Re: New default setup for touchpads in X

2017-12-10 Thread Lari Rasku
Ulf Brosziewski kirjoitti 12/06/17 klo 00:59: > please consider giving ws a try, and help > us by reporting problems if it doesn't work for you. ws(4) seems to have much higher limiting friction for me when two-finger scrolling. In synaptics(4), it was enough to just tilt my fingers to get

Re: FAQ's duplicating file systems, both methods fail to reproduce correctly

2017-12-10 Thread vincent delft
Hello, Did you tried pax ? some thing like: pax -rw -pe I don't know if this the best tool, but I'm using it to duplicate a 1TB drive (having lot of hard links) onto an other one. I've done it couple of time, and I've do not see issues. rgds On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 7:03 PM,

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Re: FAQ's duplicating file systems, both methods fail to reproduce correctly

2017-12-10 Thread webmaster
I'm not able to try it right now, but would gtar accomplish what that our tar doesn't for this? As in maybe pull something out of it into our tar? Chris Bennett

Re: New default setup for touchpads in X

2017-12-10 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 12/10/2017 01:34 AM, Christoph R. Murauer wrote: > Hello ! > > I tried the touchpad with -current #261 from Dec 8. But wsconsctl > still reports mouse.type=synaptics. Should that be ? > Hi Christoph, thanks for your report. The value of "mouse.type" doesn't refer to the X driver, it's a

FAQ's duplicating file systems, both methods fail to reproduce correctly

2017-12-10 Thread webmaster
Forgive problems with this email. I saw how my emails showed up on marc.info Scary. This is just temporary. OK. I've tried to use both methods and just don't get true duplication. tar It can't work with file and directory names that are OK in filesystem, but too long for itself. Quite a while

Re: New default setup for touchpads in X

2017-12-10 Thread Christoph R. Murauer
Hello Ulf ! Thanks for your answer. > I assume that your touchpad is actually running with ws, and that no > xorg ".conf" file - in /etc or in /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ - > overrides the default ;-) If that is the case, then "works-as-before" is a good result, Yes, I can confirm, that

Re: New default setup for touchpads in X

2017-12-10 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Hi Christoph, under the hood, things are a bit different than you might think. It's not the ws driver that is new or has changed, it's the fact it is used in X for all pointing devices now. The touchpad-specific input processing is done in the kernel, by a new component of wsmouse(4). I'm

Re: New default setup for touchpads in X

2017-12-10 Thread Christoph R. Murauer
Hello Ulf ! > I'm afraid you are out of luck with a Powerbook. ... No problem. Just good to know. > BTW, xorg configuration files in >/usr/X11R6/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ Yes, you are right, there was a /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf (- instead of _). After removing the

Re: FAQ's duplicating file systems, both methods fail to reproduce correctly

2017-12-10 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, 10 Dec 2017, vincent delft wrote: > Did you tried pax ? > some thing like: pax -rw -pe > > I don't know if this the best tool, but I'm using it to duplicate a 1TB > drive (having lot of hard links) onto an other one. > I've done it couple of time, and I've do not see issues. 'pax' and

Re: FAQ's duplicating file systems, both methods fail to reproduce correctly

2017-12-10 Thread webmaster
> > 'pax' and 'tar' are actually the same binary so they have the same > limitation from the file formats that are supported, as well as any purely > internal limitations.  "pax -rw" actually has file format limitations by > design, so it doesn't automagically free you from those

Re: FAQ's duplicating file systems, both methods fail to reproduce correctly

2017-12-10 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 3:24 PM, wrote: ... > > > > > dump > > > > I had to move /usr/local to a bigger partition. growfs, > > > > etc. I kept the /usr/local untouched and then dumped it > > > > to the new partition, expecting a true duplication. > > > > Nope. >

Re: FAQ's duplicating file systems, both methods fail to reproduce correctly

2017-12-10 Thread webmaster
> > Wait, you previously said your problem was with symlinks *permissions* but > now you're saying *ownership*! I can confirm that restore(8) didn't > preserve the permissions (thus the patch I sent), but as long as you ran it > with sufficient privilege it should have always restored symlink

Re: FAQ's duplicating file systems, both methods fail to reproduce correctly

2017-12-10 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 3:46 PM, wrote: > > > Wait, you previously said your problem was with symlinks *permissions* > but > > now you're saying *ownership*! I can confirm that restore(8) didn't > > preserve the permissions (thus the patch I sent), but as long