Screen problem on booting

2009-02-02 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi all, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all the text I see is shifted to the left, so I lose the first ten letters or so in every line of text. After login, once I type startx the X Window system seems to be OK _and_ if I go back to a

Re: xorg 7.4 keyboard localisation (xorg.conf vs hal)

2009-02-02 Thread Sebastien Chassot
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 14:10 -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote: This seems to have a way to enable HAL to detect a keyboard and export it to X, but what about mice? My Xorg log tells me that it is ignoring my USB mouse in addition to ignoring my keyboard, so what sort of HAL file do I add to enable

no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots

2009-02-02 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I'm alone in my flat and have no cats :-) Last night I powered down my laptop (with the power-off button), the system went down, but later re-booted by its own: Feb 1 23:04:08 rebelion ipmon[839]: 23:04:08.145552 6x iwi0 @0:26 b 127.0.0.1,0 - 0.0.0.0,0 PR tcp len 20 40 -AR OUT Feb 1

apt of freebsd

2009-02-02 Thread Alexander Wolf
I'm find into /usr/ports/sysutils/apt porting from Debian APT. How to using this on FreeBSD? -- With best regards, Alexander Wolf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: intel 64-bit version?

2009-02-02 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:24:35 -0800 (PST) gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: What is the image for intel 64-bit version of freebsd? i have xeon machine and would like to install freebsd on it. You can use 7.1-RELEASE-i386 (32bit) or 7.1-RELEASE-amd64 (64bit) depending on whether or not you are going

Re: intel 64-bit version?

2009-02-02 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:57:12 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: It is a little more complicated... i386 also supports 4GB with the PAE I know. kernel option... it is frequently better to use this then to use amd64 because (a decreasing I hope) number of ports do not

Re: intel 64-bit version?

2009-02-02 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
It is a little more complicated... i386 also supports 4GB with the PAE kernel option... it is frequently better to use this then to use amd64 because (a decreasing I hope) number of ports do not compile and/or work properly on amd64... for example if your using the machine as a GUI desktop

Re: intel 64-bit version?

2009-02-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: It is a little more complicated... i386 also supports 4GB with the PAE kernel option... it is frequently better to use this then to use amd64 because (a decreasing I hope) number of ports do not compile and/or work properly on amd64... for example if your using the machine

Re: intel 64-bit version?

2009-02-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What is the image for intel 64-bit version of freebsd? i have xeon machine and would like to install freebsd on it. it's FreeBSD/amd64, as 64-bit intel is compatible with amd64 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: X.org-update - screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?

2009-02-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:30:02AM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: Me too. I started a thread a few days ago titled Restarting new Xorg freezes system. My symptoms are the same as yours. I'm not running hald at all. I'm not using full-blown gnome, just windowmaker. I'm using the radeon driver on

X, dbus and hal - how to?

2009-02-02 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm running X remotely, i.e. xorg-server and clients are on different boxes. After reading freebsd.org/gnome FAQs and hal FAQs my impression is that dbus and hal must be run on the clients box, not on the server. Can somebody confirm this? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6,

Re: ls -lh show file not displaying correct size

2009-02-02 Thread Wayne
Thanks for the answer so now for the next question. How do I sync this file to other FreeBSD servers. I tried using rsync with the --spares but the size on the other server was on it's way to being the 256G size and fill up the other server. How would I go about making an exact duplicate. Wayne

short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread William Bulley
Recently purchased a brand new 2.0 GB secure digital (SD) card. When I plugged this into a USB dongle and plugged the USB dongle into an available USB socket on my FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE system the output from dmesg(8) reported this: da1: 960MB (1967616 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 960C) This is

Re: X, dbus and hal - how to?

