Re: libsndfile portupgrade cuts sound... :-(

2009-03-11 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:03:49PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Today, I successfully portupgraded libsndfile, but afterwards I noticed that my sound doesn't work anymore. Running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0 and have a '82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio' sound card. Before it was

Re: libsndfile portupgrade cuts sound... :-(

2009-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
:) Nope, no sound coming out of my speakers. I was a bit worried that it was my audio card died on me but booting from another external HD with FreeBSD, everything seems to work fine. I'll portupgrade the other HD also to verify if the same issue occurs. run mixer and check if it's not

Re: libsndfile portupgrade cuts sound... :-(

2009-03-11 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:38:29AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: :) Nope, no sound coming out of my speakers. I was a bit worried that it was my audio card died on me but booting from another external HD with FreeBSD, everything seems to work fine. I'll portupgrade the other HD also to

Re: port nasm wont upgrade

2009-03-11 Thread Brent Clark
Lowell Gilbert wrote: You seem to be be missing /usr/ports/devel/nasm/distinfo. You can re-create it with make makesum, but that would defeat the point of checking file integrity in the first place. Besides, if you have a missing (or corrupted) file in your ports tree, there may be others. If

Re: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libxcb.so.1 not found, required by libcairo.so.2

2009-03-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Noah wrote: Robert Huff wrote: Noah writes: rebuilding emacs using portupgrade is dying and claiming I am missing a library. What shall I do? /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libxcb.so.1 not found, required by libcairo.so.2 Have you: 1) updated your whole ports tree?

Re: Is there a roadmap for FreeBSD ?

2009-03-11 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:25:12 + (GMT), Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org: Personally I don't think roadmaps are all that usefull for open source projects that depend on volunteer work. Volunteers tend to work on an area that either scratches an itch for them or that interests them.

Re: iSCSI initiator lockups

2009-03-11 Thread Danny Braniss
--VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In our last exciting episode, Danny Braniss (da...@cs.huji.ac.il) said: I guess it's time to fix this. danny Thank you very much for the pointer

Re: Is there a roadmap for FreeBSD ?

2009-03-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Patrick Lamaizi?re wrote: Le Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:25:12 + (GMT), Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org: Personally I don't think roadmaps are all that usefull for open source projects that depend on volunteer work. Volunteers tend to work on an area that either

Re: Is NFS Locking Reliable?

2009-03-11 Thread perryh
Our NFS servers for user home directories are on FreeBSD (6.4), MacOSX (10.5), Linux (still 2.4 kernel) and Tru64-UNIX boxes; NFS clients are mostly Linux (2.6 kernel) and FreeBSD (6.4, 7.0, but w/o kernel lockd) systems. I have seen problems with NFS locking even in completely homogeneous

bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread prad
i've not paid much attention to licensing philosophy i the past, because for me it was always windoze vs the goodguys. however, recently i've become aware of there being a chasm within the goodguys in that the bsd attitude is do what you want as long as you give credit to the creator, whereas the

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

2009-03-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, However, I am going to use 7.1-STABLE on them. I see no reason why you should run 6.4 at all though. What's your motivation towards thaat angle? I suggest you install the 7.1 and update it to -STABLE then see if anything changes as regards the CPU (est message), while we wait for

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:20 AM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: however, recently i've become aware of there being a chasm within the goodguys in that the bsd attitude is do what you want as long as you give credit to the creator, whereas the gpl folks say do what you want as long as you

torrent client traffic shaping question

2009-03-11 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya I got this question to ask, and I was hoping the TCP/IP gurus would be able to help me understand this. K you know how with traffic shapping you can control only the traffic leaving you, how it is that torrent clients say they can control the download as well as the upload. I would think

Re: torrent client traffic shaping question

2009-03-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, K you know how with traffic shapping you can control only the traffic leaving you, how it is that torrent clients say they can control the download as well as the upload. I would think the client can only control the upload. Maybe torrent protocol includes something where by the client

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
Olivier Nicole wrote: [snip] And I stick to RELENG, not STABLE, because I want to patch security bugs, but I most probably does not need all the new bells and whistles of STABLE: this is a production server, I prefer to modify the machine as least as possible, unless it is expressely needed

driver for wifi as usb device

2009-03-11 Thread Michal Kulczewski
Hi, I'm struggling with installation of driver for my wifi visible as usb device (hp 8730w laptop) on both, 7.1 and 8.0, versions of FreeBSD. I've tried to use Windows drivers with no significant effect (still, USB wifi is not assigned with the driver). Has anyone succeeded in resolving similar

