Re: can i split a pdf file?
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 08:20:51PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie Kester wrote: On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? pdfsam ( http://www.pdfsam.org/ ) does both splits and merges of pdf files, but it doesn't seem to be in the FreeBSD ports system. There is a pdfmerge in /usr/ports/print, but no pdfsplit. It's a very junky way to do it (but the only way I know), use pdf2ps to convert the pdf to postscript, then you stand at least a good chance of doing the split, which many utilities allow. You could even do it graphically via gv. The problem with this (and the reason it might well fail anyhow) is because some things that pdfs do aren't implemented in any standard postscript level I ever heard of. It depends how many of the more recent extensions to pdf are being used. I've done this, *sometimes*. Because the pdf spec is fully published, it might one day allow someone to write a splitter, but because the spec is SO enormous, maybe they won't, either. Actually, that's a really good notion ... I need to give it some thought. -- Charlie Thanks, Gents, But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf to speech program) couldn't decode it. I'll play around with this more tomorrow. The problem with a lot of this electronic paper is that the lines are sequeezed together. Makes scanning them that much more difficult. Last month I read a book [book-book, from the library!] with more ~1.5 spaces between lines, and even tho the font was small, no problem in reading the entire text. ((FWIW: I'll find the URL of a piece on Hegelian ethics --PDF-- and see if the firefox speech site can grok that!)) gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ 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: can i split a pdf file?
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Thanks, Gents, But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf to speech program) couldn't decode it. This is a typical problem with poorly engineered PDFs where the author puts in the text as images (you'll see this stupidity across the Web, too). A good tool to check if the PDF file can be (audibly) read is the use of the tool pdftotext from the port xpdf. % pdftotext bla.pdf less bla.txt Then, even the FF speech plugin should work correctly - as long as the PDF file contains decodable text. If it's just a bunch of images, well, what are we expecting, hm? FF-speech: You see a pretty image of some text... :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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
Updates / Upgrades
Hi all, I have installed FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE on two of my systems. One of them (This one I'm using) is a PC I use as one of my main desktops. The other I decided on after wanting to keep safe with my main one which has important data on it, so I decided to use another machine and do an install so I could test out patches and updates on it before applying them to this machine so that if something happened during the updates I wouldn't lose this machine and could just format the other machine if something really crashed or had a really huge error, and basically use this machine as production and that one as the test for things so I don't break / screw up anything. Anyway, I used a tool like this: #update-scan It gave me a list of ports and things to update and how to do it. Thing is, when I took the advice of what the application said, and did what it said, it still shows it. I moved over to the test machine and grabbed the application and ran it to see what I could do, and noticed I did miss the first step, so I figured that was the problem, and used my test machine to do an update for Perl. I saw it had two things to do to upgrade those packages, so I did step one, then, did step two. I figured this would remove it from the list of packages that need an upgrade, and after a few hours of downloading some stuff off my FTP server (MP3s, no software) I rebooted the machine. I was surprised to find Perl still listing to do the exact same thing. So this time I did this: portupgrade -a It said I needed to run the pkgdb thing, so I did. Once it finished and fixed up a few apps that needed something or other, I ran it again: portupgrade -a After a while, it started going and I figured everything would be done and I could update my main box after checking to be sure that the patches didn't break anything. Trouble is, after the reboot, I noticed that it still listed all of them. I'm almost certain the problem is me. So my question is, what am I doing wrong? I'm no guru or BSD hacker, but I am a competent user of Unix systems and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm a LITTLE new to doing on the fly upgrades like this I'll admit. Before I'd just wait for a new version of FreeBSD to come out, like say 6.0 - 6.x and just do a fresh install after backing up the small things I need and call it a day. So can someone please either type, copy and paste, or link me, to some info on doing updates and upgrades and patches so I can keep my system updated? BOTH machines are running FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE and both have almost the same software installed on them. I'd like to find out because I'm really enjoying 7.1, it has to be by far the best release I've used to date. portupgrade -a used to do all this for me and take a while, but I'm not sure what is going on with this one. Thanks for any help, -Allen ___ 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: Updates / Upgrades
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 03:38 -0500, Akenner wrote: Hi all, I have installed FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE on two of my systems. One of them (This one I'm using) is a PC I use as one of my main desktops. The other I decided on after wanting to keep safe with my main one which has important data on it, so I decided to use another machine and do an install so I could test out patches and updates on it before applying them to this machine so that if something happened during the updates I wouldn't lose this machine and could just format the other machine if something really crashed or had a really huge error, and basically use this machine as production and that one as the test for things so I don't break / screw up anything. Anyway, I used a tool like this: #update-scan It gave me a list of ports and things to update and how to do it. Thing is, when I took the advice of what the application said, and did what it said, it still shows it. I moved over to the test machine and grabbed the application and ran it to see what I could do, and noticed I did miss the first step, so I figured that was the problem, and used my test machine to do an update for Perl. I saw it had two things to do to upgrade those packages, so I did step one, then, did step two. I figured this would remove it from the list of packages that need an upgrade, and after a few hours of downloading some stuff off my FTP server (MP3s, no software) I rebooted the machine. I was surprised to find Perl still listing to do the exact same thing. So this time I did this: portupgrade -a It said I needed to run the pkgdb thing, so I did. Once it finished and fixed up a few apps that needed something or other, I ran it again: portupgrade -a After a while, it started going and I figured everything would be done and I could update my main box after checking to be sure that the patches didn't break anything. Trouble is, after the reboot, I noticed that it still listed all of them. I'm almost certain the problem is me. So my question is, what am I doing wrong? I'm no guru or BSD hacker, but I am a competent user of Unix systems and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm a LITTLE new to doing on the fly upgrades like this I'll admit. Before I'd just wait for a new version of FreeBSD to come out, like say 6.0 - 6.x and just do a fresh install after backing up the small things I need and call it a day. So can someone please either type, copy and paste, or link me, to some info on doing updates and upgrades and patches so I can keep my system updated? BOTH machines are running FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE and both have almost the same software installed on them. I'd like to find out because I'm really enjoying 7.1, it has to be by far the best release I've used to date. portupgrade -a used to do all this for me and take a while, but I'm not sure what is going on with this one. Thanks for any help, It can be tricky at first, and I'm not sure about the update-scan utility you're using. Check out the handbook and just run the directions from there: portsnap fetch portsnap update (or you can run portsnap fetch update in one go) then freebsd-update fetch freebsd-update install (or all in one as above) then (assuming you've installed portupgrade as you mentioned above) portupgrade -a then reboot. If this doesn't work post back your errors and we can help you debug. If there are no errors in running these steps then all is good! :) If you want to check your programs are up to date then run the portsnap steps again and run pkg_version -v. The freebsd-update steps will tell you whether FreeBSD is up to date. HTH and good luck. ___ 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: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other
Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:10:09 +0100 (CET) So far I've got those rules: in_if=em0 out_if=em1 management_if=em2 in_ip=100.100.100.1 out_ip=200.200.200.1 management_ip=172.16.0.201 client1_subnet=192.168.5.0/26 client2_subnet=192.168.6.0/26 server_subnet=192.168.7.0/24 download_bandwidth=6144Kbit/s upload_bandwidth=1024Kbit/s delay=0 queue_size=10 10 slots ie packets is likely too small a queue size at these rates. You want to check the dropped packet stats from 'ipfw pipe show' re that; see the section in ipfw(8) about calculating sizes / delays. I had a look at the ipfw howto on the freebsd site [1], but I'm not 100% sure how to choose a good value for the queue size. If I choose the default (50 packets) it means that it takes approx. 100ms (600kbits / 6144kbits) to fill the queue. So the question is: Which value to choose for the queue? I suggest using 'in recv' and 'out xmit' rather than via for these, for the sake of clarity. 'in recv' and 'in via' come to the same thing, as only the receive interface is known on inbound packets, but 'out via' applies to packets that were *received* on the specified interface as well as those going out on that interface after routing, which can lead to surprising results sometimes, and being more specific never hurts .. Thanks for the hint. I'll change that. But when I have a look at the pipes with 'ipfw show' I can only see packets go through the pipe 50 and nothing goes through the other pipes (which makes sense actually since IPFW work that way?). IPFW works that way if you (likely) have net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=1 .. so that packets exiting from pipes aren't seen by the firewall again. If you set one_pass=0, packets are reinjected into the firewall at the rule following the pipe (or queue) action, which is what you want to do here. Actually this is also described in the manpage of ipfw(8). Shame on me ;-) And you'll surely need a much larger queue for this pipe, at 100Mbit/s. As already asked above: How do I know the queue is large or small enough for my needs? cheers, Ian Regards, Sebastian [1] http://www.freebsd-howto.com/HOWTO/Ipfw-HOWTO ___ 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: jail devfs openpty
You'll never silence the voice of the voiceless, Mel! Probably that was caused by overall instability of my 7.1 system: === # devfs -m /jailpath/dev rule apply path ttyp* unhide # chroot /jailpath/ # ls /dev dsp0.1 lpt0mixer0 random ttyp1 ttyp3 ttyp5 zero log lpt0.ctlnullttyp0 ttyp2 ttyp4 urandom # script script: openpty: Resource temporarily unavailable # exit exit # devfs -m /jailpath/dev rule apply path pty* unhide # chroot /jailpath/ # script script: openpty: Permission denied # exit exit # devfs -m /jailpath/dev rule apply path * unhide devfs rule: unknown argument: Desktop # devfs -m /jailpath/dev rule apply type tty unhide # chroot /jailpath/ # script Script started, output file is typescript # exit Script done, output file is typescript # exit exit # === Now this seem to work, after the reboot. Although I'd like to ask if I used the major/minor numbers for temporary rules when portupgraded the 5/6 systems, what kind of rule I should specify to avoid 'openpty' reason of script(1) failure? Which tty devices does it use? You may see I try the path pty* and path ttyp* without that luck though. Major/minor numbers are gone since some of 6.X. 2009/01/25 17:08:14 -0900 Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : M On Sunday 25 January 2009 02:25:17 Peter Vereshagin wrote: M Hello, M M I am doing the portupgrade inside my jail. M I see that script(1) have no permission on openpty. M I deleted all the devfs rules on tha jail's /dev both by hand and by M deleting the ruleset string in master's rc.conf. So i stopped jail and M mounted devfs by hand. Started jail. It appears to work, the portupgrade. I M suppose that if mounted with /etc/rc.d/jail the devfs has some tweak that M makes it different from mounted by hand. M M Are you sure that's the problem? M When going inside a jail with jexec(8) there is no /dev/tty. You have to login M using ssh to get fully functional tty's. M M -- M Mel M M Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules M and never get to the software part. 73! Peter -- http://vereshagin.org ___ 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: Solaris Compat?