2009-02-02 Thread Daniel Lannstrom
After reading freebsd.org/gnome FAQs and hal FAQs my impression is that dbus and hal must be run on the clients box, not on the server. Can somebody confirm this? AFAIK that is correct. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread Mel
On Monday 02 February 2009 07:52:44 William Bulley wrote: Recently purchased a brand new 2.0 GB secure digital (SD) card. When I plugged this into a USB dongle and plugged the USB dongle into an available USB socket on my FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE system the output from dmesg(8) reported this:

Re: no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots

2009-02-02 Thread Mel
On Sunday 01 February 2009 23:57:40 Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I'm alone in my flat and have no cats :-) Last night I powered down my laptop (with the power-off button), the system went down, but later re-booted by its own: Feb 1 23:04:08 rebelion ipmon[839]: 23:04:08.145552 6x iwi0

Re: Error compiling Imagmagick

2009-02-02 Thread Mel
On Sunday 01 February 2009 21:55:53 Warren Liddell wrote: Im running AMD64 4gig RAM FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE, ports an src are all up to date... Below is the error output trying to compile imagmagick as part of the dependency whilst installing DVDrip run make config in graphics/ImageMagick and

Re: X.org-update - screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?

2009-02-02 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:30:02AM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: Me too. I started a thread a few days ago titled Restarting new Xorg freezes system. My symptoms are the same as yours. I'm not running hald at all. I'm not using

Re: Load balancing multiple virtual hosts on 1 IP

2009-02-02 Thread Mel
On Sunday 01 February 2009 19:33:38 Marc G. Fournier wrote: Thank you for all the responses ... turns out the solution was simplier ... I tried the various solutions presented, and each of them did the same thing ... The setup I have, I'm using csync2 to maintain the file systems on each

Re: no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots

2009-02-02 Thread Mel
On Monday 02 February 2009 09:04:59 Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Monday, February 02, 2009 a las 08:56:39AM -0900, Mel escribió: On Sunday 01 February 2009 23:57:40 Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I'm alone in my flat and have no cats :-) Last night I powered down my laptop (with the

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 12:56:19PM -0500, William Bulley wrote: According to Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net on Mon, 02/02/09 at 12:46: On Monday 02 February 2009 07:52:44 William Bulley wrote: Recently purchased a brand new 2.0 GB secure digital (SD) card. When I plugged

Re: apt of freebsd

2009-02-02 Thread prad
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:23:50 +0100 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: It's probably used for the Linux emulation in FreeBSD, you can't use it with FreeBSD native packages. so what does this mean? if you have linux emulation, you can install .debs from the debian repository? -- In

Re: ls -lh show file not displaying correct size

2009-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 02), Wayne said: Thanks for the answer so now for the next question. How do I sync this file to other FreeBSD servers. I tried using rsync with the --spares but the size on the other server was on it's way to being the 256G size and fill up the other server. How would

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread William Bulley
According to Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu on Mon, 02/02/09 at 14:12: I am a little lost here and haven't tried a lot on USB devices yet - though I haven't had these kind of problems. But, after doing the fdisk stuff and before trying to mount, did you do a newfs? Another thing

lpt0 device busy

2009-02-02 Thread Beech Rintoul
Just recently I've started having a problem with my HP 5N it was printing fine. Now, whatever I do lpt0 shows device busy. I've googled reinstalled apsfilter and put the printer through all the self tests (passed) and verified there's nothing in the printer's memory. I've rebuilt userland and

Re: no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots

2009-02-02 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, February 02, 2009 a las 08:56:39AM -0900, Mel escribió: On Sunday 01 February 2009 23:57:40 Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I'm alone in my flat and have no cats :-) Last night I powered down my laptop (with the power-off button), the system went down, but later re-booted

Re: [6.3] ALT-CTRL-DEL = clean unmount?

2009-02-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I was wondering: When hitting the ALT-CTRL-DEL combination as an easy way to call reboot, does this unmount disks properly? it actually calls shutdown -r now I'm concerned because I did this recently, and here's what dmesg says: ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
da1: 960MB (1967616 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 960C) it's something wrong with FreeBSD here, it gets detected as 1GB. it has nothing to do with filesystem on it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread Brad Mettee
Grrr - I really don't like that this mailing list default Reply-To is the original author instead of the mailing list itself Snip from mis-directed e-mail Does an XP machine also detect it as 960MB? If not, can you put more than 960M on it and verify that it's all intact? Create a

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread William Bulley
According to Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net on Mon, 02/02/09 at 12:46: On Monday 02 February 2009 07:52:44 William Bulley wrote: Recently purchased a brand new 2.0 GB secure digital (SD) card. When I plugged this into a USB dongle and plugged the USB dongle into an available

Homeschool sebagai Gaya Hidup?