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:20 AM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: do people here have any thoughts on the two different licenses? -- In friendship, prad This is NOT a simple issue . In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_licences

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i've not paid much attention to licensing philosophy i the past, because for me it was always windoze vs the goodguys. however, recently i've become aware of there being a chasm within the goodguys in that the bsd attitude is do what you want as long as you give credit to the creator, whereas

Re: torrent client traffic shaping question

2009-03-11 Thread Brent Clark
Olivier Nicole wrote: Maybe torrent protocol includes something where by the client tells its peers to send data at a slower rate. Traffic shaping is done at IP or TCP level, while the up/down load speed is managed at the client level. Bests, Olivier Hi I posted the same Q on netfilters

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

2009-03-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, why not simply use /amd64? You mean he changes the CPU? All CPUs generally shipped from Dell anymore are 64bit capable. Do you have the original specs (take the service tag, go to dell support - warranty - original system config) and paste that. It gives chip IDs that we can use

Re: torrent client traffic shaping question

2009-03-11 Thread RW
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:13:16 +0200 Brent Clark brentgclarkl...@gmail.com wrote: Hiya I got this question to ask, and I was hoping the TCP/IP gurus would be able to help me understand this. K you know how with traffic shapping you can control only the traffic leaving you, how it is that

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-11 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:24:24 +, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon I can't seem to find usbconf. % usbconf usbconf: Command not found. % whereis usbconf usbconf: Is it a third party application? My mistake, sorry. Of course it's usbdevs, a tool that comes

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, why not simply use /amd64? You mean he changes the CPU? All CPUs generally shipped from Dell anymore are 64bit capable. Do you have the original specs (take the service tag, go to dell support - warranty - original system config) and paste that. It gives

p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation is corrupt!

2009-03-11 Thread Noah
Hi there, I am trying to remove p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation. How do I do it? # portmanager -u -y rCreateInstalledDbVerifyContentsFile 0.4.1_9 error: @comment ORIGIN: not found in /var/db/pkg/p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01/+CONTENTS p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation is corrupt!

Re: p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation is corrupt!

2009-03-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
I am trying to remove p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation. How do I do it? # portmanager -u -y rCreateInstalledDbVerifyContentsFile 0.4.1_9 error: @comment ORIGIN: not found in /var/db/pkg/p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01/+CONTENTS p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation is corrupt!

Re: p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation is corrupt!

2009-03-11 Thread Noah
yes # pkg_delete -f p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 pkg_delete: package 'p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled (but I'll delete it anyway): p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5_1 pkg_delete: package 'p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01' doesn't have a prefix Olivier Nicole wrote: I

Re: p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation is corrupt!

2009-03-11 Thread Noah
yes and I still get the error again when running portmanager # pkg_delete -f p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 pkg_delete: package 'p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled (but I'll delete it anyway): p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5_1 pkg_delete: package

reinstall package with portinstall

2009-03-11 Thread Noah
Hi there, how can I reinstall a package that could be the same version as the currently Install version with portinstall or portupgrade? Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

port: multimedia/recordmydesktop

2009-03-11 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Any experience or comments about the port multimedia/recordmydesktop? I can't access the web site http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/ that's why I'm asking; to the Cc'ed maintainer of the port: the web site mentioned in pkg-descr does not exist anymore; Thx matthias -- Matthias

Re: reinstall package with portinstall

2009-03-11 Thread RW
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:14:58 -0700 Noah adm...@enabled.com wrote: Hi there, how can I reinstall a package that could be the same version as the currently Install version with portinstall or portupgrade? portupgrade -f ___

Re: reinstall package with portinstall

2009-03-11 Thread Remorque
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Noah adm...@enabled.com wrote: Hi there, how can I reinstall a package that could be the same version as the currently Install version with portinstall or portupgrade? man portupgrade If the install location conflicts, you have to deinstall one, then

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:20:18AM -0700, prad wrote: i've not paid much attention to licensing philosophy i the past, because for me it was always windoze vs the goodguys. however, recently i've become aware of there being a chasm within the goodguys in that the bsd attitude is do what you

Re: p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation is corrupt!

2009-03-11 Thread FreeBSD List
Try doing a pkg_deinstall -pf p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 And if that fails, I guess you could try as a last resort rm -Rf /var/db/pkg/p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 and then reinstall the package and do a regular pkg_delete -f p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 -- Jacques Manukyan Noah wrote: yes and I still get the

acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread David Banning
I have installed acroread8 with no errors, however on execution I get the following error; /usr/local/Adobe/Reader8/ENU/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory the file

How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Peter Steele
I want to have a process running on my FreeBSD box that automatically detects when a USB drive is inserted. What's the easiest way to accomplish this? I know I could simply monitor /var/log/messages and look for the appropriate events to appear, but is there a more elegant way?

