Re: optical driver with ahci bios mode but ata(4) driver

2011-03-06 Thread David Demelier
On 05/03/2011 21:22, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:31 PM, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My bios can be set to use IDE emulation or ahci mode, I prefere the ahci mode because it's a bit faster. It's probably stupid to stay with ata(4) driver with the

Re: Switching between ttys takes 5 seconds with radeon hd 5670

2011-03-06 Thread David Demelier
On 05/03/2011 19:03, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, David Demelier wrote: I've got a brand new radeon hd 5670, when I switch between ttys it takes about 5 seconds to refresh (to show the next tty) Do you mean switching between text consoles (ttyv) or between a text console and X?

Re: Switching between ttys takes 5 seconds with radeon hd 5670

2011-03-06 Thread David Demelier
On 05/03/2011 19:03, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, David Demelier wrote: I've got a brand new radeon hd 5670, when I switch between ttys it takes about 5 seconds to refresh (to show the next tty) Do you mean switching between text consoles (ttyv) or between a text console and X?

Re: how to keep track of data usage (mobile broadband)

2011-03-06 Thread Michael
On 05/03/2011 18:17, Eitan Adler wrote: How can I keep track of data usage? It's a laptop so these counters needs to be reboot persistent. I'm running 8.1-R with ue0 interface. Check out http://humdi.net/vnstat/ and

grep: write error: Broken pipe

2011-03-06 Thread Австин Ким
Hi, all. I'm new to FreeBSD and have a newbie question (or maybe a couple). I was running FreeBSD 8.2-RC3 and recently `freebsd-update'd to 8.2-RELEASE. Now when I build or upgrade ports I get lots of these grep: write error: Broken pipe messages during builds. This is more of a nuisance

Re: python27 update

2011-03-06 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 19:53:22 -0800 Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com articulated: Sadly, this is one of those times when portupgrade seems to handle things better, but you'll probably have to wait another day to see if things worked out better this time. For me, using portupgrade on 3

Re: python27 update

2011-03-06 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry writes: Sadly, this is one of those times when portupgrade seems to handle things better, but you'll probably have to wait another day to see if things worked out better this time. For me, using portupgrade on 3 different systems (7.4 and 8.1) to upgrade Python 2.6 to

Re: optical driver with ahci bios mode but ata(4) driver

2011-03-06 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Mar 6, 2011, at 2:14 AM, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/03/2011 21:22, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:31 PM, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My bios can be set to use IDE emulation or ahci mode, I prefere the ahci mode

Re: how to keep track of data usage (mobile broadband)

2011-03-06 Thread Eitan Adler
Looks like it's exactly what I was looking for, thanks! Do you have the rc.d script maybe? It should be part of the port. I don't have it on this computer. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how to keep track of data usage (mobile broadband)

2011-03-06 Thread Michael
On 06/03/2011 14:32, Eitan Adler wrote: Looks like it's exactly what I was looking for, thanks! Do you have the rc.d script maybe? It should be part of the port. I don't have it on this computer. I'm afraid it's not. My ports tree is updated and a standard ports installation of net/vnstat

configuring mobile broadband at startup

2011-03-06 Thread Michael
Hi, I'm using cdce interface to get online. But before I can get IP address on my ue0 interface with dhclient, I need to power up and configure the GSM modem. At the moment I'm doing it by hand with cu(1) utility. How can I get it automated so that ue0 is running right after system startup?

how to determine if GSM modem is roaming

2011-03-06 Thread Michael
Hi, Is there a way to check if GSM modem is currently operating in roaming mode or not? Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: python27 update

2011-03-06 Thread ajtiM
On Sunday March 6 2011 08:09:01 Robert Huff wrote: Jerry writes: Sadly, this is one of those times when portupgrade seems to handle things better, but you'll probably have to wait another day to see if things worked out better this time. For me, using portupgrade on 3

Firefox printing

2011-03-06 Thread steven
With FreeBSD 8.2R and Firefox 3.6.13: When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too), the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good. When I do the same on Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get clear output. have included test-bad.ps to illustrate the