I don't want to raise an argument here (on multiple levels, no less...), but what would the compatibility be between FreeBSD (release) and Solaris? Why I ask is Adobe have released a version of flash for Solaris, and I'm wondering if this might work better than the linux_compat types. I tried it's nonsense to FreeBSD developers to do workaround just because adobe don't want to make FreeBSD binary. If they don't want to make, then they DONT WANT US to use their product. They DO HAVE RIGHT to do so, and please respect their rights! PS. Of course it's nonsense what they do, but again it's their right to do stupid things ___ 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: jail devfs openpty
You'll never silence the voice of the voiceless, Mel! Sorry the script(1) did work, but stopped since the portupgrade tried it: === # portupgrade -varRp --- Session started at: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:58:54 +0400 [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 190 packages found (-0 +1) . done] ** Port marked as IGNORE: mail/cclient: is forbidden: multiple vulnerabilities http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/a6713190-dfea-11dd-a765-0030843d3802.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/69a20ce4-dfee-11dd-a765-0030843d3802.html --- Upgrade of mail/courier-imap started at: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:59:40 +0400 --- Upgrading 'courier-imap-4.3.1,2' to 'courier-imap-4.4.1,2' (mail/courier-imap) --- Build of mail/courier-imap started at: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:59:40 +0400 --- Building '/usr/ports/mail/courier-imap' script: openpty: Permission denied === Same as with script(1) by hand now. I do all this in chroot. No difference if under gnu screen or in ttyv4. 2009/01/25 17:08:14 -0900 Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : M On Sunday 25 January 2009 02:25:17 Peter Vereshagin wrote: M Hello, M M I am doing the portupgrade inside my jail. M I see that script(1) have no permission on openpty. M I deleted all the devfs rules on tha jail's /dev both by hand and by M deleting the ruleset string in master's rc.conf. So i stopped jail and M mounted devfs by hand. Started jail. It appears to work, the portupgrade. I M suppose that if mounted with /etc/rc.d/jail the devfs has some tweak that M makes it different from mounted by hand. M M Are you sure that's the problem? M When going inside a jail with jexec(8) there is no /dev/tty. You have to login M using ssh to get fully functional tty's. M M -- M Mel M M Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules M and never get to the software part. 73! Peter -- http://vereshagin.org ___ 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: jail init, but another question
You'll never silence the voice of the voiceless, Mel! Yes. Ruleset name did not resolve into the number. So rc.subr asked for a digit and I provided a number that way. It was too obvious for me to specify the 'devfsrules_' prefix for the case it cannot be anything other than devfs rules. And so it did not resolve by provided meaningful part ( e. g., 'example' ) of ruleset name only. Thanks! 2009/01/25 17:06:15 -0900 Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : M Something else is wrong. Set rc_debug=YES in /etc/rc.conf then M /etc/rc.d/jail start example M to trace how the rulesets are evaluated. 73! Peter -- http://vereshagin.org ___ 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
how to install all p5-* one shot
Hi all: There are many PERL packages in ports whose names are prefixed with p5-* . How does one install all the p5-* packages one shot ? Is there a way one can do it with the options available in ports or does one need to write a script to locate all the dir names starting with p5-* ? Any pointer in this direction will be appreciated. -- thanks Saifi. ___ 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: jail devfs openpty
It appeared to work after rule apply unhide. Will find out more. Just how to delete or view the ruleset? Thanks. 2009/01/25 17:08:14 -0900 Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : M On Sunday 25 January 2009 02:25:17 Peter Vereshagin wrote: M Hello, M M I am doing the portupgrade inside my jail. M I see that script(1) have no permission on openpty. M I deleted all the devfs rules on tha jail's /dev both by hand and by M deleting the ruleset string in master's rc.conf. So i stopped jail and M mounted devfs by hand. Started jail. It appears to work, the portupgrade. I M suppose that if mounted with /etc/rc.d/jail the devfs has some tweak that M makes it different from mounted by hand. M M Are you sure that's the problem? M When going inside a jail with jexec(8) there is no /dev/tty. You have to login M using ssh to get fully functional tty's. M M -- M Mel M M Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules M and never get to the software part. 73! Peter -- http://vereshagin.org ___ 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: Solaris Compat?
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:04:13 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: it's nonsense to FreeBSD developers to do workaround just because adobe don't want to make FreeBSD binary. If they don't want to make, then they DONT WANT US to use their product. They DO HAVE RIGHT to do so, and please respect their rights! PS. Of course it's nonsense what they do, but again it's their right to do stupid things I do share this point of view, but sadly, an open system like the Web has been polluted and made unusable (or at least has the tendency to be this way) for those who cannot access this propretary product / format. Don't get me wrong, I've played a bit with Flash on FreeBSD, found it useless and am living happily now without it, without getting bothered to install strange Plugins or Extensions all day long. The day Flash will be an open standard and will be integrated into browsers (such as graphic formats are, or even other media), then I'll think about it again, for sure. But as long as something that unimportant hooks so deeply into the system that it's hard work to create workarounds to use it (swfdecoder, linux-flash, gnash etc.), it simply isn't worth thinking about. Or could you imagine that a company would release some software that makes it possible to view PNG images within a webpage, but your OS isn't intended to have support for this, because it would require the modification of the OS kernel? :-) -- Die Rechtschreibreform ist völlig in Ordnung, wenn man weder lesen noch schreiben kann. (Loriot) ___ 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
overwriting NOT_FOR_ARCHS via /etc/make.conf has no effect
I'm trying to overwrite a Makefile variable via /etc/make.conf
It doesn't seem to work:
# cd /usr/ports/lang/gcc43
# grep NOT Makefile
NOT_FOR_ARCHS= alpha ia64
# grep -C1 NOT /etc/make.conf
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/lang/gcc4*}
NOT_FOR_ARCHS= ia64
.endif
# make
=== gcc-4.3.3_20090122 does not run on alpha ia64, while you are running
alpha.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/lang/gcc43.
#
What am I doing wrong?
many thanks
anton
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Re: how to install all p5-* one shot
2009/1/26 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org: Hi all: There are many PERL packages in ports whose names are prefixed with p5-* . How does one install all the p5-* packages one shot ? Is there a way one can do it with the options available in ports or does one need to write a script to locate all the dir names starting with p5-* ? Any pointer in this direction will be appreciated. % cd /usr/ports % find . -name p5\-* | wc -l 3360 Good idea? Then try: % sudo portmaster -i */p5\-* - Herbert ___ 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: Solaris Compat?
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 13:12 +0100, Andreas Xanke wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:04:13 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: it's nonsense to FreeBSD developers to do workaround just because adobe don't want to make FreeBSD binary. If they don't want to make, then they DONT WANT US to use their product. They DO HAVE RIGHT to do so, and please respect their rights! PS. Of course it's nonsense what they do, but again it's their right to do stupid things I do share this point of view, but sadly, an open system like the Web has been polluted and made unusable (or at least has the tendency to be this way) for those who cannot access this propretary product / format. Don't get me wrong, I've played a bit with Flash on FreeBSD, found it useless and am living happily now without it, without getting bothered to install strange Plugins or Extensions all day long. The day Flash will be an open standard and will be integrated into browsers (such as graphic formats are, or even other media), then I'll think about it again, for sure. But as long as something that unimportant hooks so deeply into the system that it's hard work to create workarounds to use it (swfdecoder, linux-flash, gnash etc.), it simply isn't worth thinking about. Or could you imagine that a company would release some software that makes it possible to view PNG images within a webpage, but your OS isn't intended to have support for this, because it would require the modification of the OS kernel? :-) Understandable. Try clipsal.com , or try freeview.com.au - and this is just a few of the sites and organisations I deal with that don't offer workarounds (and I have said words to them regarding accessibility). Unfortunately, some organisations don't believe flash is that unaccessible. ___ 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: how to install all p5-* one shot
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra h.sku...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/26 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org: Hi all: There are many PERL packages in ports whose names are prefixed with p5-* . How does one install all the p5-* packages one shot ? Is there a way one can do it with the options available in ports or does one need to write a script to locate all the dir names starting with p5-* ? Any pointer in this direction will be appreciated. % cd /usr/ports % find . -name p5\-* | wc -l 3360 Good idea? Then try: % sudo portmaster -i */p5\-* - Herbert Thanks Herbert. I'd did not know about 'portmaster' until you mentioned in your mail. Wow, so i got cvsup, portsnap and now portmaster :) -- thanks Saifi. ___ 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: how to install all p5-* one shot
2009/1/26 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org: Hi all: There are many PERL packages in ports whose names are prefixed with p5-* . How does one install all the p5-* packages one shot ? Is there a way one can do it with the options available in ports or does one need to write a script to locate all the dir names starting with p5-* ? Any pointer in this direction will be appreciated. % cd /usr/ports % find . -name p5\-* | wc -l Good idea? Then try: % sudo portmaster -i */p5\-* - Herbert Thanks Herbert. I'd did not know about 'portmaster' until you mentioned in your mail. Wow, so i got cvsup, portsnap and now portmaster :) -- thanks Saifi. I don't think (i am actually sure) that you can not install all the p5-* ports. A lot of ports conflict with each other. So it is better to install the p5-* ports you actually need. And the good thing about the ports tree is that they will be when installing software that require those p5-* ports. Regards, Johan Hendriks No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.13/1915 - Release Date: 25-1-2009 18:13 ___ 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: KDE: What a monster!
Dear list, I'm starting to make myself unpopular today. :-) On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:53:51 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: fortunately it's only tendency to trendy software like KDE. not for all unix software. But sadly for the most software that is used for real productivity, such as media players, programming environments, or even web browsers and mail clients. and definitely NOT for FreeBSD OS inself, that gets same or faster every release on THE SAME machine! Exactly, that's why I'm such a happy FreeBSD user, or, to be honest, HAVE BEEN, because I think... well, sometimes I could crash the stupid box against the wall because things that worked well years ago when I setup the system with old software aren't possible with modern software anymore, and that's a thing I cannot believe. Evolution is good, but what if it's not only about adding, fixing and optimizing things, but making things impossible, due to handling or dropping of functionalities? In this regards, FreeBSD always was / is good: A solid OS base where certain things can be EXPECTED to work. Up to today, I haven't found an operating environment that serves me as good as FreeBSD did in the past. FreeBSD in the equation of speed: Hardware - = speed++ FreeBSD-- And yes, I think I could notice the speed improvement in the past. Improvements in performance and startup speed are always welcome, allthough they're not a major issue to me. As long as it works flawlessly in general, I'm happy. :-) it's not unix problem. it's problem of people that like to have their unix be like windows so it is :) I cannot imagine one (!) reason why I would like to have my UNIX to be like Windows, I'm happy it NOT like Windows. :-) (These words from a man who has never used Windows, so I'm not spoiled with its strange concepts or assumptions about how things should be done.) what exactly software you rebuild and found slower (except KDE/Gnome bloatware) ? You're inviting me to complain. :-) Before I will start, I may say that I often heared that KDE is an excellent development platform, so I tried it out, especially because of KDEvelop which I found quite interesting (running it without KDE). KDE and Gnome are simply too much for my machine - end for me. So much stuff I don't need and don't want (such as automounting devices, this is - in terms of security - not wanted on my system). And all that stuff that comes bundled with it that I even don't know about... And I think Gnome isn't much better due to Gtk 2 and its huge pile of dependencies. People keep saying that XFCE 4 would be good for a lightweight desktop, but it uses Gtk 2, too, so same problem here. Okay, when your weight is 200kg, then 150kg may be lightweight, but not compared to mankind's average. :-) KDE wouldn't let me utilize the keys on my Sun USB Type 6 keyboard anymore. I've always been a fan of lightweight software (and I MEAN lightweight), such as WindowMaker, an excellent window manager, and all the programs that do not have a K or a G in the name. :-) Now, let's start complaining. It will be a looong list, and I have to admit that I've not found the motivation yet to fix the problems that can be fixed, allthough I'm sure not all of them can be fixed. Introduction: I've used FreeBSD 5.4-p something since I set it up some years ago, and up to July 2008 when an inode crashed my life, the universe, and everything, the system ran fine so I had no reason to update anything. Machine is an Intel P4 with 2 GHz and 768 MB SDR-SDRAM (yes, I know, I'm too mean to buy DDR1-SDRAM for this). GPU is an ATI Radeon 9200 / RV250 AGP. Sound is CMI. First I found that compiling lasts much longer. I know that the new C compiler does much more optimization, but compile times have almost doubled - remember, we're talking about the same hardware configuration, no change. Some numbers: FreeBSD 7 - buildkernel KERNCONF1:05:25.90 97.2% 1:11:05.53 94.4% buildworld 3:54:15.31 96.8% installkernel KERNCONF 0:46.89 63.9% ... make update ... buildkernel KERNCONF -D USBDEBUG1:58:29.08 64.7% buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF -D USBDEBUG 6:06:03.90 86.9% 7:19:49.24 78.2% installkernel KERNCONF 1:11.85 43.1% buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF 6:01:33.44 90.1% 6:19:33.55 92.8% 7:39:11.57 82.0% 9:12:00.28 65.1% FreeBSD 5 - buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF 5:46:42.25 96.4% buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF 5:46:30.40 95.9%
Re: Solaris Compat?