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:02:47 -0500, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: The source code is always free under BSD, contrary to what GPL proponents claim. Terms like enslavement of code come into mind, BSD thieves and others... But this isn't only the case with BSDL. The MIT uses a similar

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:42:04 -0700 (PDT), Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: I want to have a process running on my FreeBSD box that automatically detects when a USB drive is inserted. What's the easiest way to accomplish this? I know I could simply monitor /var/log/messages and look

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
devd.conf On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Peter Steele wrote: I want to have a process running on my FreeBSD box that automatically detects when a USB drive is inserted. What's the easiest way to accomplish this? I know I could simply monitor /var/log/messages and look for the appropriate events to

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
David Banning wrote: I have installed acroread8 with no errors, however on execution I get the following error; /usr/local/Adobe/Reader8/ENU/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That's why the GPL is often called a viral license. As GPL is a communist licence. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Peter Steele
My question to you would be: What exactly do you mean by automatically detect? The drive *is* automatically detected. Should it be mounted afterwards? Yeah, I guess my wording was a little vague. I know that the system automatically detects when a USB drive is inserted, and creates the

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Peter Steele
This looks like it will do exactly what I need. Thanks for the pointer! - Original Message - From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:08:20 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-11 Thread Masoom Shaikh
devinfo -v On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:29 AM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used dmesg and var/run/dmesg.boot, it didn't seem to help that much as I expected. which file lists all of hardware in the machine? Thanks.

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Eitan Adler
Reader Chemisor advances a theory in his journal that a linguistic misunderstanding is at the root of many disagreements over different licensing philosophies, in particular BSD vs. GPL. The argument is that GPL adherents desire the freedom of their /code/, while those on the BSD side want freedom

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 16:09 11/03/2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: That's why the GPL is often called a viral license. As GPL is a communist licence. No, even communist are more generous ... --- Useful Acronyms: GPL = Greedy Pengüin Licence

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
At 16:09 11/03/2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: That's why the GPL is often called a viral license. As GPL is a communist licence. No, even communist are more generous ... It's not funny. Communism is common today, and it's getting stronger from day they just changed to names to hide.

Re: SYSCALL_MODULE macro modified?

2009-03-11 Thread T.
T. wrote: Found 7.0's sysent.h file modified at the commonly used SYSCALL_MODULE macro, wasn't sure how I should modify my code to accommodate the change so changed the sysent.h (yikes!). No biggy right? Removed the AUE_NULL. That's all that's been added. But the argument was NULL, so what the

Re: p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation is corrupt!

2009-03-11 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:13:33 -0700 Noah adm...@enabled.com wrote: yes and I still get the error again when running portmanager # pkg_delete -f p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 pkg_delete: package 'p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled (but I'll delete it

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:10:46AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote: My question to you would be: What exactly do you mean by automatically detect? The drive *is* automatically detected. Should it be mounted afterwards? Yeah, I guess my wording was a little vague. I know that the system

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread David Banning
Michael Powell wrote: David Banning wrote: I have installed acroread8 with no errors, however on execution I get the following error; /usr/local/Adobe/Reader8/ENU/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Peter Steele
Last week I submitted a patch to get this system and subsystem documented in the manual page of devd.conf. It should be in CURRENT now, and will be MFC'd to STABLE in a week or so. This looks like exactly what we need, except we're using 7.0, and are too close to releasing 1.0 of our

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:49:18AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote: Last week I submitted a patch to get this system and subsystem documented in the manual page of devd.conf. It should be in CURRENT now, and will be MFC'd to STABLE in a week or so. This looks like exactly what we need, except

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Mike Clarke
On Wednesday 11 March 2009, Peter Steele wrote: Yeah, I guess my wording was a little vague. I know that the system automatically detects when a USB drive is inserted, and creates the appropriate entries under /dev. I want to follow this up with having the drive automatically mounted, and

Disabling write cache on eSATA enclosures

2009-03-11 Thread Dan
Hi. atacontrol is reporting that the write cache on an eSATA enclosure I am using (Silicon Image chipset) with Silicon Image SATA controller has write cache enabled even though I want it disabled in loader.conf. My feeling is this has to be controlled by the enclosure, though such control doesn't

