to ricer. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where can I find a list of the cvsup tags for ports?
stan wrote: I want to omit some of the ports from my cvsup run. I've always used the ports-all tag, but these days there a a good many non English language ports that only use space on my disks. I would like to limit the collections. Probably by excluding certain ports subtags, rather than explicitly including the ones I want, as I think this would be more robust relative to future additions. Where can I find a list? And what's the syntax of the exclude statement? RTFM @ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html and RTFM @ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cvsupapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html (the part about the 'refuse' file) --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error on buildworld
Dan B wrote: Hey guys, this is my first time attempting a make buildworld, so I'm sure this is a blatant error on my fault. Maybe not, so here's the info: snip and uncommented some of the stuff I understood, then followed the make world instructions. (I did a make -j4 buildworld, by the way) Using -j4 obscures where the actual error occurred. Rerun buildworld without it and repaste the error message at the end of it. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde3 meta port question
Didier Wiroth wrote: Hi, I would like to recompile the entire kde packages. I'll do the following from /usr/ports/x11/kde3 @work:/usr/ports/x11/kde3# make ... @work:/usr/ports/x11/kde3# That's it, it doesn't start to compile, why? Do I have to uninstall all my kde packages before being able to compile the entire kde packages? The meta-port itself doesn't have anything to compile everything it needs to compile are the run dependencies (not build dependencies). It will all start compiling once you type make install. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding Packages and Ports
Krikket wrote: I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to this flavor of *nix. Welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay :). The install went more or less without a hitch. For some reason ldap (part of the default package selection) didn't want to install. Could you be a bit more specific? What happened during the install? Did it give you any error messages? To test things out, I tried installing mozilla. It failed due to a dependancy, so I checked out the website to see what was available, found a version that was there, adn installed it. How are you installing mozilla? There shouldn't be any dependency problems in either of the two main ways to install packages on FreeBSD. Whether you install via the ports tree or through the package system all the dependencies should be handled for you. I think the reason that you're having dependency issues is because you're attempting to install binaries that you've downloaded that aren't packaged for FreeBSD specifically. But when I type mozilla to start the program, it's not found. (Nor was it added to the KDE Menu.) I was able to do a pkg_add -r cvsup on the first try. But I ended up with the same problem -- not being able to find the package once it was installed. Needless to say, I can't add any ports as a result. Which shell are you running? You might have to run 'rehash' to refresh your shell's cache of available programs. Logging in/out would do the same but running 'rehash' is simpler/quicker. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding Packages and Ports
Krikket wrote: Err... Excuse me while I'm a little bull-headed here, and attempting to adjust from the linux world. The reason I was thinking of using the -r option is because it pulls from the ftp site. It does. You should realize though that what you pull from the FTP site is no different/newer than what would be on the 4.9 release CD. It also isn't any different that the version you would install via the ports tree. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the various versions of freeBSD (3.x, 4.x, and 5.x) are still being worked. Needless to say, 5.x is the bleeding edge, but 4.x hasn't been left to go stale. (Or else how would security patches get done, when needed?) 4.9-RELEASE is actually only a couple of weeks old, so hardly 'stale' by any stretch of the imagination. Therefore, the thought was to get the latest and greatest from the net. No, it's not as bleeding edge as the 5.2 stuff, but if a patch was done since the 4.9 iso's were made, it would be a good idea to have that on hand. So I thought it would be a good thing to use -r as a default option. Or am I just using an incorrect line of thinking, due to the flux that I got used to (and wish to avoid) from when I was dealing with the Linux world? I think you're confusing the differences between third party package versions, FreeBSD versions and what is bleeding edge or not. You can update your ports tree via cvsup (read the handbook for a guide) and after that your ports tree will contain all the latest available versions of different software. Whether you're running 4.9 or 5.2, when you update to the latest version of the ports tree it's the same either way. So, given that I should have the ports installed from my initial install phase, all I have to do is the make install clean? Too cool. Thank you for the pointer! Yep, that's right. Keep in mind, though, that most of the ports probably have newer versions out by now though. So you might want to look into the cvsup I mentioned above so that when you make install clean, it's not installing an 'old' version of that port. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compiling OpenGL code with GCC
Chris Fisichella wrote: #define GL/glx.h Is that just a typo for your e-mail? It should be #include GL/glx.h --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Windows
I believe the command you're looking for is: XFree86 -configure It will generate what it detects and put the config file under /root/XF86Config.new For myself, though, it never worked quite right and I always find myself going back to the old command line interactive xf86config to create my X config file. --roop Matt Juszczak wrote: Hi all, About 6 months ago, I was having trouble generating my X config file (so that it would run in 800x600, etc. etc.). The command line config would work but I would never know my video card, etc. Then someone told me a utility to use that actually automatically detected my video card and generated the config for me. I don't believe I even had to install anything extra Configurator? or something like that. Any ideas? Thanks! -matt --- Matthew Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] 888-588-0556 x. 84 --- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing OpenOffice from Ports Collection
Colin J. Raven wrote: Checksum mismatch for bsd-jdk14-patches-6.tar.gz. === Refetch for 1 more times files: bsd-jdk14-patches-6.tar.gz You need to download the patchset from here: http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk14.html --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Checking out a single port
Hello, On my firewall/gateway I have very limited disk space so I can't afford to have the entire ports tree checked out. I would like to be able to check out the skeleton for a single port so I can install just that when need be (I do have the base required files for the ports tree installed). Problem is that it seems that using CVSup, I can only update a particular ports directory (i.e. ports-security) not particular ports. As an example, say I want to install OpenBSD's pf that's been ported to FreeBSD. Can I get the files in /usr/ports/securty/pf without having to get all the files in other directories of /usr/ports/security as well? Just to save some time with responses that I know will come: - I want to install from source so binary packages from pkg_add is not a (wanted) choice - I know that the compile will choke if I'm missing the ports info for the required dependencies. Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Checking out a single port
Matthew Seaman wrote: If you go to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/security/pf/ and click on the 'Download this directory in tarball' link at the bottom of the page, you'll get a nice little .tar.gz file containing: You can unpack that directory anywhere on your system and use it to make and install the port, so long as you have /usr/ports/Mk/ and /usr/ports/distfiles/ and so forth in the usual places. Cheers, Matthew Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