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:04:13 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: it's nonsense to FreeBSD developers to do workaround just because adobe don't want to make FreeBSD binary. If they don't want to make, then they DONT WANT US to use their product. They DO HAVE RIGHT to do so, and please respect their rights! PS. Of course it's nonsense what they do, but again it's their right to do stupid things I do share this point of view, but sadly, an open system like the Web has been polluted and made unusable (or at least has the tendency to be this way) for those who cannot access this propretary product / format. Don't get me wrong, I've played a bit with Flash on FreeBSD, found it useless and am living happily now without it, without getting bothered to install strange Plugins or Extensions all day long. The day Flash will be an open standard and will be integrated into browsers (such as graphic formats are, or even other media), then I'll think about it again, for sure. But as long as something that unimportant hooks so deeply into the system that it's hard work to create workarounds to use it (swfdecoder, linux-flash, gnash etc.), it simply isn't worth thinking about. Or could you imagine that a company would release some software that makes it possible to view PNG images within a webpage, but your OS isn't intended to have support for this, because it would require the modification of the OS kernel? :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: overwriting NOT_FOR_ARCHS via /etc/make.conf has no effect
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:55:29 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm trying to overwrite a Makefile variable via /etc/make.conf It doesn't seem to work: This behaviour is correct. The local makefiles have precedence before the /etc/make.conf settings. What am I doing wrong? You could modify the port's Makefile itself, or create Makefile.local in the port's dicrectory with your specific settings, but I don't now if this mechanism is still supported. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: X11 forwarding through SSH: Can't open display
In response to sk89q the.sk...@gmail.com: I meant sshd_config. Do you have the xauth package installed on the remote server? You don't need a full X install, but X11 forwarding won't work without xauth installed. On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: sk89q wrote: Hello, I am using FreeBSD 6.2 and I have been trying to get X11 forwarding through SSH to work. I've gotten to the point where the environment variable DISPLAY is set, but I get a Can't open display error when I attempt to run an X application. The remote server in question does not have an X server install. In /etc/ssh/ssh_config, I have the following lines: X11Forwarding yes AllowTcpForwarding yes UseLogin no Have a look at /etc/ssh/sshd_config of the remote server and restart sshd after modification. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ 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 -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ 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: hex editors, disk info
That in mind, what's wrong with bpatch? I've used it for binary patching, it works just fine that that (if my first assumption is totally off-base). You download from the device, change any required data, and (if the device allows writes) write it back to the device. Of course, not all devices allow writes. It's a bit uncomfortable. Just for example: I need to search some signatures, which could be anywhere in 640Gb disk, and make some changes around them. And I don't have spare 640+ Gb to copy whole disk to. And even if I would have enough space, it is painfully slow to move 640Gb twice just to make ten minutes editing. ___ 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
Buildworld error
Do you have anything obscure in make.conf ? When it fails in succession, does it fail *after* the last point of failure, or is it randomized? When was your last c(v)sup? Hi Glen the error seems randomized I did a fresh cvsup and moved make.conf out of the way and did all the clean up steps as per the handbook this morning and it still failed. The only thing the error has in common each time is internal compiler error: in find_idf, Thanks ___ 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
All-in-One Web Application
Hello, I am scratching my head here endlessly. We have a site where we have installed Joomla+Moodle+Mailman. These are three different applications. Isn't there one that is all-in-one (has all these features built int) for these? And now that guys are talking Web2.0, would there be one that is compliant? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. - Natalie Wood ___ 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: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD
(6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64).
What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines,
but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture.
I also want to make rebuilding indexes run as fast as possible.
Right now, I simply exports(5) /usr/ports via NFSv3 ...
...
The following 2 lines on each machine in /etc/make.conf should
fix those problems:
PACKAGES=${PORTSDIR}/packages/${ARCH}
INDEXFILE=INDEX-${ARCH}-${OSVERSION:C/([0-9]).*/\1/}
To speed up building, it may also be useful to set WRKDIRPREFIX
to something like /var/ports or /var/tmp/ports, so that the work
directories are local rather than having to be accessed via NFS.
Thank you very much!
--
Regards,
Doug
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Re: KDE: What a monster!
Linus Torvalds on KDE4... [quote] Q: Another open source project that underwent a big change was KDE with version 4.0. They released a lot of fundamental architectural changes with 4.0 and it received some negative reviews. As a KDE user how has this impacted you? A: I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do. But the whole break everything model is painful for users and they can choose to use something else. I realise the reason for the 4.0 release, but I think they did it badly. They did so many changes it was a half-baked release. It may turn out to be the right decision in the end and I will re-try KDE, but I suspect I'm not the only person they lost. I got the update through Fedora and there was a mismatch from KDE 3 to KDE 4.0. The desktop was not as functional and it was just a bad experience for me. I'll revisit it when I reinstall the next machine which tends to be every six to eight months. The GNOME people are talking about doing major surgery so it could also go the other way. [/quote] Full story: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasictaxonomyName=SoftwarearticleId=9126619taxonomyId=18pageNumber=5 -- Nino ___ 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: X11 forwarding through SSH: Can't open display
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to sk89q the.sk...@gmail.com: I meant sshd_config. Do you have the xauth package installed on the remote server? You don't need a full X install, but X11 forwarding won't work without xauth installed. Yes, I do (at least to my knowledge), but xauth is located at /usr/local/bin/xauth. sshd wasn't able to find xauth, so I made a hard link at /usr/X11/bin/xauth to /usr/local/bin/xauth. That fixed a can't-find-xauth error, and that's where I am now. On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: sk89q wrote: Hello, I am using FreeBSD 6.2 and I have been trying to get X11 forwarding through SSH to work. I've gotten to the point where the environment variable DISPLAY is set, but I get a Can't open display error when I attempt to run an X application. The remote server in question does not have an X server install. In /etc/ssh/ssh_config, I have the following lines: X11Forwarding yes AllowTcpForwarding yes UseLogin no Have a look at /etc/ssh/sshd_config of the remote server and restart sshd after modification. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ 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 -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ 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: can i split a pdf file?
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:18:26PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? Ghostscript (when built with the pdfwrite driver) will copy pages from a PDF: gs -DNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=N -dLastPage=M \ -sOutputFile=outfile.pdf infile.pdf -c quit /dev/null 21 Where N and M are page numbers, and outfile.pdf and infile.pdf are the output and original filename respectively. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgplvmCyDnbtC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1
Hi everyone, Just to put you in context, I applied the following patch to make the card available: SVN rev 186389 on 2008-12-22 00:46:22Z by yongari Since we don't request reset for rlphy(4), the link state 'UP' event from mii(4) may not be delivered if valid link was already established. To address the issue, check current link state after driving MII_TICK. This should fix a regression introduced in r185753 on fast ethernet controllers. --- I don't have any issue related to that anymore. The problem is that I get link UP/DOWN a few times per hour on 3 identical machines that I dumped/restored. They are all pluged in a Cisco switch that works fine for every other PCs. Jan 26 06:09:15 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN Jan 26 06:09:17 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP I tried to switch cables, but I got the same result. There is the pciconf -lv output: r...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x02831028 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass = ethernet There is the output of vmstat -i: interrupt total rate irq18: re0 ehci0++ 63766 0 irq19: atapci0277001 3 cpu0: timer156068748 1961 Total 156409515 1966 Could it be related to the fact that there is re0 and ehci0++ on the same IRQ? Thank you for your help, Martin ___ 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: Buildworld error
Terry ( 1stKMH ) te...@firstkmh.co.uk writes: Hi Glen the error seems randomized I did a fresh cvsup and moved make.conf out of the way and did all the clean up steps as per the handbook this morning and it still failed. The only thing the error has in common each time is internal compiler error: in find_idf, If the errors are different each time, it's probably not a software problem. Test your RAM. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ 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: Why are the Zionist leaders in Israel so happy about the newPresident?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:04:15PM +, Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Lawrence Auster wrote: Bla bla bla Ku Klux Klan crap. Why don't you bring your hatred outta here. This is a family-oriented channel. Next time, even when you put OOT label on subject, I still will call it crap. If you name me Jewish lover, well, I'm Asian, that means I'm a chink. But it's Mr. Chink to you, thank you very much. Technically, chink is a slur for Chinese -- not Asian in general. Just tryin' ta help. I was noticing that he's been crapping over the GentooLinux lists also (at the very least, along with a long list of FreeBSD lists, not just -Questions) and he's learned to obfuscate his source address. Not that he couldn't be blocked, and I (for one) really dislike offering him his pulpit of hate here. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl97rAACgkQz62J6PPcoOk6NgCfUmpfbMCO7ESzGAzl+yUJwAS2 Z/wAoJPjoAD6dXmuEJotYKpkRaP9VOPj =vI85 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: hex editors, disk info
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Karpovic wrote: That in mind, what's wrong with bpatch? I've used it for binary patching, it works just fine that that (if my first assumption is totally off-base). You download from the device, change any required data, and (if the device allows writes) write it back to the device. Of course, not all devices allow writes. It's a bit uncomfortable. Just for example: I need to search some signatures, which could be anywhere in 640Gb disk, and make some changes around them. And I don't have spare 640+ Gb to copy whole disk to. And even if I would have enough space, it is painfully slow to move 640Gb twice just to make ten minutes editing. That's an unusual requirement, but folks ought to listen here, because optimizing such a problem, it's an interesting challenge. There is NO established tool which will do such an outre' task well, just because it's so unusual) I won't probe into your reasons, although a request so very odd usually means that there's some misunderstanding at the back of it. Anyhow, if I were given this task, I really think that the problem is in localizing the area you need to change, not in changing it. I'd use whatever language you feel comfortable with, then using that language (either directly, or by piping dd or nc to help out) so that you could do a global search for your target. Your search could trivially do extra things, like uniquely identifiying the target area, even dumping surrounding blocks into work file, so you could follow up with bpatch to actually change things. Don't expect such a thing to go quickly ... however, this is one of those tasks that can be made to operate significantly quicker, if you choose an efficient language and (easily as important) choose a good search/comparison algorithm. Actually, this sort of thing mgiht well have been given as homework to an undergrad, a very good learning opportunity indeed. Lot's of room for optimization of all kinds, and that task is big enough to really show obvious results. Done wrong, with tools bent into shape, this task is really too large to be reasonably contemplated. Unless you have a few extra months to use waiting for results, and you'd have to keep your mitts off the disk in the meanwhile. Just not a good idea to take that approach. ___ 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 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl97fYACgkQz62J6PPcoOmJzgCePrJCKxJc6y92RNJPa+Nr76GY dDoAniq7ay6Bb72eVUFVOeyxWo5IPehc =r9vi -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: Why are the Zionist leaders in Israel so happy about the newPresident?
Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:04:15PM +, Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Lawrence Auster wrote: Bla bla bla Ku Klux Klan crap. Why don't you bring your hatred outta here. This is a family-oriented channel. Next time, even when you put OOT label on subject, I still will call it crap. If you name me Jewish lover, well, I'm Asian, that means I'm a chink. But it's Mr. Chink to you, thank you very much. Technically, chink is a slur for Chinese -- not Asian in general. Just tryin' ta help. I was noticing that he's been crapping over the GentooLinux lists also (at the very least, along with a long list of FreeBSD lists, not just -Questions) and he's learned to obfuscate his source address. Not that he couldn't be blocked, and I (for one) really dislike offering him his pulpit of hate here. Besides, we all know its the Amish who are really in control. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl97rAACgkQz62J6PPcoOk6NgCfUmpfbMCO7ESzGAzl+yUJwAS2 Z/wAoJPjoAD6dXmuEJotYKpkRaP9VOPj =vI85 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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 ___ 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: X11 forwarding through SSH: Can't open display
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sk89q wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to sk89q the.sk...@gmail.com: I meant sshd_config. Do you have the xauth package installed on the remote server? You don't need a full X install, but X11 forwarding won't work without xauth installed. Yes, I do (at least to my knowledge), but xauth is located at /usr/local/bin/xauth. sshd wasn't able to find xauth, so I made a hard link at /usr/X11/bin/xauth to /usr/local/bin/xauth. That fixed a can't-find-xauth error, and that's where I am now. I think a far more likely thing might be being missed here. Usually when I'm surprised when a new system refuses to allow me to remotely open X apps, it's not the problem of ssh, it's because X11, by default, doesn't open up the port 6000 IP socket to allow remotes to work. You can easily use netstat, to look for open sockets 6xxx range, opened by your X server. If you can't find it, then some part of your X installation is likely giving the -nolisten tcp commands when starting up the X server. I don't know how you open your X, so I couldn't directly tell you how to fix this. Being a bit more honest, the X server itself doesn't block the remote ports. It's all of the startup tools (like startx) which stick in the anti-remote prejudice. Giving the fact that it IS a security risk, I guess they're right, it just means that if you want remote operation, you need to tell X (via whatever startup method you use) to stop blocking the opening of that port 6000. On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: sk89q wrote: Hello, I am using FreeBSD 6.2 and I have been trying to get X11 forwarding through SSH to work. I've gotten to the point where the environment variable DISPLAY is set, but I get a Can't open display error when I attempt to run an X application. The remote server in question does not have an X server install. In /etc/ssh/ssh_config, I have the following lines: X11Forwarding yes AllowTcpForwarding yes UseLogin no Have a look at /etc/ssh/sshd_config of the remote server and restart sshd after modification. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ 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 -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ 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 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl98QwACgkQz62J6PPcoOmRaQCglJDR9D5/C1Wp5Q0cnd6Z3bi3 cvMAoI14mmJVzWWhRsJmT0lKsvakVkbu =BS/x -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD
(6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64).
