Re: Xorg 7.2 and FreeBSD 6.2-p5 VMWARE vmmouse problem
On 09/01/2008, at 10:31 AM, Bob Finch wrote:
On 10/10/2007, at 17:00:22, Sam Lawrance wrote:
On 10/07/2007, at 11:53 AM, Webster, Andrew wrote:
Howdy,
I was successfully able to get Xorg upgraded to 7.2 by just
installing them from scratch as opposed to trying to upgrading an
existing system, BUT I’ve run into a problem…
While running VMWare Server 1.0.3 with FreeBSD 6.2-p5 and Xorg 7.2,
the mouse pointer behaves very oddly.
The pointer appears in the wrong place on the screen for where the
system actually thinks that it is.
I’m using the vmmouse driver part of the Xorg system, as the
regular mouse driver doesn’t appear to work at all, unless some
settings are amiss.
I really like the vmmouse drive because you can move the pointer in/
out of the window as you do with regular windows guest OSes.
Has anyone experienced similar problems and/ or know of a fix for
this?
Andrew,
I just set up VMWare Fusion with FreeBSD and have a problem that
might be related. Ascii art time:
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The pointer appears normally on the screen. However, clicking around
the screen does not work except in a small area in the top left
corner. Moving the mouse within this tiny corner seems to scale up
and operate on the entire screen. Eg. if I click and drag across the
tiny corner, I can see the selection appear across the entire
desktop.
Is this similar to your issue? Did you find a resolution?
Sam,
I ran into this problem on FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 with Xorg 7.3 using the
VMWare mouse driver (vmmouse).
Apparently, X server 1.4.0 in Xorg 7.3 no longer calls the
conversion_proc
function in the mouse driver. The VMWare mouse driver depends on that
call to scale the mouse coordiates to the screen size.
As a workaround, I fetched the x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse port and
patched src/vmmouse.c by hand before installing it:
bob polaris[9]: diff -u orig/xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/
vmmouse.c xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/vmmouse.c
--- orig/xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/vmmouse.c 2007-09-25
16:11:47.0 -0700
+++ xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/vmmouse.c 2008-01-08
14:58:59.0 -0800
@@ -964,8 +964,11 @@
VMMOUSE_INPUT_DATA vmmouseInput;
int ps2Buttons = 0;
int numPackets;
+ VMMousePrivPtr mPriv;
+ double factorX, factorY;
pMse = pInfo-private;
+ mPriv = pMse-mousePriv;
while((numPackets = VMMouseClient_GetInput(vmmouseInput))){
if (numPackets == VMMOUSE_ERROR) {
VMMouseClient_Disable();
@@ -990,6 +993,13 @@
dy = vmmouseInput.Y;
dz = (char)vmmouseInput.Z;
dw = 0;
+
+ /* X server 1.4.0 does not call VMMouseConvertProc() so we
scale coordinates here */
+ factorX = ((double) screenInfo.screens[mPriv-screenNum]-
width) / (double) 65535;
+ factorY = ((double) screenInfo.screens[mPriv-screenNum]-
height) / (double) 65535;
+ dx = dx * factorX + 0.5;
+ dy = dy * factorY + 0.5;
+
/* post an event */
pMse-PostEvent(pInfo, buttons, dx, dy, dz, dw);
}
Oh wow, I owe you a beer!
Any idea why this does not affect everyone using vmware?