2009-02-02 Thread Malaysian Homeschool Family
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Patching / Updating / Upgrading

2009-02-02 Thread Akenner
Hello all, I've been using this list to my advantage for a while to learn things I can't seem to grasp, and I've gotten great amounts of help. I have a question in regards to the process of patching / Updating / Upgrading I'd like a hand with. I have two machines running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

Re: [6.3] ALT-CTRL-DEL = clean unmount?

2009-02-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Gilles wrote: Hello I was wondering: When hitting the ALT-CTRL-DEL combination as an easy way to call reboot, does this unmount disks properly? Yes. I'm concerned because I did this recently, and here's what dmesg says: ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable ad0:

Re: intel 64-bit version?

2009-02-02 Thread matt donovan
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:24 AM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: What is the image for intel 64-bit version of freebsd? i have xeon machine and would like to install freebsd on it. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Second hand video equipment for sale.

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Re: Homeschool sebagai Gaya Hidup?

2009-02-02 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Peter Ulrich Kruppa schrieb: Indeed FreeBSD as an Operating System, coming with a huge software collection, offers about everything you will need for home learning and teaching - and is completely free. Since there is a long tradition of Open Source Communities supporting educational

Re: Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS?

2009-02-02 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 10:34:46PM +0100, Klaus Friis Østergaard wrote: Thanks, but how do I reverse back to gdm 2.20? Is this possible with the portupgrade tools? You could use ports-mgmt/portdowngrade for this or you could download http://www.laverenz.de/gdm-2.20.tar.gz and extract in in the

intel 64-bit version?

2009-02-02 Thread gahn
Hi all: What is the image for intel 64-bit version of freebsd? i have xeon machine and would like to install freebsd on it. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Error compiling Imagmagick

2009-02-02 Thread Warren Liddell
run make config in graphics/ImageMagick and uncheck the Run bundled self-tests after build option. This will continue the install. You may want to provide the output of the failing test through send-pr, so that it can be investigated. I went around it by using pkg_add

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:27:20PM -0500, William Bulley wrote: According to Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu on Mon, 02/02/09 at 14:12: I am a little lost here and haven't tried a lot on USB devices yet - though I haven't had these kind of problems. But, after doing the fdisk stuff

error compiling kdebase 4.2 on AMD64

2009-02-02 Thread Warren Liddell
Im currently running AMD64 4gig FreebSD7.1-STABLE .. below is the error msg when trying to compile the new KDE4.2 KDEBASE -- [ 0%] Building CXX object apps/lib/konq/CMakeFiles/konq.dir/konq_popupmenuinformation.o cd

Re: Screen problem on booting

2009-02-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all the text I see is shifted to the left, so I lose the first ten letters or so in every line of text. After login, once I type startx the X Window system seems to

Re: installworld fails - nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: too many levels of symbolic links

2009-02-02 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:00:58AM -0900, Mel wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2009 07:09:39 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm upgrading from 7.1-prerelease to 7.1-stable. I followed the manual. make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, reboot, make installworld fails with

Re: Patching / Updating / Upgrading

2009-02-02 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Akenner wrote: Hello all, I've been using this list to my advantage for a while to learn things I can't seem to grasp, and I've gotten great amounts of help. I have a question in regards to the process of patching / Updating / Upgrading I'd like a hand with. I have two machines running

Re: Error compiling Imagmagick

2009-02-02 Thread matt donovan
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: run make config in graphics/ImageMagick and uncheck the Run bundled self-tests after build option. This will continue the install. You may want to provide the output of the failing test through send-pr, so that it can

Re: freebsd and multicasting software

2009-02-02 Thread Tim Judd
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:46 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, all: Does anyone know multicasting packages (udp based) that I can test on the freebsd? I am using 6.3 and it comes with vlc-0.8.6i and doesn't support udp streaming. Any help would be greatly appreciated.. udpcast?

zfs root partition boot?