What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines,
but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture.
I also want to make rebuilding indexes run as fast as possible.
Right now, I simply exports(5) /usr/ports via NFSv3 ...
...
The following 2 lines on each machine in /etc/make.conf should
fix those problems:
PACKAGES=${PORTSDIR}/packages/${ARCH}
INDEXFILE=INDEX-${ARCH}-${OSVERSION:C/([0-9]).*/\1/}
It would seem the package building tools (make package, portinstall -p)
do not honor the PACKAGES setting in /etc/make.conf. The package is
simply deposited in /usr/ports/{category}/{pkgname}. Is there a way to
force the package builder to use this knob?
--
Regards,
Doug
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Hey, you never responded to my friend request on Going
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Dual-head issues w/ the latest Xorg updates
Seems I've been bitten by the latest Xorg updates that trickled into ports late last week. Firstly, I stumbled with the AllowEmptyInput thing, as described in /usr/ports/UPDATING (20090123 entry). Fine, that was easy enough. After that, I found that the sis driver was broken, or at least it resulted in my card no longer working. Granted, I have a very old 4MB (or maybe 8MB) card I snagged at a thrift shop to drive my 2nd monitor. So I gave up on the sis driver, and tried to run w/ the vesa driver. No luck, either. I can't seem to get that working now. Either dual-head got tweaked with the latest X updates, or my understanding of setting up X is extremely deficient. My guess is the latter. It's very frustrating that it just worked, then stopped. Having this blank CRT in my field of vision is really tweaking me out. :) So, before I get involved in a storm of posting copies of my xorg.conf and log files, has anyone else had issues with the new Xorg stuff? Also, is there a good howto for setting up Xorg with 2 heads and 2 different cards? In the mean time, I'll be recompiling the whole chain of programs with the default make options, just to make sure my custom CPUTYPE and optimizations didn't break stuff. Thanks. -- Geoff P.S. -- If it comes down to posting full config/log files, what's the preferred method, inline or as attachments? ___ 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: Solaris Compat?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar wrote: I don't want to raise an argument here (on multiple levels, no less...), but what would the compatibility be between FreeBSD (release) and Solaris? Why I ask is Adobe have released a version of flash for Solaris, and I'm wondering if this might work better than the linux_compat types. I tried it's nonsense to FreeBSD developers to do workaround just because adobe don't want to make FreeBSD binary. If they don't want to make, then they DONT WANT US to use their product. They DO HAVE RIGHT to do so, and please respect their rights! PS. Of course it's nonsense what they do, but again it's their right to do stupid things I really, really dislike the notion that any company, in the selfishly sheer pursuit of profits, should be able to dictate to anyone what that person should be able to do, giving that it's within the limits of the law. Not allowing one to view many sites ISN'T within the moral control of any company, as long as you don't violate laws in doing it. Telling me that I should respect some idiot being able to tell me what I should or should not do with my own personal equipment (again, as long as you stay legal) is is the worst sort of moral cowardice. If you look at what Adobe is doing, they're making it obviously clear that they don't care about you using their tools, they only don't want you to use the operating system of your choice. And you want me to respect that, right? Sheesh! Why is it you use FreeBSD? Isn't it obviously clear that MicroSoft doesn't want you to? As long as you stay within the letter of the law, don't be so pusillanimous as to allow *any* company to dictate your free speech. As long as you stay within the law, then Free Speech is precisely what this all comes down to, and my rights to use whatever operating system I care to. Same as it's Adobe's right to refuse to support such a choice, which I agree with. But they can't tell me what I can do on my own. If I misunderstood you, above, then I apologize, but if I correctly read your meaning, then I'm sure my personal rights are important enough to me, to stay the course here. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl99qEACgkQz62J6PPcoOkO4wCfZjUdhbszESNHXKrdM8JvxbSS we0An2zAvnI/0cNM4cxTMrH8Zh/qxkUz =Unze -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: overwriting NOT_FOR_ARCHS via /etc/make.conf has no effect
On Monday 26 January 2009 05:06:48 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:55:29 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm trying to overwrite a Makefile variable via /etc/make.conf It doesn't seem to work: This behaviour is correct. The local makefiles have precedence before the /etc/make.conf settings. They don't, even though it seems so. The Makefile is *read* after /etc/make.conf. The Makefile sets this variable unconditionally, therefore cannot be overridden by anything that is read before the Makefile. If the Makefile defined it like so: NOT_FOR_ARCHS?=alpha ia64 then /etc/make.conf would work, since the variable is defined at the time the Makefile is read. What am I doing wrong? You could modify the port's Makefile itself, or create Makefile.local in the port's dicrectory with your specific settings, but I don't now if this mechanism is still supported. It is and since Makefile.local is read *after* the Makefile, you can override the variable there. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ 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: Registry corrupt?
On Monday 26 January 2009 03:27:43 Jack L. Stone wrote: At 04:27 PM 1.25.2009 -0900, you wrote: On Saturday 24 January 2009 04:06:39 Jack L. Stone wrote: At 04:33 PM 1.23.2009 +0100, cpghost wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:56:45PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jack L. Stone BUT, it is executable and using the exact path to the program still gives this error: /usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup: not found file /usr/bin/perl will give you the answer. -- Mel Yes, know it's perl and here's how I really use fastest_cvsup: # /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 -h `(fastest_cvsup -q -c us )` \ # /root/kernels/7.0.src-supfile The above finds the fastest fbsd source and cvsup's from it. But, was getting fastest_cvsup not found fastest_cvsup did not find perl. Your /usr/bin/perl is a *broken* symlink to a perl version that does not exist anymore, which file /usr/bin/perl would show you if you actually did run that command. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ 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: make -jN build with portmaster
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:41:05PM -0900, Mel wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2009 20:48:22 Doug Barton wrote: Josh Carroll wrote: What I do is the following via make.conf, I think this is a good solution. Given that incredible foot-shooting power of the -j stuff I am not inclined to add something like this to portmaster, not even as an advanced option. Yes, I understand the problem with that. The make.conf solution is good enough for now. ;) Given the fact that the build target is presumably -j safe (as far as the ports system is concerned), it would be nice to have a BUILD_JOBS in Mk/bsd.port.mk similar to INDEX_JOBS that is already there. Port maintainers then can also set WITHOUT_PARALLEL (or USE_PARALLEL=NO etc) for ports that break by themselves (f.e. www/lynx, editors/vim). portmaster should then have no problem setting BUILD_JOBS on request. That would be absolutely perfect! At least, big ports (www/firefox3 etc...) that take a long time to compile could use USE_PARALLEL=YES right now (or the solution with make.conf) if they are safe with -jN. The gazillion smallish ports could come later when maintainers have some time to follow up, but they are not really all that critical. Memory may fail me, but wasn't there a GSoC project to parallelize the ports infrastructure? Or was that about building many different ports simultaneously instead of one port on multiple cores? -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ 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: Wierd Port Problem
On Monday 26 January 2009 09:01:37 Jeffrey R. Hellem wrote: tried again today :P still no goran your command at the end.. hope it helps [r...@server /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba]# make === PHPizing for php5-dba-5.2.8 === php5-dba-5.2.8 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/phpize - found === php5-dba-5.2.8 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.62 - found Configuring for: PHP Api Version: 20041225 Zend Module Api No: 20060613 Zend Extension Api No: 220060519 === php5-dba-5.2.8 depends on shared library: gdbm.3 - found === php5-dba-5.2.8 depends on shared library: db41.1 - found snip useless autotools warnings === Configuring for php5-dba-5.2.8 [r...@server /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba]# make install I'm missing a build here. Can you instead of typing make install, type make build? -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ 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: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.
On Monday 26 January 2009 08:23:13 Doug Poland wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD
(6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64).
What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines,
but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture.
I also want to make rebuilding indexes run as fast as possible.
Right now, I simply exports(5) /usr/ports via NFSv3 ...
...
The following 2 lines on each machine in /etc/make.conf should
fix those problems:
PACKAGES=${PORTSDIR}/packages/${ARCH}
INDEXFILE=INDEX-${ARCH}-${OSVERSION:C/([0-9]).*/\1/}
It would seem the package building tools (make package, portinstall -p)
do not honor the PACKAGES setting in /etc/make.conf. The package is
simply deposited in /usr/ports/{category}/{pkgname}. Is there a way to
force the package builder to use this knob?
make package respects it.
portinstall -p might override it itself in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.
Hurray for sane defaults.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1
FreeBSD a écrit : Hi everyone, Just to put you in context, I applied the following patch to make the card available: SVN rev 186389 on 2008-12-22 00:46:22Z by yongari Since we don't request reset for rlphy(4), the link state 'UP' event from mii(4) may not be delivered if valid link was already established. To address the issue, check current link state after driving MII_TICK. This should fix a regression introduced in r185753 on fast ethernet controllers. --- I don't have any issue related to that anymore. The problem is that I get link UP/DOWN a few times per hour on 3 identical machines that I dumped/restored. They are all pluged in a Cisco switch that works fine for every other PCs. Jan 26 06:09:15 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN Jan 26 06:09:17 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP I tried to switch cables, but I got the same result. There is the pciconf -lv output: r...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x02831028 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass = ethernet There is the output of vmstat -i: interrupt total rate irq18: re0 ehci0++ 63766 0 irq19: atapci0277001 3 cpu0: timer156068748 1961 Total 156409515 1966 Could it be related to the fact that there is re0 and ehci0++ on the same IRQ? Thank you for your help, Martin I just tried with a brand new Dell 2708 switch and the problem is still there. I just confirmed that the UP/DOWN occurs every 10 minutes (+- a few seconds). Thanks again, Martin ___ 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
ELF format alternative ?