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Re: need Linux help (watch and LVS)
On 04/11/2007, at 2:33 PM, C Thala wrote: Can someone tell me the FreeBSD equivalent of the Linux command watch. In Linux, watch is like top, but you can run it against any command and have it refresh every N seconds. There is a watch command in FreeBSD but it does something else entirely. You can do this using a simple shell loop. If you really need the GNU watch command it is available in ports as gnu-watch. Have a nice day Sam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg 7.2 and FreeBSD 6.2-p5 VMWARE vmmouse problem
On 10/07/2007, at 11:53 AM, Webster, Andrew wrote: Howdy, I was successfully able to get Xorg upgraded to 7.2 by just installing them from scratch as opposed to trying to upgrading an existing system, BUT I’ve run into a problem… While running VMWare Server 1.0.3 with FreeBSD 6.2-p5 and Xorg 7.2, the mouse pointer behaves very oddly. The pointer appears in the wrong place on the screen for where the system actually thinks that it is. I’m using the vmmouse driver part of the Xorg system, as the regular mouse driver doesn’t appear to work at all, unless some settings are amiss. I really like the vmmouse drive because you can move the pointer in/ out of the window as you do with regular windows guest OSes. Has anyone experienced similar problems and/ or know of a fix for this? Andrew, I just set up VMWare Fusion with FreeBSD and have a problem that might be related. Ascii art time: _ |_| | | | | | |___| The pointer appears normally on the screen. However, clicking around the screen does not work except in a small area in the top left corner. Moving the mouse within this tiny corner seems to scale up and operate on the entire screen. Eg. if I click and drag across the tiny corner, I can see the selection appear across the entire desktop. Is this similar to your issue? Did you find a resolution? Cheers Sam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd 7 release date :)
On 20/08/2007, at 10:47 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:05:00PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: just for reference only: Original release planned date of 7.0 was end of Jul. But now is nearly end of Aug. So Which date you guess 7.0 will be released? :D when it will be ready. if time is more important than quality for you get simply get -current. even if not - and you would like help testing it, fetch and report problems. There was obviously no intent to challenge or apply preasure in the question so you don't need to be snippy. If you don't have any useful information or at least information you think might be useful (qualifier for my posts) then don't bother replying - at least not snippy, posts. We can afford to be civil - expecially when a civil question is asked. The person was just noting that the old guesses were no longer operable and hoping that some new best guesses might have been made. We all know these dates are very movable and for very good reasons. No one is pushing for low quality, hurried up junk. But those best guesses by people in the know about how the processes if moving along are helpful for those of use out here in the hinterland trying to make it through each day. There was nothing snippy in that post, it was just succinct. By now, people in the know have learned that it really will be done when it's done. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't burn cds
On 27/07/2007, at 12:35 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On July 26, 2007 5:59:01 PM -0500 Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: camcontrol isn't going to know anything about IDE devices, it only knows about SCSI. So why does it show the first cd, which is also ide? The device listed by camcontrol seems to be an external hard drive. That said, I think it's possible for camcontrol to talk to IDE devices via atapicam. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make package-recursive
On 10/07/2007, at 7:41 PM, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Hello, I would like to create a custom set of packages, so that they will be installable to my other FreeBSD boxen. As I understand, I have to use 'make package-recursive', but I have some problems with it: 1. Is there a way to tell 'make package-recursive' not to _install_ package, but only build it? It is annonying and time-consuming to deinstall every package after it is installed. 2. To refer to the previous point: I need to deinstall the packages which I 'make package-recursive'-ed before, or else some other package which also depends on a port which is already installed will not include that (already installed) package. How to change this behaviour? I would like that the packages, which I create via 'make package-recursive', _always_ include _all_ other dependent packages. Thanks for your help. P.S.: Do you guys have any scripts for building a customized package set? You have to install a package in order to build it, since the package is built from the installed files. Some level of transformation and rearrangement occurs during the install process, so there's no easy way to package without installing. You can look in to using tinderbox (available from ports) to build packages inside a jail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Request for CTM assistance
On 06/06/2007, at 4:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mailer dropped cvs-cur.13428.gz 1/3. Could someone who uses CTM forward that e-mail to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Either that or could someone send an e-mail to that address with the whole file as an attachment? I don't have FTP access from my location and it will be months before I'm somewhere I can download it myself. Done! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on Apple Mac Mini?
