Re: ports security branch

2005-12-20 Thread Marwan Burelle
updates, that means that your boxe is specialized in some way with a small set of installed ports and thus every updates in the tree for those ports are relevant. Otherwise, you may want to have up to date ports because it's providing you with shiny new features ;) -- Marwan Burelle, http

Re: ports security branch

2005-12-20 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:15:30PM +0100, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Tuesday 20 December 2005 12:03, Marwan Burelle wrote: Relying on the maintainer work is a good starting point, you may trust him for doing only the needed updates for those ports that requier security concerns. But even

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-16 Thread Marwan Burelle
. Just note that my actual usage is only LaTeX (PhD writing ... ) and ports building. This was my 2 cents. -- Marwan Burelle, http://www.lri.fr/~burelle ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) http://www.cduce.org pgp9QyPpZGrIm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:37:09PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: On my FreeBSD 6-stable (the last build is less then 24hours ago) my devfs doesn't apply permissions set in /etc/devfs.conf when I attach new devices. I have to call: /etc/rc.d/devfs restart manually for the settings to be applied.

Re: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Marwan Burelle
that I was wrong, but as the current discussion shows, there is (was ? ;) a lack of good documentation on the subject. [1] : http://www.lri.fr/~burelle/BSD/USBKey-FreeBSD.html [2] : My starting was point here : http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/ -- Marwan Burelle, http://www.lri.fr

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Marwan Burelle
under linux and unusable at all under FreeBSD.) So, yes, you may have full support, but you won't see the difference for 3D accel (I have an ATI card fully supported, when hardware accel becomes available for me, it doesn't realy change anything ... ) My 2c. -- Marwan Burelle, http://www.lri.fr

Re: upgrading 5.4 - 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

2005-11-10 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:13:26PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: Under some circumstances it can also be useful to have an emergency user which is not dependant on anything outside the base system (i.e. doesn't use anything from /usr/local, doesn't have its home on an NFS volume, doesn't has

Re: 6.0 RC1 usbd.conf (and installation comments)

2005-10-26 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:46:43AM +1000, Joel Hatton wrote: most files in /etc/rc.d changed, so installing them all with mergemaster was laborious - a note in UPDATING similar to that for 5.x: The simplest solution is an 'rm -rf /etc/rc.d/*' and then

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-07 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 10:21:44AM +0100, Miguel Saturnino wrote: With Opera, about 40% of the screen space is left unused. I *liked* the quick links the old one had on the sides. If you try it with a screen resolution of 800x600 it will fill all the screen ;) A fluid design can be more

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:00:53PM +0100, Yann Golanski wrote: Well, I like the new design very much. It's only a matter of taste ... I don't like it ... It's simpler and has less wha on the front page. The top bar thingy gives you a nice and clear menu to find more information and has a

Re: Panic after plugging in an mp3 usb player, 5.4-PRERELEASE

2005-03-25 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:19:06PM -0600, Scot Hetzel wrote: The problem is that the developers don't have all of the devices to test to find theses quirks. So until someone inserts one of these malfunctioning devices into there FreeBSD system, we won't know what quirk needs to be added.

Re: Panic after plugging in an mp3 usb player, 5.4-PRERELEASE

2005-03-22 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 02:48:37PM +0100, Radek Kozlowski wrote: My 5.4-PRERELEASE/i386 as of today panics almost immediately after plugging in an mp3 usb player (Qware BeatZkey! Pro 512MB). I don't have device ehci in the kernel. It's a common problem with some USB devices. You have to add

Re: kernel config: sound device with or without quotes

2005-03-02 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:46:41AM -0800, Rob wrote: In /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES is the list of supported sound devices. I get confused by the pressence and absence of quotes here. Are these quotes only decoration, or really needed. For example: device snd_ad1816 device

Re: FW: Save the Demon!

2005-02-18 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:55:22PM -0600, Forsberg, Ben wrote: Or maybe the best approach would be to start a religion that fears wavy colored squares. I think that would work. Actually, what I think is this: People are irrational and are deeply affected by marketing. It used to be that

[5-STABLE] : CDRW burning problem - acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST

2005-02-10 Thread Marwan Burelle
Hi, I have a CDRW burner that use to work (with 5.2.1 the last time.) But since one of my last RELENG_5_2 update I encounter errors when burning CDRW (I don't have CDR to test, but I rember having strange behaviour with CDR also.) Switching to RELENG-5 (re-install 5.3 and cvsup after) a week ago

Re: [5-STABLE] : CDRW burning problem - acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST

2005-02-10 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:29:55AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: I get the same error on two machines, did some googling and found no answers that helped. (I fear I don't remember the details now.) As I don't have the error on another machine (all running 5.3 STABLE) I figured it was something

Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

2004-11-26 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 09:41:30PM +0100, Stein M. Sandbech wrote: On Nov 25, 2004, at 9:03 PM, Matthias Buelow wrote: Harald Arnesen wrote: All Radeons up to 9100 (9200, but that one is slower). Unfortunately, that excludes all reasonably new cards. The newer cards work very well. I

Re: NVIDIA driver crashing the system

2004-11-10 Thread Marwan Burelle
... ;) Marwan Burelle. -- Burelle Marwan, Equipe Bases de Donnees - LRI http://www.cduce.org ([EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]) pgp3xW1V148Ix.pgp Description: PGP signature