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Peter Steele
It's missing the call to devctl_notify in the devfs handling. This was added to RELENG_7 on the 28th of May 2008. You'll need at least rev. 1.208.2.4 of /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_conf.c. See: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/kern_conf.c?f=uonly_with_tag=RELENG_7logsort=date

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:49:18AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote: Last week I submitted a patch to get this system and subsystem documented in the manual page of devd.conf. It should be in CURRENT now, and will be MFC'd to STABLE in a week or so. This looks like exactly what we need, except

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Peter Steele
The scripts are a bit primitive and get totally confused if I insert more than one USB storage device at a time so would need some refinement for general use but work OK for me as the only user on this PC. Thanks, I'll give this a try and see how it works. We have a very simple requirement

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 06:09:24PM +, Mike Clarke wrote: snip The scripts are a bit primitive and get totally confused if I insert more than one USB storage device at a time so would need some refinement for general use but work OK for me as the only user on this PC. If you give the

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:13:08AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote: It's missing the call to devctl_notify in the devfs handling. This was added to RELENG_7 on the 28th of May 2008. You'll need at least rev. 1.208.2.4 of /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_conf.c. See:

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Peter Steele
Then try another solution: a cron job, as explained in another msg. Yeah, that's probably the simplest approach. This was my first thought, but I figured there'd be a more elegant way of doing it if I could tie into the drive insert event ___

reclaiming /var capacity?

2009-03-11 Thread j.
Where did my capacity go and how can I get it back? deathray# du -sh /var 70M/var deathray# df -h /var FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0d 248M214M 15M94%/var Thanks, --j. ___

Re: reclaiming /var capacity?

2009-03-11 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 02:30:08PM -0400, j. wrote: Where did my capacity go and how can I get it back? deathray# du -sh /var 70M/var deathray# df -h /var FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0d 248M214M 15M94%/var Thanks, --j.

Re: reclaiming /var capacity?

2009-03-11 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:30 PM, j. 2fo...@gmail.com wrote: Where did my capacity go and how can I get it back? deathray# du -sh /var 70M/var deathray# df -h /var FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0d 248M214M 15M94%/var Thanks,

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
David Banning wrote: [snip] Please forgive if I seem a trifle dense, but how did you go about installing? If done using the ports system, as part of the process linux_compat and various linux-* ports should have installed as dependencies. Perhaps the install succeeded but left out

Re: reclaiming /var capacity?

2009-03-11 Thread jamgill
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Yuri Pankov yuri.pan...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 02:30:08PM -0400, j. wrote: Where did my capacity go and how can I get it back? deathray# du -sh /var 70M/var deathray# df -h /var FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread prad
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:20:18 -0700 prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: do people here have any thoughts on the two different licenses? thank you everyone for your comments on this topic. the links some of you provided were very interesting and helpful. i had no idea there were so many licenses

Re: reclaiming /var capacity?

2009-03-11 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 03:23:50PM -0400, jamgill wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Yuri Pankov yuri.pan...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 02:30:08PM -0400, j. wrote: Where did my capacity go and how can I get it back? deathray# du -sh /var 70M/var

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Mike Clarke
On Wednesday 11 March 2009, Roland Smith wrote: If you give the msdosfs filesystem a unique label (with e.g. mlabel from emulators/mtools), you'll get a unique device in /dev/msdosfs/. Yes, but sometimes I'll be transferring data to or from someone else's USB stick so I can't make any

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:37:07 -0400 David Banning wrote: Michael Powell wrote: David Banning wrote: I have installed acroread8 with no errors, however on execution I get the following error; /usr/local/Adobe/Reader8/ENU/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while

Re: Disabling write cache on eSATA enclosures

2009-03-11 Thread FreeBSD List
I've got an external eSATA enclosure as well which is using a Silicon Image Chipset and its connected to a Silicon Image SATA controller just like yours. So far, I haven't figured out how to turn off the write cache. I even tried playing with it on Windows (both XP Vista) and so far, there is

Freeze on bootstrap loader (CD) using ATA/133 Promise FastTrak TX2000

2009-03-11 Thread Mathieu Chappuis
Hello, I'm stopped on first step of boot for install FreeBSD from CD/DVD.. The first indicator | freezes, not rotating.. Tried with FreeBSD 7.1 i386, amd64. (DVD and CD) FreeBSD 7.0 bootstrap give more info, but freeze at the same step, giving a sort of register dump with tons of es: 0