Hi all: Curious to know if there are under research or known format other than ELF format ? Pls note i'm aware of a.out and COFF, ELF format was developed by wonderful USL. -- thanks Saifi. ___ 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: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1
If you do a dmesg are you also showing a watchdog time out for the nic ? I only ask as I am having the exact same problem with the exact same card and I have yet to find a solution, if I come across something I will let you know. Regards Graeme -Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 26 January 2009 18:58 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 FreeBSD a écrit : Hi everyone, Just to put you in context, I applied the following patch to make the card available: SVN rev 186389 on 2008-12-22 00:46:22Z by yongari Since we don't request reset for rlphy(4), the link state 'UP' event from mii(4) may not be delivered if valid link was already established. To address the issue, check current link state after driving MII_TICK. This should fix a regression introduced in r185753 on fast ethernet controllers. --- I don't have any issue related to that anymore. The problem is that I get link UP/DOWN a few times per hour on 3 identical machines that I dumped/restored. They are all pluged in a Cisco switch that works fine for every other PCs. Jan 26 06:09:15 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN Jan 26 06:09:17 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP I tried to switch cables, but I got the same result. There is the pciconf -lv output: r...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x02831028 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass = ethernet There is the output of vmstat -i: interrupt total rate irq18: re0 ehci0++ 63766 0 irq19: atapci0277001 3 cpu0: timer156068748 1961 Total 156409515 1966 Could it be related to the fact that there is re0 and ehci0++ on the same IRQ? Thank you for your help, Martin I just tried with a brand new Dell 2708 switch and the problem is still there. I just confirmed that the UP/DOWN occurs every 10 minutes (+- a few seconds). Thanks again, Martin ___ 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 ___ 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: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1
Graeme Dargie a écrit : If you do a dmesg are you also showing a watchdog time out for the nic ? I only ask as I am having the exact same problem with the exact same card and I have yet to find a solution, if I come across something I will let you know. Regards Graeme Not a single time...sorry. -Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 26 January 2009 18:58 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 FreeBSD a écrit : Hi everyone, Just to put you in context, I applied the following patch to make the card available: SVN rev 186389 on 2008-12-22 00:46:22Z by yongari Since we don't request reset for rlphy(4), the link state 'UP' event from mii(4) may not be delivered if valid link was already established. To address the issue, check current link state after driving MII_TICK. This should fix a regression introduced in r185753 on fast ethernet controllers. --- I don't have any issue related to that anymore. The problem is that I get link UP/DOWN a few times per hour on 3 identical machines that I dumped/restored. They are all pluged in a Cisco switch that works fine for every other PCs. Jan 26 06:09:15 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN Jan 26 06:09:17 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP I tried to switch cables, but I got the same result. There is the pciconf -lv output: r...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x02831028 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass = ethernet There is the output of vmstat -i: interrupt total rate irq18: re0 ehci0++ 63766 0 irq19: atapci0277001 3 cpu0: timer156068748 1961 Total 156409515 1966 Could it be related to the fact that there is re0 and ehci0++ on the same IRQ? Thank you for your help, Martin I just tried with a brand new Dell 2708 switch and the problem is still there. I just confirmed that the UP/DOWN occurs every 10 minutes (+- a few seconds). Thanks again, Martin ___ 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 ___ 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: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
But this does not (!) make the media mountable! You may see that as a disadvantage, but maybe it's not: You can access it now directly without needing to mount it, and you can extract from it by selection, e. g. % tar xvjf /dev/cd0 ~/music to only extract the music/ subtree. The tar file system is best for interoperability because (if I may say this) every UNIX-like OS can read tar, no matter if you put it n discs, disks, tapes or even hard disks or USB sticks. I was curious to tar directly to a blank dvd+rw. I tried: tar -cvf /dev/cd1 root0-090107.gz root1-090116.gz a root0-090107.gz a root1-090116.gz I got the prompt back but the dvd device stays busy (on the unit, the light flashes non stop). Any ideas? Regis -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-to-create-a-DVD-backup-filesystem--tp21617046p21673928.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ 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: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
I was curious to tar directly to a blank dvd+rw. I tried: tar -cvf /dev/cd1 root0-090107.gz root1-090116.gz a root0-090107.gz a root1-090116.gz I got the prompt back but the dvd device stays busy (on the unit, the light flashes non stop). Any ideas? perform ANY read from the drive and that's all :) ___ 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: Solaris Compat?
pursuit of profits, should be able to dictate to anyone what that person should They DO NOT DICTATE ANYTHING. It's quite free market here, you can use they product or not. I don't use, mostly because it doesn't run on an OS that i use. ___ 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: can i split a pdf file?
On Mon 26 Jan 2009 at 00:16:23 PST Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Thanks, Gents, But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf to speech program) couldn't decode it. This is a typical problem with poorly engineered PDFs where the author puts in the text as images (you'll see this stupidity across the Web, too). In most cases where I've seen this, it's because they had scanned an actual printed document. Many old, out-of-print books are being made newly available this way, so I'm not inclined to complain. Unfortunately, OCR software still isn't reliable enough (or, if reliable, cheap enough) to convert these scanned images to actual text. ___ 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
printf and utf-8
As far as I can see, printf is not calculating strings lengths correctly when using utf-8 encoding. Either that, or I'm using byte count, and can't find the character count :-/ Eg: $ printf |%-10s| æøå |æøå| $ printf |%-10s| 123 |123 | I'm on 7.1-p2 sv. ___ 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: Solaris Compat?
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 12:45 -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar wrote: I don't want to raise an argument here (on multiple levels, no less...), but what would the compatibility be between FreeBSD (release) and Solaris? Why I ask is Adobe have released a version of flash for Solaris, and I'm wondering if this might work better than the linux_compat types. I tried it's nonsense to FreeBSD developers to do workaround just because adobe don't want to make FreeBSD binary. If they don't want to make, then they DONT WANT US to use their product. They DO HAVE RIGHT to do so, and please respect their rights! PS. Of course it's nonsense what they do, but again it's their right to do stupid things I really, really dislike the notion that any company, in the selfishly sheer pursuit of profits, should be able to dictate to anyone what that person should be able to do, giving that it's within the limits of the law. Not allowing one to view many sites ISN'T within the moral control of any company, as long as you don't violate laws in doing it. Telling me that I should respect some idiot being able to tell me what I should or should not do with my own personal equipment (again, as long as you stay legal) is is the worst sort of moral cowardice. If you look at what Adobe is doing, they're making it obviously clear that they don't care about you using their tools, they only don't want you to use the operating system of your choice. And you want me to respect that, right? Sheesh! Why is it you use FreeBSD? Isn't it obviously clear that MicroSoft doesn't want you to? As long as you stay within the letter of the law, don't be so pusillanimous as to allow *any* company to dictate your free speech. As long as you stay within the law, then Free Speech is precisely what this all comes down to, and my rights to use whatever operating system I care to. Same as it's Adobe's right to refuse to support such a choice, which I agree with. But they can't tell me what I can do on my own. If I misunderstood you, above, then I apologize, but if I correctly read your meaning, then I'm sure my personal rights are important enough to me, to stay the course here. As I said before, I didn't want to start an argument, and Adobe now don't care what system you use: just that they will only support those systems designated. If you can get linux flashplayer working on FreeBSD then thats cool- just don't go whinging to them about how to do it or fix it if it doesn't work. My interest here is that they HAVE supported Solaris (Sun's influence has finally swayed them) which, unless I'm very much mistaken, is a closer relative of FreeBSD than linux. Any further thoughts on this front? ___ 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: can i split a pdf file?
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:16:23AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Thanks, Gents, But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf to speech program) couldn't decode it. This is a typical problem with poorly engineered PDFs where the author puts in the text as images (you'll see this stupidity across the Web, too). So what kind of moron is going to photograph pages --or maybe just get-screenshot-of-this-page and upload it? Or a Real question: I read an online pdf of The Art of War from the 1880's [?], and it was in an old-English or olden-Deutsch type font. In PDF. i have other p.d. texts in pdf and am wondering in there is some sort of scanner than can take a book-length script and create a pdf file. Anybody know? A good tool to check if the PDF file can be (audibly) read is the use of the tool pdftotext from the port xpdf. % pdftotext bla.pdf less bla.txt Then, even the FF speech plugin should work correctly - as long as the PDF file contains decodable text. If it's just a bunch of images, well, what are we expecting, hm? FF-speech: You see a pretty image of some text... :-) Yeah, that's about right! I got a bunch of ^L bytes and nothing else. Now I'm looking at the file with od -c and, yup, it's and image. The parts inbetween pages are in ASCII. Do you know what MediaBox is? At least the web article was not an image! Google had it both in PDF and HTML. gary -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ 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: printf and utf-8
On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: As far as I can see, printf is not calculating strings lengths correctly when using utf-8 encoding. Either that, or I'm using byte count, and can't find the character count :-/ printf(1) explicitly states that it works with ASCII and ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89'') character escapes, and it also notes: Multibyte characters are not recognized in format strings (this is only a problem if `%' can appear inside a multibyte character). Some platforms have a printf_l(3) which is locale/xlocale-aware, but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding CLI utility which understands Unicode/UTF8/widechars. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ 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: can i split a pdf file?
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:06:23PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:16:23AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Thanks, Gents, But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf to speech program) couldn't decode it. This is a typical problem with poorly engineered PDFs where the author puts in the text as images (you'll see this stupidity across the Web, too). So what kind of moron is going to photograph pages --or maybe just get-screenshot-of-this-page and upload it? It happens quite frequently nowadays. Those PDFs are usually scanned, and the scanner software (usually on Windows) assembles all screenshots into a PDF of images. That's what you find on the Net. This is not such a bad idea, esp. when it comes to technical textbooks, which usually contain a lot of diagrams, formulae, tables etc...; since an OCR software that would be able to reverse all this into LaTeX and EPS figures has yet to be programmed (that's a difficult task). Or a Real question: I read an online pdf of The Art of War from the 1880's [?], and it was in an old-English or olden-Deutsch type font. In PDF. i have other p.d. texts in pdf and am wondering in there is some sort of scanner than can take a book-length script and create a pdf file. Anybody know? It all depends how the PDF is created. Some PDFs encode the fonts in a special section, and then use text (sometimes compressed or encrypted), which refers to those fonts. In such a case, you could extract the pure text from the PDF. Other PDFs simply encode the book as a set of bitmaps (see above); and then your only chance is to find an OCR software that would not only be able to recognize the characters in the bitmaps, but also to cope with those Fraktur- or other exotic fonts. Some OCR programs are interactive and trainable, so that you can say: this is an 'S', and that is a 'T'..., but AFAIK, there's no free and open source OCR program with this capability (yet). A good tool to check if the PDF file can be (audibly) read is the use of the tool pdftotext from the port xpdf. % pdftotext bla.pdf less bla.txt Then, even the FF speech plugin should work correctly - as long as the PDF file contains decodable text. If it's just a bunch of images, well, what are we expecting, hm? FF-speech: You see a pretty image of some text... :-) Yeah, that's about right! I got a bunch of ^L bytes and nothing else. Now I'm looking at the file with od -c and, yup, it's and image. The parts inbetween pages are in ASCII. Do you know what MediaBox is? So it's a set of images. There's not much you could do about it. Oh, you can still try to extract the images from the PDF by using the program 'pdfimages' (part of the graphics/xpdf port); and look at them individually with an image processor (Gimp etc...). Then run an OCR program on those images. Try graphics/gocr for example. But it would still be tedious, to say the least. At least the web article was not an image! Google had it both in PDF and HTML. gary -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ 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
OT: .ape extension
is it any decruncher for unix for this format (it's compressed audio CD, from size i think it's kind of lossless compression) ___ 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: can i split a pdf file?
