FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or PRERELEASE

2008-10-24 Thread Masoom Shaikh
Hi folks, y'day I csuped the src and built installed the kernel from RELENG_7 I was expecting FreeBSD-BETA2 in output of `uname -a` it is still -PRERELEASE, is it by decision or I have to change something ? I greped /usr/src for PRERELEASE but cud not locate it. I guess release engineering team

Re: FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or PRERELEASE

2008-10-24 Thread Masoom Shaikh
just my two cents if they count ;-) Aston On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:45 PM, mdh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Fri, 10/24/08, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or PRERELEASE To: Masoom Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: flash9 checklist

2008-10-29 Thread Masoom Shaikh
will this howto work for amd64 ? On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Steve Polyack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juergen Lock wrote: Preliminary checklist for getting flash9 to work in native firefox: (flash10 needs more ports work, I shall post about that seperately on -emulation...) If you have

large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-16 Thread Masoom Shaikh
most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk stripping em all reduces their size dramatically I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ? do I miss anything ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-17 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk stripping em all reduces their size dramatically I cannot see the reason

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-19 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:42:12AM +, Masoom Shaikh wrote: most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk stripping em all reduces their size dramatically I cannot see the reason

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2008-11-27 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Rommel Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Sir/Madam: Pleasant day! First of all, sorry if this enquiry shouldn't be directed to you, please help me direct to the right person. Few months ago I've purchase a FreeBSD book

Re: Uninstalling kde3 meta-port

2008-12-02 Thread Masoom Shaikh
can try `pkg_delete -a` On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Leslie Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi How would you guys uninstall a meta-port? I'm considering a move to kde4 but I want a clean install, so I want to remove the kde3 meta-port first. Thanks /Leslie

local copy of handbook

2008-12-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
, but now i am not sure about doc!! hints and help ? Masoom Shaikh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: amarok install failure

2008-12-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
to break other things for the sake of candy, i aborted Masoom Shaikh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file *default tag=RELENG_7 *default host=ftp2

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-31 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-31 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:33:45 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-01 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:27:31AM +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: snip wow, am waiting eagerlyHTML is complex, what is SGML :) The fdp primer introduces it: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp

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: First time user problems

2009-03-20 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Alhaji Barrie alhaji.bar...@comcast.netwrote: I am a new user of Free BSD. I just completed the install of Free BSD on a Dell PC but I cannot get past the initial login prompt. I typed the user name I supplied during the installation process to no avail. In

COMPAT_LINUX instead if COMPAT_LINUX32 in man page

2009-12-31 Thread Masoom Shaikh
. With little poking around I figured out the options is COMPAT_LINUX32 and this did make sense as only i386 Linux binaries are supported. I guess man page is in error and needs some love. Masoom Shaikh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

FreeBSD sources from svn repos

2010-01-25 Thread Masoom Shaikh
Hi List, I am confused about FreeBSD versions maintained in svn repos 1. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.0/ 2. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/8.0.0/ 3. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/ (2) is easy, most probably it means stable how about (1) and (2)

NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-18 Thread Masoom Shaikh
here is excellant intoduction to NetBSD-5.0 http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html certain statements are very impressive in those slides like Build any NetBSD platform from any POSIX environment $ uname -s -m Linux i686 $ cd netbsd-src $ ./build.sh -m sparc64 release develop and test 32 bits

Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-18 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Mark Shroyer subscriber+free...@markshroyer.com wrote: On 2/18/2010 10:32 AM, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: How about these bench vs FreeBSD?! http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img11.html http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img13.html

Re: KDE firefox integration

2010-03-07 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I noticed that in PC-BSD 8 firefox is nicely integrated into KDE. Anybody knows how to achieve this on FreeBSD 8? Anselm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
executed Windows Memory Diagnostic test for four times. None of them reported errors. Can anyone here suggest any solution. Masoom Shaikh vmcore0.log Description: Binary data vmcore1.log Description: Binary data ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Masoom Shaikh wrote: Hello List, I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard boot. I guessed this will get solved

