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Re: portversion vs. pkg_version
Mr. Lee: imho, portversion(uses the INDEX file to look up port versions) is like the desktop search(searh an index file), and the pkg_version( queries the port versions directly) is like the find command(search the entire disk);) use portversion instead, it's efficient cause it use port database. however, it will take a long time using portsdb to update the database file (the INDEX file) when you want to use portversion. ps,i like your essays on GNU/Linux, LaTex, etc. and I gain a lot from them Sherry Zhang On 12/24/06, Edward G.J. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What's the difference between `portversion' and `pkg_version -I'? Thanks. Edward ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ot] can I have an account on your host? (so that I can edit wikipedia)
hi,张�|武 imho. maybe you can use https instead if you can stand for the slow speed. but you'd better not do that for your safety:) btw, use tor to browse the wikipedia, there are several ways on how to edit wikipedia inside the great firewall. the great firewall is great! Sherry Zhang On 12/22/06, Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:59:59AM +0800, ? wrote: Hello. I am from China and I'd like to contribute to wikipedia, but this is not easy / possible because we cannot access wikipedia from inland (the great firewall) and my usual method accesssing wikipedia (through ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 my_server_in_german) can allow me to visit wikipedia but do not allow me to edit it (open proxy, your host IP address is detected to be belonging to a hosting company). Can I have an account on your host (or maybe not an account, any means let me access wikipedia from a host that is not in datacenter) so that I can go on editing wikipedia? I think you need tor Wikipedia doesn't allow edits coming from known Tor exit nodes. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About how the GUI should look like after installation!
On 11/2/06, Evans Durandisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am brand new to unix. I m a beginner student in computer engineering. I wanted to install freeBSD since there's such a fuss about it. I got the iso images and mounted them on a CD with Alcohol 120. I installed freebsd without much configuration. I answered 'no' when asked to configure things what could be configured later. But I do not know if I installed it right, eventhough I tried to follow the instructions from the handbook. When I open my computer, after installation, there's the screen that asked if I want to start freebsd or dos. So I choose freebsd. Then, I logged in and typed 'startx' to start the gui (that's what I should do! right!). Consequently, it'd been loaded. I am just seeing four comand shells. That's all I can see! No taskbars! No background picture (greying grinded dots: like pixels in a low definition image). There're just four squared box (shell). My mouse worked! But there's nothing it can be used for. I tried to work myself over that by typing some commands. But I don't know that much of the Unix language; so it's been to no avail! So my question is should I get this kind of graphic environment? or something missing in the installation. I have an intel D845GLVA motherboard with a Pent IV, integrated video card, Samsung SyncMaster 753DF (maybe it's the hardware). But I didn't get any error message for that. Thank you for considering helping! Have a good day! Evans ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Evans it seems that every thing works fine! if you want a desktop enviroment, simply link to the internet, and type pkg_add -r gnome2 or something else. then without much configuration, you can use the gnome desktop environment. please follow the handbook (see /usr/share/doc) and you will be able to explore more. Sherry Zhang ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there any highly compressed filesystems [like squashfs] supported directedly by FreeBSD?
Hi,all: We built a software for GNU/Linux system and use squashfs file system to fit 1.5G files into a single CD. to use the CD, just mount -o loop /dev/cdrom /mnt mount -o loop -t squashfs /mnt/file.squash /the/path will do the job. Now we also want include the BSD binary. I switched to freebsd 2 weeks ago and do not know anything abount it. so I want to ask is there any highly compressed filesystem like cramfs or squashfs [we think a live CD should not ask a user to install any software, so filesystems directedly supported by FreeBSD are perferred] ? Which one is better [I mean compression rate] ? Can anyone gives me a hint? Thank you Sherry Zhang ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WordPress, Apache, modules, mod_rewrite - how to verify?