Ports Collection

2009-03-11 Thread Mario PNH
I really liked the FreeBSD running on my ASUS desktop, until I tried to install gnome2 and I was surprised that it never finished it, during which it created some 20 and more user groups like 'nobody', 'anonymous', 'aiviah', 'games', etc ... and I am wondering if that was a normal process. # cd

Can't work out which disk we are booting from

2009-03-11 Thread Dragos
Hi, I have installed freebsd 7.1 on a 8GB usb flash drive. Now, it seems that the freebsd loader is unable to identify the usb disk where is booting from(da0s1a). The loader runs fine from the stick but gets confused on the drive it runs from, and the kernel it's not loaded. Here is what

USB Port getting disabled on Boot

2009-03-11 Thread Warren Liddell
Im running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 an each time i boot my machine i have to unplug every USB device otherwise it disables the USB port and quite frankly its a very big nuisence since nearly all i use is USB ... is there anything i can do to prevent//curtail this issue ?

Re: reclaiming /var capacity?

2009-03-11 Thread jamgill
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Jonathan Chen j...@chen.org.nz wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 03:23:50PM -0400, jamgill wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Yuri Pankov yuri.pan...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 02:30:08PM -0400, j. wrote: Where did my capacity go and

Problem with installing curl/xine

2009-03-11 Thread manish jain
Hi all, I was trying to install xine on my FreeBSD 7.1 system. At one point, it came up with an options dialog (curses-based) where I enabled GNU TLS. Since then, xine stops compilation with the following error : curl-7.19.2 may use GNU TLS only if OpenSSL support is disabled. Error code 1 I

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced members would like to recommend wherein . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based) .

Problem with installing acroread8

2009-03-11 Thread manish jain
Hi all, I got another problem I can't solve on my own. I was trying to install acroread8 from /usr/ports and came up with the following : === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if x11-toolkits/linux-pango already installed cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-pango/work

Re: Problem with installing curl/xine

2009-03-11 Thread RW
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:34:57 +0530 manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I was trying to install xine on my FreeBSD 7.1 system. At one point, it came up with an options dialog (curses-based) where I enabled GNU TLS. Since then, xine stops compilation with the following error

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread David Banning
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:37:07 -0400 David Banning wrote: Michael Powell wrote: David Banning wrote: I have installed acroread8 with no errors, however on execution I get the following error;

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote: HP nc6320 (google RH383ET) - most things work, including wifi and ethernet, except for the following: From HP site, Network Integrated Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet PCI Controller (10/100/1000 NIC) Wireless Broadcom

[News] Dabber Newsletter - March 2009

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel Daboczy - DABBER
Dabber Newsletter New collaboration with Berns Salonger We are very proud to present a new collaboration Dabber has started collaboration with Berns Salonger, a critically acclaime= d famous Swedish landmark and nightclub in the heart of Stockholm. The nigh= tclub has a vast

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:25:28 + (GMT) From: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mob...@freebsd.org On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote: HP nc6320 (google RH383ET) - most things work, including wifi and ethernet, except for the following:

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, prad wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:20:18 -0700 prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: do people here have any thoughts on the two different licenses? thank you everyone for your comments on this topic. the links some of you provided were very interesting and helpful.

Release-7.0 named and dhcpd

2009-03-11 Thread Greg.Stark
I am getting the following messages on a bind server running Release-7.0: Mar 11 23:05:56 nameserver named[674]: client 192.168.xxx.xxx#49165: update 'domain.local/IN' denied Mar 11 23:05:56 nameserver dhcpd: if desktop.domain.local IN A rrset doesn't exist add desktop.domain.local 1800 IN A

Re: Release-7.0 named and dhcpd

2009-03-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Greg, The desktops that grab an address from the DHCP pool are not getting added in for named resolution. I am apparently missing something with the communication between named and dhcpd. Any help would be appreciated. There are many reasons why the dhcpd cannot communicate with named,

RE: Release-7.0 named and dhcpd

2009-03-11 Thread Stark, Greg
No, this is my first attempt with named and dhcpd. Each one seems to be fine separately but getting them to talk has been a stumbling block. Thanks, Greg Greg Stark -- Sent from my Windows Mobile® phone. -Original Message- From: Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th Sent: Thursday, March

Re: torrent client traffic shaping question

2009-03-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:42:23 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:13:16 +0200 Brent Clark brentgclarkl...@gmail.com wrote: Hiya I got this question to ask, and I was hoping the TCP/IP gurus would be able to help me understand this. K you know

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:30:47 -0400 David Banning wrote: Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:37:07 -0400 David Banning wrote: Michael Powell wrote: David Banning wrote: I have installed acroread8 with no errors, however on execution I get the following