Re: python27 update

2011-03-06 Thread b. f.
I am using portmaster all the time more or less without problems. I like to switch to portupgrade but I don't know if is good to mix them. I think I will wait to FreeBSD 9 and than install evrything from scratch. You would have encountered the problem that you mentioned regardless of whether you

Bug report marked [regression]

2011-03-06 Thread Lars Eighner
If my bug report is marked [regression] what does that mean? Am I a troglodyte or a Luddite or something? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Purchased Binaries

2011-03-06 Thread Carl Johnson
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org writes: I have a client who has purchased some software. I don't know anything much about it yet other than it claims to run on Debian and CentOS. I suspect its binaries. I will have access to things like the developer, name etc. on Monday. However, thats when

Re: optical driver with ahci bios mode but ata(4) driver

2011-03-06 Thread David Demelier
On 06/03/2011 15:15, Brandon Gooch wrote: On Mar 6, 2011, at 2:14 AM, David Demelierdemelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/03/2011 21:22, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:31 PM, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My bios can be set to use IDE emulation or

HAL must die!

2011-03-06 Thread Lars Eighner
Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global default? Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull in HAL without having a configuration switch? -- Lars Eighner

Re: Bug report marked [regression]

2011-03-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Lars Eighner wrote: If my bug report is marked [regression] what does that mean? Am I a troglodyte or a Luddite or something? Regression is something that used to work but doesn't any more. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-06 Thread Eitan Adler
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgrade.  Is there a way to make this a global default? You can put WITHOUT_HAL=yes in /etc/make.conf -- Eitan

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Lars Eighner wrote: Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global default? Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull in HAL without having a configuration

Firefox printing

2011-03-06 Thread Robert Huff
(Followups redirected.) ste...@mailer3.nospam.homeip.net writes: When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too), the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good. When I do the same on Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get clear output.

Re: Bug report marked [regression]

2011-03-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 06 Mar 2011 at 10:58:57 PST Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Lars Eighner wrote: If my bug report is marked [regression] what does that mean? Am I a troglodyte or a Luddite or something? Regression is something that used to work but doesn't any more. Like me. I'm retired

Re: Firefox printing

2011-03-06 Thread steven
On Sunday 06 March 2011 11:13:55 you wrote: (Followups redirected.) ste...@mailer3.nospam.homeip.net writes: When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too), the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good. When I do the same on Firefox

Re: Firefox printing

2011-03-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Robert Huff wrote: In both cases the output is squished both horozontally and vertically so that it takes up ~40% on the desired space. Checkng the mailing list archives back into November shows nothing that matches this. firefox-3.6.15,1 prints fine here,

Re: grep: write error: Broken pipe

2011-03-06 Thread perryh
?? avs...@mail.ru wrote: ... how best can I repay you all? IMO, by paying it forward: as you become more familiar with/ knowledgeable of FreeBSD, continue to read freebsd-questions@ and assist when able. Everyone here was new to Unix and/or to FreeBSD at one time. Some of

Re: Firefox printing

2011-03-06 Thread perryh
ste...@mailer3.nospam.homeip.net wrote: With FreeBSD 8.2R and Firefox 3.6.13: When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too), the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good. When I do the same on Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get clear output. ...

What error RTC BIOS diagnostic error 8fixed_disk means?

2011-03-06 Thread Sergey
Hello All! I have motherboard INTEL S3200SHX and two SATA drive. ad0: 152627MB WDC WD1600JD-00GBB0 02.05D02 at ata0-master UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s ad2: 1430799MB Seagate ST31500541AS CC34 at ata1-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s I see RTC BIOS diagnostic error 8fixed_disk error at /var/run/dmesg.boot.

Re: grep: write error: Broken pipe

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, ?? ??? wrote: My other question is, those of you who answer questions and debug problems on this list, what do you all get out of it? I feel kind of selfish asking for what is basically free technical support; how best can I repay you all? When you become

Re: Cannot build jdk16

2011-03-06 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 03/04/11 03:23, Redd Vinylene wrote: Hello! /usr/ports/java/jdk16 instructs me to manually fetch tzupdater-1_3_34-2010o.zip and put it in /usr/ports/distfiles - this file however is no longer available and has been replaced by tzupdater-1_3_35-2011b. So what's the best way of installing