Nick: for mod_php, please take a look at the FreeBSD handbook chapter 25, 25.7.5.2.2 mod_php * written by Tom Rhodes.* Sherry Zhang On 10/30/06, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking on the web for hours but haven't found any help, though of asking on some forums when I suddenly remembered! There's freebsd-questions!! Anyway, I'm a MS SQL Server guy, trying to mess around with FreeBSD at home. I've managed to install 6.1, CVSup, xorg, KDE, Apache 1.3. I haven't touched this box for a while due to my work schedule, now I'm trying to pick up where I left off... I just install ed WordPress from ports, trying to use it to learn PHP and MySQL. (At work, I'm almost 100% SQL Server only! I'm hoping to change to a Linux / Oracle, Data Warehouse type of position but outside of work, I would like to learn some PHP, Perl and MySQL... may be start a little side web biz or something...) So, main question: WordPress requires PHP 4 and MySQL 3 or later, and optional mod_rewrite. How do I verify if these are installed? I used pkg_version -v to check my installed ports' versions, I have these: apache-1.3.37_1 mod_perl-1.29_1 mysql-client-5.1.11 perl-5.8.8 php5-5.1.4 php5-mysql-5.1.4 php5-pcre-5.1.4 php5-xml-5.1.4 wordpress-2.0.4_1,1 I think I still need to install mod_php and mod_rewrite, but I can't see them in /usr/ports/www How do I verify that php, MySql and mod_rewrite are install and function properly in Apache? Thanks! Nick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there any highly compressed filesystems [like squashfs] supported directedly by FreeBSD?
Vince thx for reply, I think it use cloop. and I know how to mount cloop in GNU/Linux just mount -t cloop will do . but how can I do it in freebsd? Sherry Zhang On 10/30/06, Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sherry Zhang wrote: Hi,all: We built a software for GNU/Linux system and use squashfs file system to fit 1.5G files into a single CD. to use the CD, just mount -o loop /dev/cdrom /mnt mount -o loop -t squashfs /mnt/file.squash /the/path will do the job. Now we also want include the BSD binary. I switched to freebsd 2 weeks ago and do not know anything abount it. so I want to ask is there any highly compressed filesystem like cramfs or squashfs [we think a live CD should not ask a user to install any software, so filesystems directedly supported by FreeBSD are perferred] ? Which one is better [I mean compression rate] ? Can anyone gives me a hint? I think you want mkuzip (and geom_uzip) have a read on man mkuzip and see what you think. Not sure how good the compression is though. Might be worth talking to the freesbie people (http://www.freesbie.org/) as i think they may use this and they're the FreeBSD liveCD experts ;) Vince Thank you Sherry Zhang ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there any highly compressed filesystems [like squashfs] supported directedly by FreeBSD?
thx, I'll man it:) On 10/31/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sherry Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi,all: We built a software for GNU/Linux system and use squashfs file system to fit 1.5G files into a single CD. to use the CD, just mount -o loop /dev/cdrom /mnt mount -o loop -t squashfs /mnt/file.squash /the/path will do the job. Now we also want include the BSD binary. I switched to freebsd 2 weeks ago and do not know anything abount it. so I want to ask is there any highly compressed filesystem like cramfs or squashfs [we think a live CD should not ask a user to install any software, so filesystems directedly supported by FreeBSD are perferred] ? Which one is better [I mean compression rate] ? Can anyone gives me a hint? geom_uzip(4) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question on my screen resolution
On 10/31/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Shute wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:37:47AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Sherry Zhang wrote: Dear Lane: thank you for reply my xorg.conf snip 60+kB of crap This is probably an xorg issue, not freebsd-specific. But send a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log, just for giggles. lane I think what Lane meant was: 1. Change video driver to ati or fglx (or whatever the Opengl version of the ati driver is). there is no fglrx driver for BSD. what's more, ati driver or radeon driver are too old for my video card. when I use these, I cannot load X. it says glx missing. but I do have it. 2. Copy that /var/log/Xorg.0.log here (or link to the file from another site to reduce the size of the email). Also, please bottom post. Thanks! -Garrett You admonish a poster for top posting and suggest linking to logs rather than posting them. sorry for my poor mail habits I wont next time:) I agree. Yet simultaneously you include a huge amount of superfluous garbage in your own post. What gives? It was just laziness / forgetfulness most likely that caused that garbage dump. Doh! Don't you eat your own dog food? ;) I tend not to eat kibbles and bits, but obviously that's what I did. Lol. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
question on my screen resolution
Hello everyone: I am running freebsd 6.1 release on my Dell 6400 laptop computer. It has a 1280x800 wide-screen resolution. The video card I use is ATI Radeon Mobility X1300. But I failed to adjust the screen resolution. I follow the instructions in the FreeBSD handbook, but failed. First I add 1280x800 into Modes, but still 1024x768 Later I add Virtual 1280 800 just after the Modes, X mass up the screen, I can not see anything. Last, I run gtf and get a ModeLine, and added into the xorg.conf, and also use Modes 1280x800, and again it display in 1024x768. The drive I use is vesa because when I use radeon or ati, I cannot get into X. it says glx not found or something and guess ati or radeon driver does not support my X1300 video card. can anyone gives me a hint? thx. Sherry Zhang ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GTKMozEmbed with linux-firefox
Norberto:
I am a newbie and maybe I do not know how to answer your question. but I
just follow the FreeBSD handbook chapter 6 [6.2.3 Firefox Mozilla, and Java
plugin] and have the flash plugin installed. it works fine. maybe you can
have a try?