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:36:48PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: On Mon 26 Jan 2009 at 00:16:23 PST Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Thanks, Gents, But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf to speech program) couldn't decode it. This is a typical problem with poorly engineered PDFs where the author puts in the text as images (you'll see this stupidity across the Web, too). In most cases where I've seen this, it's because they had scanned an actual printed document. Many old, out-of-print books are being made newly available this way, so I'm not inclined to complain. Unfortunately, OCR software still isn't reliable enough (or, if reliable, cheap enough) to convert these scanned images to actual text. You're probably right about the cost/performance idea. Still, before I get back to the Last few pages of my thesis, maybe I'll try feeding parts of my most vanilla image-PDF file to an opensource OCR program. I'm pretty sure there are a couple in ports. IIRC, though, the images have to be jpegs of tiffs or the like. If anybody knows, please give me a shout out! gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ 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: OT: .ape extension
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:39:19PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: is it any decruncher for unix for this format (it's compressed audio CD, from size i think it's kind of lossless compression) What does file(1) think it is? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ 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: OT: .ape extension
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:39:19PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: is it any decruncher for unix for this format (it's compressed audio CD, from size i think it's kind of lossless compression) What does file(1) think it is? don't think anything, says data ___ 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: OT: .ape extension
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:52:48PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:39:19PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: is it any decruncher for unix for this format (it's compressed audio CD, from size i think it's kind of lossless compression) What does file(1) think it is? don't think anything, says data Monkey's Audio: http://www.monkeysaudio.com/ -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ 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: OT: .ape extension
On Monday 26 January 2009 13:39:19 Wojciech Puchar wrote: is it any decruncher for unix for this format (it's compressed audio CD, from size i think it's kind of lossless compression) # cd /usr/ports/audio # grep -l APE */pkg-descr gnormalize/pkg-descr optimfrog/pkg-descr p5-Audio-Musepack/pkg-descr py-apetag/pkg-descr py-musepack/pkg-descr py-mutagen/pkg-descr py-tagpy/pkg-descr soundconverter/pkg-descr -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ 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
danging dbufs in ZFS v6 , FreeBSD 7.1
A problem I'm hoping you can solve ! Running on a 64bit platform with 5, 500GB HDDs in a basic raidz configuration classically named 'tank', I began copying a file. During the copy, I lost a disk. Since these are all hot swappable SATA drives, I pulled the one I *thought* had died and swapped in a good drive, which powered up and I attempted a 'replace'. The copy was still proceeding... (you see where this is going...) This wasn't the broken drive I pulled, which I quickly found after the replace attempt ! In an effort to put the good drive back into the array, I reconnected and rebooted the machine citing possible 'drive disappearance' problems with the stunt I just pulled. Nothing doing. The kernel hung at : panic : dangling dbufs. dn = 0xff000a49f338 dbuf = 0xff000a4a01e0 Leading me to believe the array is dead. :-/ I am happy to lose the data that was copied at the time of failure if it's possible to recover the rest of the array. I suppose that the rest of the data remains intact. Is there a way to rid myself of the dangling buffers to get back to a usable state ? (some dd magic ?) Could I recover by using a newer version of ZFS for FreeBSD ? (v13 instead of v v6) Quickly it moved from : NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM tankDEGRADED 0 0 0 raidz1DEGRADED 0 0 0 da0 ONLINE 0 0 0 da1 UNAVAIL 0 887 0 cannot open da2 ONLINE 0 0 0 ad5 ONLINE 0 0 0 ad6 ONLINE 0 0 0 to : NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM tankUNAVAIL 0 0 0 insufficient replicas raidz1UNAVAIL 0 0 0 insufficient replicas da0 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open da1 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open da2 ONLINE 0 0 0 ad5 ONLINE 0 0 0 ad6 ONLINE 0 0 0 ___ 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: printf and utf-8
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: As far as I can see, printf is not calculating strings lengths correctly when using utf-8 encoding. Either that, or I'm using byte count, and can't find the character count :-/ printf(1) explicitly states that it works with ASCII and ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89'') character escapes, and it also notes: Multibyte characters are not recognized in format strings (this is only a problem if `%' can appear inside a multibyte character). Some platforms have a printf_l(3) which is locale/xlocale-aware, but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding CLI utility which understands Unicode/UTF8/widechars. Thanks for your explanation. Do you have a suggestion to solve the following problem without using printf(1): I have a text file that I want to print in a box on a terminal from a shell script. Now I've padded the lines with spaces to a certain length using printf %-70s and appended the box drawing character. Is there another simple way that will work with utf-8? sv. ___ 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: printf and utf-8
On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Do you have a suggestion to solve the following problem without using printf(1): I have a text file that I want to print in a box on a terminal from a shell script. Now I've padded the lines with spaces to a certain length using printf %-70s and appended the box drawing character. Is there another simple way that will work with utf-8? My first thought was about dialog(1), but I'm not sure whether that deals with UTF8 any better...? -- -Chuck ___ 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: OT: .ape extension
Mel wrote: On Monday 26 January 2009 13:39:19 Wojciech Puchar wrote: is it any decruncher for unix for this format (it's compressed audio CD, from size i think it's kind of lossless compression) # cd /usr/ports/audio # grep -l APE */pkg-descr gnormalize/pkg-descr optimfrog/pkg-descr p5-Audio-Musepack/pkg-descr py-apetag/pkg-descr py-musepack/pkg-descr py-mutagen/pkg-descr py-tagpy/pkg-descr soundconverter/pkg-descr And audio/aqualung as well. ___ 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: printf and utf-8
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Do you have a suggestion to solve the following problem without using printf(1): I have a text file that I want to print in a box on a terminal from a shell script. Now I've padded the lines with spaces to a certain length using printf %-70s and appended the box drawing character. Is there another simple way that will work with utf-8? My first thought was about dialog(1), but I'm not sure whether that deals with UTF8 any better...? No, it doesn't seem to. Also it clears the entire screen to draw the box. I only want a small box, and not clear the screen, and I don't want a OK-button or any other user interaction. Just print the simple box, then whatever follows from the script should print after it. Nevertheless, thanks for your help and your time! sv. ___ 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
which video card for dual monitor portrait?
I like to use dual monitors in portrait mode. I am running Freebsd 7.1 STABLE which uses release 7.3 of Xorg afaik. What video card runs * Multimonitor * Rotated using the built-in xorg bundled with Freebsd 7.1? I attempted to use an ATI X1650 PRO which has an RV535 core, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R520#X1650_series xrandr -o left resulted in screen0 being rotated 90 degrees to the left but ending up on screen1 and very slow. I assume that the good stuff in xorg for these cards is in 7.4 and 7.5 releases. What cards allow one to run dual monitor (single card dual dvi) in portrait mode? I am interested in setups that are currently running. Exact make and model of your card along with an xorg.conf would be awesome. Sean ___ 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: OT: .ape extension
from size i think it's kind of lossless compression) # cd /usr/ports/audio # grep -l APE */pkg-descr gnormalize/pkg-descr optimfrog/pkg-descr p5-Audio-Musepack/pkg-descr py-apetag/pkg-descr py-musepack/pkg-descr py-mutagen/pkg-descr py-tagpy/pkg-descr soundconverter/pkg-descr THANKS And audio/aqualung as well. ___ 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
FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server
I'm running the stock FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine. The machine has two physical processors but it seems that FreeBSD 7.1 on sees one. I downloaded the kernel source and it seems that the GENERIC kernel has SMP installed. Is there something else I can try? Thanks in advance for your wisdom. $ sysctl -a | grep cpu kern.threads.virtual_cpu: 1 kern.ccpu: 0 kern.smp.cpus: 1 kern.smp.maxcpus: 16 debug.cpufreq.verbose: 0 debug.cpufreq.lowest: 0 debug.kdb.stop_cpus: 1 debug.stop_cpus_with_nmi: 1 debug.PMAP1changedcpu: 0 hw.ncpu: 1 hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 machdep.cpu_idle_hlt: 1 machdep.hlt_cpus: 0 dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU1 dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/0 dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1133MHz (1128.54-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6b1 Stepping = 1 Features=0x383fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real memory = 1073659904 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1036943360 (988 MB) ACPI APIC Table: IBMSEREMRLD ioapic1 Version 1.1 irqs 16-31 on motherboard ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-15 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) acpi0: IBM SEREMRLD on motherboard acpi0: Overriding SCI Interrupt from IRQ 3 to IRQ 30 acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x4e8-0x4eb on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 vgapci0: VGA-compatible display mem 0xfeb8-0xfebf,0xf000-0xf7ff at device 1.0 on pci0 fxp0: Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0x2200-0x223f mem 0xfeb7f000-0xfeb7,0xfea0-0xfeaf irq 27 at device 2.0 on pci0 fxp0: Disabling dynamic standby mode in EEPROM fxp0: New EEPROM ID: 0x48a0 fxp0: EEPROM checksum @ 0x3f: 0xbe76 - 0xbe76 miibus0: MII bus on fxp0 inphy0: i82555 10/100 media interface PHY 1 on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:02:55:c6:69:58 fxp0: [ITHREAD] fxp1: Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0x2240-0x227f mem 0xfeb7e000-0xfeb7efff,0xfe90-0xfe9f irq 25 at device 10.0 on pci0 fxp1: Disabling dynamic standby mode in EEPROM fxp1: New EEPROM ID: 0x48a0 fxp1: EEPROM checksum @ 0x3f: 0x2d79 - 0x2d79 miibus1: MII bus on fxp1 inphy1: i82555 10/100 media interface PHY 1 on miibus1 inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp1: Ethernet address: 00:02:55:c6:69:59 fxp1: [ITHREAD] isab0: PCI-ISA bridge port 0x440-0x44f at device 15.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: ServerWorks ROSB4 UDMA33 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x700-0x70f at device 15.1 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata0: [ITHREAD] ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 ata1: [ITHREAD] ohci0: OHCI (generic) USB controller mem 0xfeb7d000-0xfeb7dfff irq 7 at device 15.2 on pci0 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ohci0: [ITHREAD] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: OHCI (generic) USB controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: (0x1166) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb0 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pcib1: ACPI Host-PCI bridge on acpi0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 ahc0: Adaptec aic7892 Ultra160 SCSI adapter port 0x2300-0x23ff mem 0xe000-0xefff irq 28 at device 3.0 on pci1 ahc0: [ITHREAD] aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs atapci1: Promise PDC40779 SATA300 controller port 0x2280-0x22ff,0x2400-0x24ff mem 0xefffe000-0xefffefff,0xeffc-0xeffd irq 20 at device 5.0 on pci1 atapci1: [ITHREAD] atapci1: [ITHREAD] ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci1 ata2: [ITHREAD] ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci1 ata3: [ITHREAD] ata4: ATA channel 2 on atapci1 ata4: [ITHREAD] ata5: ATA channel 3 on atapci1 ata5: [ITHREAD] atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] atkbd0: [ITHREAD] fdc0: floppy drive controller port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FILTER] fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio0: [FILTER] cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: ISA Option ROMs at iomem 0xc-0xcafff,0xcb000-0xcc7ff,0xcc800-0xd4fff pnpid ORM on isa0 ppc0: parallel port not found.
Can not set up two ADSL link to provider
Здравствуйте, Freebsd-questions. I can not setup two ADSL PPPoE Links to same provider. Because of imposibility to setup route for second connection First connection gets: ng0: flags=88d1UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1492 inet 92.113.94.215 -- 195.5.5.203 netmask 0x Second can not be established because of: Jan 27 01:27:55 kes mpd: [UKR_B4] IFACE: Add address 92.113.94.249/32-195.5.5.203 to ng1 Jan 27 01:27:55 kes mpd: [UKR_B4] IFACE: Adding IPv4 address to ng1 failed: File exists My suggestion is that that FreeBSD can not establish two ptp links with same gateway, cat it? please help to resolve problem -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ 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: can i split a pdf file?
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:06:23 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: So what kind of moron is going to photograph pages --or maybe just get-screenshot-of-this-page and upload it? The PDF serves as a container for pictural images in this context. Another idea would be to have separate image files, one file per page, that you could view at with your favourite image viewer. The advantage of the PDF container is that you can easily print a bunch of pages (or, a book). Or a Real question: I read an online pdf of The Art of War from the 1880's [?], and it was in an old-English or olden-Deutsch type font. In PDF. i have other p.d. texts in pdf and am wondering in there is some sort of scanner than can take a book-length script and create a pdf file. Anybody know? It's very complicated to handle old fonts using OCR techniques. It's even quite complicated with today's standard fonts. Allthough there are (usually expensive) OCR programs with good algorithms, most documents need some work afterwards. It's not only about correcting mis-recognized characters, you have to handle hyphenation and paragraph typesetting as well. I know that there are scanners that can process a bunch op paper (sheets of paper) through an automatic feeder, then scan them and finally have a PDF file ready for FTP download. But there's no OCR involved, of course. I got a bunch of ^L bytes and nothing else. The Ctrl-L (^L) is the page break character (FF = form feed). The rest of the file then contains images that are not transformable into characters. Now I'm looking at the file with od -c and, yup, it's and image. The parts inbetween pages are in ASCII. Do you know what MediaBox is? An image container maybe? So every page contains of a MediaBox container holding one image. At least the web article was not an image! Don't mind, I know important web pages where the text content actually IS an image, and of course theres no alt= or longdesc= parameter because they're for weenies. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: OT: .ape extension
ports/audio/mac works, thanks On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:52:48PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:39:19PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: is it any decruncher for unix for this format (it's compressed audio CD, from size i think it's kind of lossless compression) What does file(1) think it is? don't think anything, says data Monkey's Audio: http://www.monkeysaudio.com/ -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ 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: can i split a pdf file?