2009-02-02 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, Can I use zfs on / using FreeBSD 7.1? I also use http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ script to create mirror is there such a a tool for ZFS to use on Fbsd 7.1? Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: apt of freebsd

2009-02-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Alexander Wolf wrote: Ivan Voras пишет: It's probably used for the Linux emulation in FreeBSD, you can't use it with FreeBSD native packages. Hmm... I'm maybe can use it for web-applications? Or not? You cannot use it for FreeBSD packages at all. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: X.org-update - screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?

2009-02-02 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 03:31:28PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I've got hald running as per /etc/rc.conf with hald_enable=YES as well as moused (moused_enable=YES in rc.conf). what??? where's hald_enable=YES documented? There's nothing about this in X, dbus, or hald manual pages.

Re: zfs root partition boot?

2009-02-02 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Omer Faruk Sen omerf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can I use zfs on / using FreeBSD 7.1? I also use http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/http://people.freebsd.org/%7Erse/mirror/script to create mirror is there such a a tool for ZFS to use on Fbsd 7.1? Regards.

Re: problems building Parse::RecDescent

2009-02-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 09:20:54PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: I'm trying to build p5-Apache-MP3-4.00 from ports. I had it installed and working, but it recently stopped working so I'm rebuilding it. Unfortunately I'm having build problems. === Building for p5-Ogg-Vorbis-Header-0.03_1

Re: Excessive letter-spacing in firefox3 under wine

2009-02-02 Thread Tore Lund
Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thursday 29 January 2009 22:02:35 Tore Lund wrote: Subject line says it all - large gaps between all letters. Here is a screenshot: http://softblur.com/misc/spacing.jpg. I suppose there are others who run firefox3 under wine on 7.1-RELEASE with no problems, so can

[6.3] ALT-CTRL-DEL = clean unmount?

2009-02-02 Thread Gilles
Hello I was wondering: When hitting the ALT-CTRL-DEL combination as an easy way to call reboot, does this unmount disks properly? I'm concerned because I did this recently, and here's what dmesg says: ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable ad0: 19092MB Seagate ST320413A

Re: apt of freebsd

2009-02-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Alexander Wolf wrote: I'm find into /usr/ports/sysutils/apt porting from Debian APT. How to using this on FreeBSD? It's probably used for the Linux emulation in FreeBSD, you can't use it with FreeBSD native packages. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: da1: 960MB (1967616 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 960C) it's something wrong with FreeBSD here, it gets detected as 1GB. it has nothing to do with filesystem on it. Nobody's blamed the SD/CF reader. I

Re: intel 64-bit version?

2009-02-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Andreas Rudisch wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:24:35 -0800 (PST) gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: What is the image for intel 64-bit version of freebsd? i have xeon machine and would like to install freebsd on it. You can use 7.1-RELEASE-i386 (32bit) or 7.1-RELEASE-amd64 (64bit)

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, William Bulley wrote: Thanks. According to the newfs(8) man page it is used only for BSD style file systems (ufs and ufs2). newfs_msdos(8) I am okay with the FAT16 formatted SD card, I'm just upset that I paid for a 2.0 GB card and ended up with what seems to be a 1.0

Re: apt of freebsd

2009-02-02 Thread Alexander Wolf
Ivan Voras пишет: It's probably used for the Linux emulation in FreeBSD, you can't use it with FreeBSD native packages. Hmm... I'm maybe can use it for web-applications? Or not? -- With best regards, Alexander Wolf ___

Re: Graphics tablet / Xorg / mouse problems

2009-02-02 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Antonio Rieser wrote: Hi, I recently installed FreeBSD 7.1 on an ACER Aspire 1680 laptop. I'm running KDE 3.5 and the most recent Xorg port with a Wacom Bamboo tablet and the wacom driver from the ports collection. I have the following problems with the tablet and mouse: ... Just to keep

Good wireless cards for freebsd

2009-02-02 Thread Warren Liddell
Im looking to go wireless on my network an after some easy but good wireless NIC cards that freebsd has good support for. The network card im looking at is *P-Link Wireless N PCI Adapter, Atheros, 2T2R, 2.4GHz, 802.11n Draft 2.0, 802.11g/b *Thoughts and experiences welcomed.* *

Re: zfs root partition boot?

2009-02-02 Thread Daniel Lannstrom
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: Can I use zfs on / using FreeBSD 7.1? Yes. But you need a /boot partition so the bootloader can find the kernel. See http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot and http://www.ish.com.au/solutions/articles/freebsdzfs

Re: zfs root partition boot?