Sherry Zhang
with best regards
On 10/30/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone,
I use www/linux-firefox as my standard browser, as www/firefox doesn't
support
flash.
/etc/make.conf has
WITH_MOZILLA=firefox
WITH_GECKO=firefox
I am trying to install devel/devhelp, and I bumped into these issues:
1) it requires ${LOCALBASE}/lib/${MOZILLA}/components/libwidget_gtk2.so
(and
if not present, it tries to install www/${MOZILLA} ) . linux-firefox
doesn't
include libwidget_gtk2.so , but nvu (which I have installed) does.
I solved this issue by symlinking nvu's libwidget_gtk2.so to the expected
firefox location.
so.. 2) when building devhelp, it sees libwidget_gtk2.so and it moves
ahead...
until
[...]
checking LIBDEVHELP_LIBS... -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -pthread
-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgnomevfs-2 -lgconf-2 -lORBit-2
-lgthread-2.0 -lglade-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lxml2 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lXrandr -lXi
-lXinerama -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lXcursor -lXfixes
-lcairo -lpangoft2-1.0 -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lz -lpango-1.0 -lm
-lXrender
-lX11 -lXext -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -liconv checking which
mozilla to use... firefox checking for firefox-gtkmozembed = 0.10
firefox-xpcom = 0.10... Package firefox-gtkmozembed was not found in the
pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing
`firefox-gtkmozembed.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No
package
'firefox-gtkmozembed' found Package firefox-xpcom was not found in the
pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing
`firefox-xpcom.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package
'firefox-xpcom' found configure: error: Library requirements
(firefox-gtkmozembed = 0.10 firefox-xpcom = 0.10) not met; consider
adjusting
the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a
nonstandard
prefix so pkg-config can find them.
[...]
Again, gtkmozembed is available from nvu, but not the .pc (no biggie I
suppose)...
anyway, the question is : is hter a way I can have the missing components
(so
far, libwidget_gtk2 , gtkmozembed, mozembed, xpcom ) *without* having to
install the native firefox ?
Would this be possible to do with a new port? (i.e., www/firefox with a
special
config to only build these objects... would it be useful ?
thanks,
_
{Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome
Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be
very
selective about who it decides to make friends with.
I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when
wet.
Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have
been
Warned.
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Re: question on my screen resolution
Lane: but actually I think it _is_ a problem of freebsd. when I use Debian GNU/Linux operating system without the ATI fglrx driver installed, I use the similar xorg.conf [remove the Modes 1280x800 and Modeline] and add Virtual 1280 800 and everything works file. but I try the same method in freebsd, only to find it failed to work. what's more, i have the libglx.so module. actually mesa, ati, and radeon driver does not support x1300. it also says failed to load glx module when I use Debian GNU/Linux, so only the 3D won't work. but it doesn't matter, I just want to change the screen resolution. but i will take your advice and have a look at the xorg homepage. thx. Sherry Zhang On 10/30/06, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 20:08, you wrote: Dear Lane: Thanks for reply. my xorg.conf is posted here Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDevice Mouse0 CorePointer snip it says glx not found or something and guess ati or radeon driver does not support my X1300 video card. can anyone gives me a hint? thx. Sherry Zhang Sherry, This is probably an xorg issue, not freebsd-specific. But send a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log, just for giggles. lane Yeah, Sherry. I'm outta my league. I recommend that you check out http://wiki.X.Org to see if and how this card is supported. It's clear from your /var/log/Xorg.0.log that glx is not being loaded. Probably you don't have: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so But I'm not sure what knob causes that to be compiled. Nor am I even sure that your X1300 card is supported. Check with the wiki and post back to freebsd-questions if you get an answer. Again, sorry I can't be of any help. lane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