On 03/06/2007, at 10:26 AM, Richard Tobin wrote: Does FreeBSD run well on the Mac Mini (x86)? I'm considering getting one to use for both MacOS and FreeBSD (booting from an external disk, if that's reasonable). Yep, it works fine. I used boot camp to create a small boot partition on the internal drive, and it loads everything else from an external USB drive. Thanks. A few more questions: - Any reason to prefer USB over Firewire? No, it's just what I had. - Do you have to use a boot partition on the internal disk? Can FreeBSD boot from external USB or Firewire? I am not sure. From what I understand, intel macs can boot from either USB or Firewire provided that they are partition using GPT. I used a boot partition on the external disk because I couldn't get it to work, and didn't care to spend much time on it. - Which release of FreeBSD are you using? 6.2-STABLE. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on Apple Mac Mini?
On 03/06/2007, at 8:02 PM, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 03/06/2007, at 10:26 AM, Richard Tobin wrote: Does FreeBSD run well on the Mac Mini (x86)? I'm considering getting one to use for both MacOS and FreeBSD (booting from an external disk, if that's reasonable). Yep, it works fine. I used boot camp to create a small boot partition on the internal drive, and it loads everything else from an external USB drive. Thanks. A few more questions: - Any reason to prefer USB over Firewire? No, it's just what I had. - Do you have to use a boot partition on the internal disk? Can FreeBSD boot from external USB or Firewire? I am not sure. From what I understand, intel macs can boot from either USB or Firewire provided that they are partition using GPT. I used a boot partition on the external disk because I couldn't get it to work, and didn't care to spend much time on it. s/external/internal/ above :-) - Which release of FreeBSD are you using? 6.2-STABLE. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on Apple Mac Mini?
On 03/06/2007, at 2:05 AM, Richard Tobin wrote: Does FreeBSD run well on the Mac Mini (x86)? I'm considering getting one to use for both MacOS and FreeBSD (booting from an external disk, if that's reasonable). Yep, it works fine. I used boot camp to create a small boot partition on the internal drive, and it loads everything else from an external USB drive. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fix this: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
On 27/05/2007, at 1:03 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Kyrre Nygård wrote: Hello! Is it possible to change: Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Over to: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. If so, how is it done? To have `All rights reserved.' apply to both copyright statements, it is necessary to break it down to the next line. It would also look a whole lot neater, as the last number of `1994' now aligns with the last letter of `reserved' using a monospaced font, which ends up looking kind of weird. Trust me on this one. Thank you, Kyrre Nygård + mir-visuals.com + snoarc.no Now why would you want to do that? That's cutting FreeBSD totally out of the picture, which isn't correct since they're the copyright owners of the FreeBSD project from 1992 to today. I think the point is to reformat the all rights reserved statement, rather than remove a copyright line. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome-libtool issue [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
On 16/05/2007, at 9:31 AM, Daniel Pottumati wrote: No, I wish I could upgrade. But for compatibility reasons with one piece of software here at work, I have to run 4.8... Any other sugestions??? Perhaps if you explained the compatibility issues, we can help you work around those. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome-libtool issue [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
On 15/05/2007, at 11:29 AM, Daniel Pottumati wrote: Hello, I've a 4.8 freebsd box, which I've update the ports tree with the current tree from the freebsd website and I'm trying to install tetex from the port directory: /usr/ports/print/teTeX and I get the following error during: make install /bin/sh /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig/work/gnome-libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../src -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/ include -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -fno-strict-aliasing -DFC_CACHEDIR='/var/db/fontconfig' -DFONTCONFIG_PATH='/usr/X11R6/etc/fonts'-O -pipe -c -o fcatomic.lo fcatomic.c gnome-libtool: unrecognized option `--tag=CC' Try `gnome-libtool --help' for more information. gmake[3]: *** [fcatomic.lo] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig/work/fontconfig-2.4.2/src' gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig/work/fontconfig-2.4.2/src' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig/work/fontconfig-2.4.2' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/p5-type1inst. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/cmpsfont. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/teTeX-texmf. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/teTeX. Can someone help me please? Are you able to upgrade the machine? FreeBSD 4.x is no longer supported, and 4.8 is very old. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot
On 14/05/2007, at 10:41 AM, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Sam Lawrance wrote: On 13/05/2007, at 6:15 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Sam Lawrance wrote: On 12/05/2007, at 8:59 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Landgren wrote: I have a disk that has only FreeBSD on it, and so I would like to skip the initial F1/FreeBSD prompt. boot0cfg -v ad0 says: options=nopacket,update,nosetdrv default_selection=F1 (Slice 1) ... what do I have to do to say JFDI instead of prompting? This is not the sort of thing I want to fiddle around experimenting, so a little guidance would be most appreciated. fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0 You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which gives you the 'press F1' business. Replace that with the standard mbr, which just boots straight up. Rather than replacing it, you can use boot0cfg to set a really short timeout instead; in case you might want that functionality one day. Heh. It's not like you only get one chance to rewrite the boot blocks on any particular drive. If anyone needs to (re-)install the FreeBSD boot blocks, then you can do very simply it by: boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0 or even fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0 Or if you need to boot from a serial console you can change / boot/boot0 to /boot/boot0sio Sure, but why get rid of it, when leaving it in with a short timeout costs you nothing. A fair point, but in this particular case, FreeBSD is the only thing on the drive, and likely to remain that way until the disk dies of mechanical failure. I just don't need that prompt, especially the annoying beep it makes. The beep was removed since May 2006 (6.2-RELEASE, 6-STABLE, HEAD). A simple #boot0cfg -B /dev/adX should get rid of it. I thought I remembered that! Wasn't it removed to reclaim a couple extra bytes? :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot
On 12/05/2007, at 8:59 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Landgren wrote: I have a disk that has only FreeBSD on it, and so I would like to skip the initial F1/FreeBSD prompt. boot0cfg -v ad0 says: options=nopacket,update,nosetdrv default_selection=F1 (Slice 1) ... what do I have to do to say JFDI instead of prompting? This is not the sort of thing I want to fiddle around experimenting, so a little guidance would be most appreciated. fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0 You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which gives you the 'press F1' business. Replace that with the standard mbr, which just boots straight up. Rather than replacing it, you can use boot0cfg to set a really short timeout instead; in case you might want that functionality one day. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot
On 13/05/2007, at 6:15 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Sam Lawrance wrote: On 12/05/2007, at 8:59 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Landgren wrote: I have a disk that has only FreeBSD on it, and so I would like to skip the initial F1/FreeBSD prompt. boot0cfg -v ad0 says: options=nopacket,update,nosetdrv default_selection=F1 (Slice 1) ... what do I have to do to say JFDI instead of prompting? This is not the sort of thing I want to fiddle around experimenting, so a little guidance would be most appreciated. fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0 You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which gives you the 'press F1' business. Replace that with the standard mbr, which just boots straight up. Rather than replacing it, you can use boot0cfg to set a really short timeout instead; in case you might want that functionality one day. Heh. It's not like you only get one chance to rewrite the boot blocks on any particular drive. If anyone needs to (re-)install the FreeBSD boot blocks, then you can do very simply it by: boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0 or even fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0 Or if you need to boot from a serial console you can change /boot/ boot0 to /boot/boot0sio Sure, but why get rid of it, when leaving it in with a short timeout costs you nothing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network interface restart
On 09/05/2007, at 8:31 PM, Bram Schoenmakers wrote: Hi, I tried to reduce the MTU of a network interface on a remote FreeBSD 6.2 machine. So that means changing this line in rc.conf: ifconfig_bge0=inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.128 to ifconfig_bge0=inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.128 mtu 1472 Of course, there's a real IP address set. Then, I tried to restart the network interface: /etc/rc.d/netif restart which went horribly wrong. I lost connection and wasn't able to reconnect. I tried to run this in some 'fallback' script, which automatically should restore the old configuration and restarting the network interface again after 5 minutes. Even if that failed, it should reboot the machine. But somehow the script was aborted, although I ran it in a 'screen' session over SSH. So the last resort was a manual reboot, which started the interface with MTU 1472 just fine. Could someone please point out where I made the mistake? When your network interface went down, you lost the connection, your shell lost the terminal and your script was terminated before it could finish doing what it was supposed to. Possibly you need to use something like nohup or screen (from ports), or have some other form of terminal available. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam
On 28/04/2007, at 7:25 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Bart Silverstrim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 1:58 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Christopher Hilton; Grant Peel; Eric Crist; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:15 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: There are legitimate technical reasons that someone may want their mail to not be greylisted. For example, my cell phone's e-mail address is in our monitoring scripts to page me in the event of a server failure. I would be pretty pissed off if Sprint suddenly started greylisting. It isn't just dumb-ass users making stupid political decisions to reject it, although in your case it probably was. If it is a legitimate mail server, it would be promoted to the auto- whitelist. Not all mail is constantly greylisted by most intelligent greylist systems. Only the first few messages would be delayed, until it is established as legitimate. That won't work in my case since I generally only have a failure that causes a problem which results in paging about once every 3 months or so. By the time the pages got through the greylist it would be at least an hour later after the system had gone down. That isn't acceptable for a notification system. Email is not an instant messaging system, no matter how much you want it to be one. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetching sources from Windows?
On 31/03/2007, at 12:57 AM, Joe Kraft wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:45:55PM -0500, frzburn wrote: Hi! I have a slow Internet connection at home, and I would like to know if it is possible to fetch the STABLE sources from somewhere else (ex.: at work). What I want is to get the latest sources, like described in the handbook ( http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ synching.html), even if it means downloading all of it, since there no way to diff with my current source... Basically, that is what I do. I only have a regular old phone modem at home. I take my home machine in to the office where I have a reliable 100 Mb/s and do my installs there. The only problem is fixing up IPs and host names. If I ever get rich and get a laptop with significant disk, I can just carry that and pull everything down to it and take it home to work on the desktop machine - or I could get one of those nice big USB drives and download everything to that. jerry I have a computer that's not connected to the internet that I keep up to date using CTM. I've subscribed to one of the ctm-XXX mail list with my work address and I just save the messages to a relatively small USB memory stick from the windows machine. Once I have the updates on there I bring the stick home and run ctm-rmail and it updates my source tree. It would have been even easier if I was able to get ftp access to get the CTM updates directly without resorting to using e-mail for the transfer. You can! The CTM deltas are available from FTP. You would have started out by getting an empty delta from FTP - and all the increments are located in the same place. There is more information in the handbook. Cheers Sam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Citrix ICA client problems - no keyboard response (weirdness)
Hi, I'm using the citrix ica client from ports to connect to a w2k server, and I'm seeing some weird behaviour. Almost all aspects of the connection seem fine - I can connect, get a logon screen, and if I supply credentials on the command line the login goes like it should. However, keyboard activity doesn't seem to be working. I can see the data going out when I type; but no response. Eg. at the logon screen, I can't type my username, tab between fields or anything. Any ideas or suggestions of what to do next appreciated. Regards Sam Lawrance. (please cc replies my way) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fixed - Citrix ICA client problems - no keyboard response (weirdness)
Problem solved - all I had to do was set the client keyboard type (netbsd worked for me) in Tools - Settings Regards Sam. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to structure a port with plugins
Hi all, (please cc replies to me) I'm writing a port for multisync. Included in the source tarball are a bunch of plugins for synchronising with various devices and programs. Not everbody is going to want them all. There's no existing mechanism to automatically build some or all of the plugins. What is the best way to build the plugins? I've thought of the doing the following: - Have a separate port for each plugin, depend on the main port for the source. This sure makes creating the packing list a lot simpler. - Build the plugins from the main port based in WITH_x variables Now I think about it the first option seems better, but I'd like to hear what anybody thinks. Thanks, -Sam Lawrance. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