2009-02-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
FreeBSD decides to kill ZFS support, you'll be stuck with a unbootable disk. I'd stick with the more mature, tested methods like gmirror or gvinum. Nothing beats a hardware raid though. IMHO hardware RAID beats nothing. it's mostly crap. gmirror/gstripe/gconcat works well and always

Homeschool sebagai Gaya Hidup?

2009-02-02 Thread Malaysian Homeschool Family
Assalamualaikum, Sertai kami dalam playgroup Komuniti Malaysia Homeschool Unite, khas buat keluarga homeschool dan terbuka kepada keluarga yang berminat untuk menambah ilmu serta kenalan. Anda juga boleh berikan cadangan anda. - Jom klik di sini : http://www.forum.littlekittle.com Segmen

Re: zfs root partition boot?

2009-02-02 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: FreeBSD decides to kill ZFS support, you'll be stuck with a unbootable disk. I'd stick with the more mature, tested methods like gmirror or gvinum. Nothing beats a hardware raid though. IMHO hardware

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On February 2, 2009 06:13:16 pm Tim Judd wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: da1: 960MB (1967616 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 960C) it's something wrong with FreeBSD here, it gets detected as 1GB. it has nothing to do with

Re: Xorg upgrade disaster: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-02-02 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 21:49 +0100, Marcin Cieslak wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: After upgrading one of my FreeBSD 8.0-CUR/amd64 boxes to new xorg-7.4 and having done hurting recompiling nearly everything/package twice now firefox3 still doesn't work properly and hits me when starting with this

Build/install failure in textproc/docbook-sk: catalog parsing error

2009-02-02 Thread Jason Morgan
Greetings, I am having trouble installing xorg on a fairly clean machine. The problem stems from a failed build/install of textproc/docbook-sk, which seems to have been pulled in from HAL. Does someone know if this is a known issue, or if it's possibly some problem with my system specifically?

How to tell what $var assigned PORTVERSION equals.

2009-02-02 Thread Adam Vande More
How does one find out the PORTVERSION of a port when it's in a format like such: PORTVERSION=${KDE4_VERSION} All the docs/examples I can find easily show PORTVERSION assigned a number, not variable. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: How to tell what $var assigned PORTVERSION equals.

2009-02-02 Thread Eitan Adler
Adam Vande More wrote: How does one find out the PORTVERSION of a port when it's in a format like such: PORTVERSION=${KDE4_VERSION} cd /usr/ports grep -R KDE4_VERSION . ./Mk/bsd.kde4.mk:KDE4_VERSION= 4.1.4 All the docs/examples I can find easily show PORTVERSION assigned a

Re: How to tell what $var assigned PORTVERSION equals.

2009-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 03), Adam Vande More said: How does one find out the PORTVERSION of a port when it's in a format like such: PORTVERSION=${KDE4_VERSION} All the docs/examples I can find easily show PORTVERSION assigned a number, not variable. Running make -V PORTVERSION

getting oddball boundary quirk reading Samsung disk

2009-02-02 Thread Dieter
I'm attempting to dig my way out of the Seagate 7200.11 firmware disaster. Need a non-7200.11 place to store my data before messing with the drives. Trying a Samsung. disk: Samsung HD103UJ 1TB SATA controller: nforce4-ultra FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 Brand new disk. Running a few tests before entrusting

Re: no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots

2009-02-02 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, February 02, 2009 a las 09:34:38AM -0900, Mel escribió: but the other messages (you have cut out) says that it run through shutdown at 23:06:33 and later at 23:42:42 it did a normal re-boot while I was sleeping already; this does not make sense; don't you agree? Right,

Re: intel 64-bit version?

2009-02-02 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
You may use amd64 version for full support of the 64 functionalities. Do not get the wrong impression, this is not only for AMD processors and allow you to use the full strength of the 64 bit architecture. You may also use i386 branch and use PAE config options if you have more than 4 GB RAM.

Re: Screen problem on booting

2009-02-02 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On 2/2/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all the text I see is shifted to the left, so I lose the first ten letters or so in every line of