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 March 2010 13:18, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Masoom Shaikh wrote: Hello List, I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it result

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-04-03 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it result

Re: under X, frozen keys, no mouse

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box.  It has a built-in video card, this isn't a top of the line superfast machine. But it is important for me to press it into service. I tried using a couple of Option lines in

Re: under X, frozen keys, no mouse

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
in the xorg.conf file On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box.  It has a built-in video card, this isn't a top of the line

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie,      Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie I had a look at the thread - thanks..,

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hi Masoom,   Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hi Masoom,   Good to hear from you

why use diablo JDK/JRE ?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
what is the need for FreeBSD Foundation to maintain dialbo JDK/JRE binaries when packages for openjdk are available on ftp servers ? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/java/openjdk-7.0.86.tbz stupid me, never realized, just assumed that openjdk binaries cannot be

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-04-08 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-06-02 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi le...@k1.com.br wrote: Hello, I have the package for openoffice 3.2m49 for the FreeBSD 7.2/amd64 available for the languages EN and pt_BR in UTF-8, with full support for cups. If you are interested, I can upload the package (120Mb) in

bluetooth.h, c++ include error

2009-10-01 Thread Masoom Shaikh
this is not intentional, c++ programmers will have to perform some acrobats to get past this thanks, Masoom Shaikh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

KDE4 + FreeBSD-8.0-RC2, no anti aliasing

2009-11-07 Thread Masoom Shaikh
here is my ~/.fonts.conf ?xml version='1.0'? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd' fontconfig match target=font edit mode=assign name=rgba constrgb/const /edit /match match target=font edit mode=assign name=hinting booltrue/bool /edit /match match target=font edit

Re: FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems

2009-11-09 Thread Masoom Shaikh
my wlan0 is created for wpi0 (I start the wifi with /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant onestart wlan0): wlans_wpi0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=NOAUTO DHCP WPA what's in your rc.conf? wlans_wpi0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=DHCP WPA do I really need to put wlan0 in quotes ? cud that be the problem ? will try now

Re: [kde-freebsd] FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems

2009-11-09 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Rusty Nejdl rne...@ringofsaturn.com wrote: On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:33:00 +0530, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Last Saturday I installed 8.0-RC2 from source by compiling on 7.1 installation. building and installing was smooth as always has

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

Re: FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems

2009-11-13 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Norbert Papke npa...@acm.org wrote: On November 6, 2009, Masoom Shaikh wrote: problem # 1 The problem is KDE4 is not able to display anti aliased fonts. I have made the required changes to make it work, of course, in System Settings - Appearance - Fonts

Re: ICC users compiling FreeBSD

2010-08-02 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Rui Paulo rpa...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, I'm looking for people who are using the Intel Compiler to build FreeBSD. Please contact me off list, so I can get a rough estimate on how many people are using it. Regards, -- Rui Paulo

Re: Need bsd make for AIX

2010-09-16 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:58 AM, srividy...@tcs.com wrote: Hi    Is there any BSD make versions available for AIX platform? We require the make utility of BSD to compile few source programs. Is there any make utility compatible with AIX?  Could you please give us the URL where we can get

Re: pkgng repositories

2013-05-01 Thread Masoom Shaikh
yes, it does, bit dated though. - Original Message - From: Eric S Pulley pul...@dabus.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2013 8:24 PM Subject: Re: pkgng repositories On Wed, 01 May 2013 08:54:33 -0500, Quark unixuser2000-f...@yahoo.com wrote:

Re: Typo in portmaster man page?

2013-05-09 Thread Masoom Shaikh
- Original Message - From: Jerry je...@seibercom.net To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, 9 May 2013 5:15 PM Subject: Re: Typo in portmaster man page? On Thu, 09 May 2013 06:06:42 -0500 Bryan Drewery articulated: (I'm not the original author on