Re: Problems with FreeBSD assembly

2009-11-12 Thread perryh
Mihai Don??u mihai.do...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think the kernel is the one that initializes the 0, 1 and 2 file descriptors (stdin, stdout and stderr). Correct so far. I think you have to open them yourself ... No, the shell does it. That's how it is able to set up pipes and redirection.

Re: atom based servers

2009-11-12 Thread Robin Becker
David Rawling wrote: Hi Brian Indeed, I have a FreeBSD 8.0RC1 system running as my primary time server for the home network. Since it's an Atom 330, it fully supports 64-bit mode (an opportunity I have grasped with both hands). I have one of the Acer ION gadgets running at home and

where's my konqueror?

2009-11-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I installed kdebase-4.3.1_1, but cannot find konqueror. It's supposed be a part of kdebase, isn't it? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: Can I prevent freebsd-update from installing kernel debug files

2009-11-12 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2009-11-11 12:35:55 UTC-0600, Jason Fried (r...@churchofbsd.org) wrote: I have a fairly old install and not much room on my ROOT is there a way to prevent freebsd-update from installing .symbols files. In /etc/freebsd-update.conf: IgnorePaths /boot/kernel/*.symbols From reading the

Re: where's my konqueror?

2009-11-12 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I installed  kdebase-4.3.1_1, but cannot find konqueror. It's supposed be a part of kdebase, isn't it? % grep konqueror /usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/pkg-plist bin/konqueror lib/libkdeinit4_konqueror.so [...] --Herbert

Re: where's my konqueror?

2009-11-12 Thread usleepless
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra h.sku...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I installed kdebase-4.3.1_1, but cannot find konqueror. It's supposed be a part of kdebase, isn't it? % grep konqueror

RE: atom based servers

2009-11-12 Thread David Rawling
Robin Becker opined: ... I have one of the Acer ION gadgets running at home and that also uses the Atom 330. I cannot find any nice way to reduce the power consumption though as the 330 doesn't seem to support speedstep and my cpu is always running at 68C. Does your board provide any power

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:57:02PM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: i did it like you say, but something is happening with my installation, it boots always the first OS, i don't have any ideas for having a dual system... argh!! Perchance, is your other system MS-Vista? As I mentioned in a previous

Re: Problems with FreeBSD assembly

2009-11-12 Thread David Jackson
Charlie Kester wrote: On Wed 11 Nov 2009 at 17:32:41 PST Charlie Kester wrote: One more thing: Notice that the system call number (or any other dword) should also be pushed onto the stack before the int 80h. The reason for this is given at the top of the page: although the kernel is

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:04:29AM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: i think i have the problem... i have two hard disks, IDE and SATA, i saw in my MS XP, my root label is F: instead of C: maybe it is something related to jumpers or something like that? That is a little surprise to me, but I am

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:38:27AM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: First, please send all messages to the freebsd-questions list and not just to me. That is proper list etiquette, plus you will be able to get responses from more than just me. Others may know more. In other words, always do a

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jesús Abidan
ok, sorry... 2009/11/12 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:38:27AM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: First, please send all messages to the freebsd-questions list and not just to me. That is proper list etiquette, plus you will be able to get responses from more than

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jesús Abidan
no idea... the machine had only one hard drive(PATA), then i plugged a new sata HD(freebsd style), with information on it. The PATA drive is cofigured as the primary disk, and the sata in bios it says is in PORT 0. I'll try removing the SATA disk and install freebsd, maybe is the jumper

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jesús Abidan
no, it is not the disk, i removed it and the same problem... 2009/11/12 Jesús Abidan jabi...@gmail.com no idea... the machine had only one hard drive(PATA), then i plugged a new sata HD(freebsd style), with information on it. The PATA drive is cofigured as the primary disk, and the sata in

Re: Problems with FreeBSD assembly

2009-11-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:43:21 -0500, David Jackson norsta...@gmail.com wrote: I am having great difficulty running a very simple assembler program on FreeBSD on x86 in my efforts to learn some assembly programming on FreeBSD. I have tried to compile the following with nasm, however i get

Re: where's my konqueror?

2009-11-12 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:50 PM, usleepl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra h.sku...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I installed kdebase-4.3.1_1, but cannot find konqueror. It's

APM

2009-11-12 Thread James Phillips
Hello, On Tuesday, I was all happy that I got APM working on my pre-2000 Compaq Deskpro following these instructions: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4619 On Wednesday, after configuring the router to wake the server whenever DHCP leases are touched (quickdirty hack), I was

Re: Cut/Paste with USB mouse inoperative

2009-11-12 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:40:11 -0500, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: Well, the results of that test does not exactly exhilarate me. # moused -f -d -p /dev/ums0 moused: unable to open /dev/ums0: Device busy Seems that there's already a moused running. Use ps ax to find it PID and simply

Re: Tracking commit messages from cli

2009-11-12 Thread Troels Kofoed Jacobsen
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 05:55:57PM -0500, APseudoUtopia wrote: On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Troels Kofoed Jacobsen tkjacob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all With pkg_version I can easily see which installed ports has newer versions available, but what I miss is a way to see what has changed.

Re: Cut/Paste with USB mouse inoperative

2009-11-12 Thread Carmel
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:37:04 +0100 Polytropon Polytropon free...@edvax.de replied: Well, the results of that test does not exactly exhilarate me. # moused -f -d -p /dev/ums0 moused: unable to open /dev/ums0: Device busy Seems that there's already a moused running. Use ps ax to find it PID

Re: Cut/Paste with USB mouse inoperative

2009-11-12 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:40:11 -0500, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: Well, the results of that test does not exactly exhilarate me. # moused -f -d -p /dev/ums0 moused: unable to open /dev/ums0: Device busy Seems that there's already a moused

Re: Cut/Paste with USB mouse inoperative

2009-11-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:21:18 -0500, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: 'moused' was running. I have no idea why though. I did not start it. It surely was usbd. Anyway, I killed it, confirmed it was dead, and then ran the command: moused -f -d -p /dev/ums0 It failed again with a

Re: atom based servers

2009-11-12 Thread Jack Barnett
Curious, how did you get it installed? My motherboard doesn't have an IDE port (so, no IDE CD-ROM) and don't think booting from USB-CDROM is supported Booting from USB Flash drive works? David Rawling wrote: -Original Message- From: Brian Whalen Sent: Thu 12/11/2009 9:26 AM I