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:51:14 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Still, before I get back to the Last few pages of my thesis, maybe I'll try feeding parts of my most vanilla image-PDF file to an opensource OCR program. I'm pretty sure there are a couple in ports. IIRC, though, the images have to be jpegs of tiffs or the like. If anybody knows, please give me a shout out! The best idea is to use a format that does not have artifacts due to image compression through DCT or similar algorithms, read: real black-white pictures (1 bit color). JPEG is not such a format, you can see this by magnifying the surrounding of text: it is gray and looks dusty. TIFF, GIF and PNG surely are better formats for feeding images into an OCR processor. (Background: Long time ago, I knew a man who did electronics and printed circuit boards. In order to save hard disk space, he converted his 1-bit BMP images of the schematics and the PCB layout to JPEG format - instead of just zipping, raring or arjing them. He was very unhappy to see them coming out of the printer so dirty, partially unreadable then allthough it was a high quality office class laser printer. And when he took the PCBs out of the acid bath, their previously photochemical treated surface looked strange, had holes in the copper, ready to be thrown away. This man was very upset when he was told about DCT and artifacts. Later on, he used GIF images and turned happy again.) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: make -jN build with portmaster
snip That would be absolutely perfect! +1 snip Memory may fail me, but wasn't there a GSoC project to parallelize the ports infrastructure? Or was that about building many different ports simultaneously instead of one port on multiple cores? -cpghost. http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2008#head-1abba39cb7f9d11ebef625f2287dbaebe6daf000 Ready to enter CVS: Probably not. -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ 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: Can not set up two ADSL link to provider
On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:34 PM, KES wrote: I can not setup two ADSL PPPoE Links to same provider. Because of imposibility to setup route for second connection First connection gets: ng0: flags=88d1UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1492 inet 92.113.94.215 -- 195.5.5.203 netmask 0x Second can not be established because of: Jan 27 01:27:55 kes mpd: [UKR_B4] IFACE: Add address 92.113.94.249/32-195.5.5.203 to ng1 Jan 27 01:27:55 kes mpd: [UKR_B4] IFACE: Adding IPv4 address to ng1 failed: File exists You should talk to your network provider and ask them whether they want you to do multilink PPP or IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation. Either way, the bonding of the two connections should give you a single virtual network interface (tunX for the first, probably, and laggX in the second case) which has only a single route. For example: http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/erx/junose80/swconfig-physical/html/ethernet-config14.html ...talks about After you configure the LAG bundle, you can route IP traffic over it, create a VLAN over it, or route PPPoE traffic over it. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ 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: can i split a pdf file?
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:39:06 +0100, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote:
Those PDFs are usually scanned,
and the scanner software (usually on Windows) assembles all screenshots
into a PDF of images.
Handy for printing, but not for OCR postprocessing.
That's what you find on the Net.
On the Web. :-)
This is not such a bad idea, esp. when it comes to technical textbooks,
which usually contain a lot of diagrams, formulae, tables etc...; since
an OCR software that would be able to reverse all this into LaTeX and
EPS figures has yet to be programmed (that's a difficult task).
As I've already mentioned, scanning the characters is only one part.
Your example of diagrams and formulas is good to illustrate this.
And because LaTeX is the only professional typesetting system
(and no, Word isn't such a tool), it would be really great to
have a tool pdf2tex which would get the characters of the text,
typeset them as in the original (paragraphing, hyphenation etc.),
input embedded pictures as pictures (of course), re-create
formulas so the result would run through pdf-LaTeX and
produce an improved version of the source PDF file.
But that's a task for the next generation of mankind. :-)
Some PDFs encode the fonts
in a special section, and then use text (sometimes compressed
or encrypted), which refers to those fonts. In such a case, you
could extract the pure text from the PDF.
It's worth mentioning that if the original text has characters
(represented in the additionally stored fonts) that have special
accents or orientations (non-english languages usually), the
target system needs to support them, which it usually does through
the means of UTF-8.
Other PDFs simply encode the book as a set of bitmaps (see above);
and then your only chance is to find an OCR software that would not
only be able to recognize the characters in the bitmaps, but also
to cope with those Fraktur- or other exotic fonts.
Yes, das Doytsh Uberfrucktoor makes everything unreadable. :-)
It gets even more complicated with hand-written books...
Some OCR programs
are interactive and trainable, so that you can say: this is an 'S',
and that is a 'T'..., but AFAIK, there's no free and open source
OCR program with this capability (yet).
Wow, never heared of this concept, but really intelligent solution.
If this really works, it still has the disadvantage of needing
much time for training the program, and postprocessing.
It's easier to \usepackage[german]{uberfraktur} to make the text
unreadable again. :-)
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Re: make -jN build with portmaster
On Monday 26 January 2009 14:56:10 Eitan Adler wrote: snip That would be absolutely perfect! +1 snip Memory may fail me, but wasn't there a GSoC project to parallelize the ports infrastructure? Or was that about building many different ports simultaneously instead of one port on multiple cores? -cpghost. http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2008#head-1abba39cb7f9d11ebef625f2287db aebe6daf000 Ready to enter CVS: Probably not. This is different: it allows multiple ports to be built at the same time, not 1 port with multiple make processes. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ 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: X11 forwarding through SSH: Can't open display
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sk89q wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to sk89q the.sk...@gmail.com: I meant sshd_config. Do you have the xauth package installed on the remote server? You don't need a full X install, but X11 forwarding won't work without xauth installed. Yes, I do (at least to my knowledge), but xauth is located at /usr/local/bin/xauth. sshd wasn't able to find xauth, so I made a hard link at /usr/X11/bin/xauth to /usr/local/bin/xauth. That fixed a can't-find-xauth error, and that's where I am now. I think a far more likely thing might be being missed here. Usually when I'm surprised when a new system refuses to allow me to remotely open X apps, it's not the problem of ssh, it's because X11, by default, doesn't open up the port 6000 IP socket to allow remotes to work. You can easily use netstat, to look for open sockets 6xxx range, opened by your X server. If you can't find it, then some part of your X installation is likely giving the -nolisten tcp commands when starting up the X server. I don't know how you open your X, so I couldn't directly tell you how to fix this. Being a bit more honest, the X server itself doesn't block the remote ports. It's all of the startup tools (like startx) which stick in the anti-remote prejudice. Giving the fact that it IS a security risk, I guess they're right, it just means that if you want remote operation, you need to tell X (via whatever startup method you use) to stop blocking the opening of that port 6000. Well, the good news is that it works now. The bad news is that I don't know why. I haven't made a change to anything (except change /etc/motd and restart sshd, which I had already previously done numerous times). Nothing else has been restarted. However, I can say that it was most likely an issue on the server, because now it works with PuTTY, ssh -X on Windows, and ssh -X on Ubuntu. Nevertheless, performance (over the Internet) is pretty bad... so I'll probably have to look into NX (even though the version of FreeNX in the ports system presently doesn't support amd64...). Thanks for everyone's help, sk89q ___ 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: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:21:55AM -0900, Mel wrote:
On Monday 26 January 2009 08:23:13 Doug Poland wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3,
7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64).
What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all
machines, but preserving ports/packages for each
version/architecture. I also want to make rebuilding indexes
run as fast as possible.
Right now, I simply exports(5) /usr/ports via NFSv3 ...
...
The following 2 lines on each machine in /etc/make.conf should
fix those problems:
PACKAGES=${PORTSDIR}/packages/${ARCH}
INDEXFILE=INDEX-${ARCH}-${OSVERSION:C/([0-9]).*/\1/}
It would seem the package building tools (make package, portinstall
-p) do not honor the PACKAGES setting in /etc/make.conf. The
package is simply deposited in /usr/ports/{category}/{pkgname}. Is
there a way to force the package builder to use this knob?
make package respects it.
Curious... I tested it on two different machines, and make package did
not put the package in the expected location. Perhaps I'm missing
something?
portinstall -p might override it itself in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.
Hurray for sane defaults.
I will check that out, thanks.
--
Regards,
Doug
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Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.
On Monday 26 January 2009 16:39:35 Doug Poland wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:21:55AM -0900, Mel wrote:
On Monday 26 January 2009 08:23:13 Doug Poland wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3,
7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64).
What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all
machines, but preserving ports/packages for each
version/architecture. I also want to make rebuilding indexes
run as fast as possible.
Right now, I simply exports(5) /usr/ports via NFSv3 ...
...
The following 2 lines on each machine in /etc/make.conf should
fix those problems:
PACKAGES=${PORTSDIR}/packages/${ARCH}
INDEXFILE=INDEX-${ARCH}-${OSVERSION:C/([0-9]).*/\1/}
It would seem the package building tools (make package, portinstall
-p) do not honor the PACKAGES setting in /etc/make.conf. The
package is simply deposited in /usr/ports/{category}/{pkgname}. Is
there a way to force the package builder to use this knob?
make package respects it.
Curious... I tested it on two different machines, and make package did
not put the package in the expected location. Perhaps I'm missing
something?
Ah, my bad:
Mk/bsd.port.mk:
do-package: ${TMPPLIST}
@if [ -d ${PACKAGES} ]; then \
$PACKAGES has to be created before it respected.
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Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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Re: x11/libXrandr, x11-toolkits/libXmu, graphics/jasper fails to build
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 22:04 -0500, Robert Noland wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 11:22 +1000, Da Rock wrote: Here's another one: /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC--mode=link cc -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -DMALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -version-number 2:1:0 -no-undefined -o libXrandr.la -rpath /usr/local/lib Xrandr.lo XrrConfig.lo XrrCrtc.lo XrrMode.lo XrrOutput.lo XrrProperty.lo XrrScreen.lo -L/usr/local/lib -lX11 -L/usr/local/lib -lXext -lXrender -lX11 grep: /usr/local/lib/libxcb-xlib.la: No such file or directory sed: /usr/local/lib/libxcb-xlib.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-xlib.la' is not a valid libtool archive *** Error code 1 I tried a search myself: ng. I tried to find a config switch for libxcb: ng. Let me know what else you need or what I can do to help here. Obviously other ports are dependent on these and are therefore failing as well. FWIW this is an upgrade using portupgrade. This is fallout from the libxcb update. xcb-xlib no longer exists, you need to update everything that depends on libxcb using your preferred method. I'm now aware of that, but I'm trying to do the updates and nothing is working because they're all still asking for that package. I have to admit I'm not 100% proficient with updating to handle curl balls like this; can you supply some pointers as to how to get around this? Thanks ___ 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: x11/libXrandr, x11-toolkits/libXmu, graphics/jasper fails to build
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 22:04 -0500, Robert Noland wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 11:22 +1000, Da Rock wrote: Here's another one: /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC--mode=link cc -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -DMALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -version-number 2:1:0 -no-undefined -o libXrandr.la -rpath /usr/local/lib Xrandr.lo XrrConfig.lo XrrCrtc.lo XrrMode.lo XrrOutput.lo XrrProperty.lo XrrScreen.lo -L/usr/local/lib -lX11 -L/usr/local/lib -lXext -lXrender -lX11 grep: /usr/local/lib/libxcb-xlib.la: No such file or directory sed: /usr/local/lib/libxcb-xlib.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-xlib.la' is not a valid libtool archive *** Error code 1 I tried a search myself: ng. I tried to find a config switch for libxcb: ng. Let me know what else you need or what I can do to help here. Obviously other ports are dependent on these and are therefore failing as well. FWIW this is an upgrade using portupgrade. This is fallout from the libxcb update. xcb-xlib no longer exists, you need to update everything that depends on libxcb using your preferred method. I'd also like to point out that I just rebooted and X died in the hole... :) Missing rgb files and what not ___ 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
Adding partitions to gmirror device
Hi! I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE on a couple of Sun X2100 servers, each with 2X 250GB SATA drives that I've established a gmirror(8) over, following the instructions in section 19.4 of the Handbook. Now, one of the machines, being transformed into a webserver, needs a separate, newly created /var/www partition (its current partitions only take up 27G of the total ~238G available). My dilemma is -- how do I add another partition without hosing the system? It seems to me that there is no other way than to destroy the gmirror, create the new partition, then re-create the gmirror. The issue is how to proceed in a safe manner, without destroying any data or causing undue hassle (time is of the essence, as always). My draft plan is as follows, with ad4 and ad6 being the component drives: $ sudo gmirror deactivate gm0 /dev/ad6 $ sudo gmirror deactivate gm0 /dev/ad4 $ sudo gmirror remove gm0 /dev/ad6 $ sudo gmirror remove gm0 /dev/ad4 I believe this would result in all metadata associated with the gmirror to be wiped, and hence the gmirror to be destroyed, based on my potentially faulty reading of the manpage. Then edit fstab to restore the ``/dev/mirror/gm0s1?'' entries to their corresponding ``/dev/ad4s1?'' entries reboot. Afterwards, would run ``bsdlabel -e ad4'', then newfs, and finally, redo the gmirror sequence (following the steps in section 19.4 of the handbook, as before). Am I missing any critical steps here, or have any redundant steps? Or just not getting it? Thank you for any pointers! Vlad P.S. Is it possible to operate directly on the gm0 device, i.e., to create a partition using it rather than destroying the entire gmirror? -- Vladislav Sekulic Research Computing System Administrator Systems and Networks Research Group Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~pocsys ___ 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: swap_pager complaints but not using swap
In message 200901252247.29775.fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net, Mel writes: On Sunday 25 January 2009 04:28:47 Dieter wrote: AMD64 FreeBSD 7.0 2 GiB main memory So the machine doesn't normally use swap much at all, but messing with the large ISO apparently kicked something out of memory, and the disk with the swap partition was already busy writing at the other end of the disk. Do you consider writing a large file to disk a truly unspeakable load? Just curious, since you're running 7.0: SCHED_4BSD or SCHED_ULE? And if you have a chance to change it, does the scenario persist? kern.sched.name: 4BSD Right now I'm trying to collect enough info to fix the Seagate 2700.11 firmware fubar. Once that is resolved, I plan to update to 7.1. IIRC 7.1 defaults to ULE. If not I can try switching. But my understanding is that the scheduler pays little if any attention to I/O, a holdover from the days when CPU was the main thing that needed rationing. These days it is just the opposite. CPUs have gotten much much faster, but I/O is only slightly faster. ___ 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
Nvidia, GDM, Xorg 7.4
Surprised I don't see more postings, find it hard to believe I'm the only one unable to resolve this issue... Still can't get GDM working (gnome). Machine boots and drops back to console. Have tried playing with every setting in xorg.conf I can think of, have even tried nuking it completely. System will not boot to GUI. I can type startx and X... just fine... screen shows up, everything working (mouse/kb, etc). If I do GDM restart/stop, etc... nothing. I have no idea what the error is in Xorg.0.log that's causing an issue... I doesn't seem to me that there is a serious error. I have tried with x11/nvidia-driver, with driver off nvidia site, with nv, and with vesa. I can't get anything to work. Even more odd, is if I do a X -configure, my xorg.conf file has 32 of everything... 32 monitors, 32 drivers, 32 etc... and it will still not boot FreeBSD 7.1, Xorg 7.4, i386, intel cpu, system running fine before xorg 7.4, hald running, rc.conf should be fine, nvidia driver was working fine with compiz, etc. Have gone through all the steps in UPDATING, have even tried -ignoreABI... nothing working. I should at the very least be able to get Vesa or NV to work shouldn't I? Ports are all up to date with portmanager -u Have tried reinstall everything to do with xorg, etc (let machine run all night rebuilding everything). As I said before, don't care about 3d right now, would just like to see good old gnome once again. ... help :) Sorry for the log... didn't want to leave anything out in case I'm overlooking something. X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE i386 Current Operating System: FreeBSD nehe 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #13: Sun Jan 25 07:41:34 MST 2009 je...@nehe:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NeHe i386 Build Date: 26 January 2009 05:46:26PM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Mon Jan 26 20:24:19 2009 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) ServerLayout X.org Configured (**) |--Screen Screen0 (0) (**) | |--Monitor Monitor0 (**) | |--Device Card0 (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard0 (==) Automatically adding devices (==) Automatically enabling devices (==) Including the default font path /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF,/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/. (**) FontPath set to: /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ (**) ModulePath set to /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd' or 'mouse' will be disabled. (WW) Disabling Mouse0 (WW) Disabling Keyboard0 (II) Loader magic: 0x81b3460 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 X.Org Video Driver: 4.1 X.Org XInput driver : 2.1 X.Org Server Extension : 1.1 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.6 (II) Loader running on freebsd (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0) (--) using VT number 9 (--) PCI:*(0...@1:0:0) nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTS] rev 0, Mem @ 0xcc00/0, 0xb000/0, 0xca00/0, I/O @ 0x9c00/0, BIOS @ 0x/65536 (II) System resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0x0010 - 0x3fff (0x3ff0) MX[B]E(B) [1] -1 0 0x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c - 0x000e (0x3) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x - 0x0009 (0xa) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x - 0x00ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) extmod will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) dbe will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) glx will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) freetype will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) dri will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) LoadModule: glx (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=X.Org Foundation
Re: Nvidia, GDM, Xorg 7.4
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/131016 -- Glen Barber ___ 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: KDE: What a monster!
On Monday 26 January 2009 17:02:05 n j wrote: Linus Torvalds on KDE4... [quote] A: I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do. But the whole break everything model is painful for users and they can choose to use something else. I realise the reason for the 4.0 release, but I think they did it badly. They did so many changes it was a half-baked release. It may turn out to be the right decision in the end and I will re-try KDE, but I suspect I'm not the only person they lost. I've seen it suggested that KDE4 is faster than KDE3. I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 - granted, my machine is not brand-new: it's a P4 1.8GHz with 512MB of RAM and an NVidia GeForce MX4000 (I mention the graphics card because the latest NVidia binary driver doesn't support it). KDE3.5 does what I want my window manager to do - keeps out of my way and works snappily enough that I don't notice it. I recently installed PCBSD7.02, which uses KDE4.1. It's unusable. For example, with only two applications running - the KBreakout game and the Psi Jabber/XMPP client - the game was unplayable because each time Psi received an incoming chat or event, the game froze for a second or two while KDE struggled to open the chat window. The claim that KDE4 is faster than KDE3 is frankly incredible to me. Jonathan ___ 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: /rescue is huge!!
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2004-07/0442.html This is what's happening to me: == In the last episode (Jul 06), Richard Bradley said: On Tuesday 06 July 2004 2:36 am, you wrote: In the last episode (Jul 06), Richard Bradley said: I recently tried to add a user to my FreeBSD box, but was amazed to find that the / partition was full! I had a look, and the culprit is the /rescue folder, holding 135 statically linked binaries of nearly 4Mb each, giving a folder size of 491Mb! Check the inode number of each file in /rescue (ls -li /rescue). You'll notice they're all the same, which means they're all hardlinks to the same file. du /rescue should report under 4MB. Your space is probably being taken up somewhere else. That's very strange if true, because since deleting the /rescue folder, the used space on / has gone from 550Mb+ to 129Mb. I can't check the inodes now, as I have `rm`ed them all! If at some point you had copied /rescue with cp (instead of a tar pipe or something else that preserves hardlinks), you would have gotten a separate file for each link. == my ls looks like this: ls -li /rescue total 427594 26 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 [ 64 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 atacontrol 65 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 atm 66 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 atmconfig 67 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 badsect 68 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 bsdlabel 69 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 bunzip2 70 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 bzcat 71 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 bzip2 72 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 camcontrol 73 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3324376 Jan 12 2007 cat ... how do I reduce the size of the rescue directory? Or, as a last resort, can I safely move it under /usr (which is in a different partition)? Daniel ___ 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: Nvidia, GDM, Xorg 7.4
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 01:23 -0500, Glen Barber wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/131016 According to the latest UPDATING (thanks for the reminder Robert) this shouldn't be a problem anymore. Not that I should talk- my X hasn't started since I ran portupgrade -a last :D hopefully the portupgrade -a -rf I'm running currently will have success for me. Read that and try some of the tips there- in particular have you got any errors on the RGBPath? ___ 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: KDE: What a monster!
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 08:31 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 26 January 2009 17:02:05 n j wrote: Linus Torvalds on KDE4... [quote] A: I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do. But the whole break everything model is painful for users and they can choose to use something else. I realise the reason for the 4.0 release, but I think they did it badly. They did so many changes it was a half-baked release. It may turn out to be the right decision in the end and I will re-try KDE, but I suspect I'm not the only person they lost. I've seen it suggested that KDE4 is faster than KDE3. I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 - granted, my machine is not brand-new: it's a P4 1.8GHz with 512MB of RAM and an NVidia GeForce MX4000 (I mention the graphics card because the latest NVidia binary driver doesn't support it). KDE3.5 does what I want my window manager to do - keeps out of my way and works snappily enough that I don't notice it. I recently installed PCBSD7.02, which uses KDE4.1. It's unusable. For example, with only two applications running - the KBreakout game and the Psi Jabber/XMPP client - the game was unplayable because each time Psi received an incoming chat or event, the game froze for a second or two while KDE struggled to open the chat window. The claim that KDE4 is faster than KDE3 is frankly incredible to me. Wouldn't that be dependent on the Xorg server version and setup? It may be that some extra features of the video you're using need to be enabled. That said I'm not very impressed either (speed, features, etc). It looks to me like they've gone to compete with Vista and have succeeded there, but I find some of the little extras and the core of it seem unfinished somehow. The concept is good (in that it could compete with Vista), but to be completely successful in that venture even the aesthetics need to be tidied up. I'm also ashamed that they released it in a hurry to compete in this condition to a very sceptical Window$ crowd. If they had of waited and finished it properly even if it didn't reach the masses before Vista they may have pulled more disgruntled users from the M$ addiction. Now most are under the impression that nothing is any better than the crap they have now so they may as well stick with it... ___ 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: can i split a pdf file?
Message: 2 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500 From: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file? To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: 497d0ff3.6090...@telenix.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie Kester wrote: On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? pdfsam ( http://www.pdfsam.org/ ) does both splits and merges of pdf files, but it doesn't seem to be in the FreeBSD ports system. There is a pdfmerge in /usr/ports/print, but no pdfsplit. It's a very junky way to do it (but the only way I know), use pdf2ps to convert the pdf to postscript, then you stand at least a good chance of doing the split, which many utilities allow. You could even do it graphically via gv. The problem with this (and the reason it might well fail anyhow) is because some things that pdfs do aren't implemented in any standard postscript level I ever heard of. It depends how many of the more recent extensions to pdf are being used. I've done this, *sometimes*. Because the pdf spec is fully published, it might one day allow someone to write a splitter, but because the spec is SO enormous, maybe they won't, either. Actually, that's a really good notion ... I need to give it some thought. It's not quite the same thing, but pdfnup from the /usr/ports/print/pdfjam package allows page selections from the contributing pdfs. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic/firth/software/pdfjam Andrew -- Charlie ___ 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 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl9D/MACgkQz62J6PPcoOnxIQCgg+Suf4NpK8TXTNbYZIW0BCrR fKYAn3ljinZw9s1fPG39IMpblVNg0H+N =mGhJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and StatisticsTel: +61-3-8344-6410 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/ ___ 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: can i split a pdf file?
On Monday 26 January 2009 09:17:05 Andrew Robinson wrote: Message: 2 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500 From: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file? To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: 497d0ff3.6090...@telenix.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie Kester wrote: On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? [various suggestions including pdfmerge and psnup from ports] Alternatively, if you have a reasonably complete TeX installation (I'm still using teTeX), check whether you have texexec installed - which can extract pages from PDFs. Jonathan ___ 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
