Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-02 Thread Da Rock
On 12/03/10 14:38, Charlie Kester wrote: My old HP Laserjet 4+ is broken and I'm thinking about buying a new printer. I'd appreciate hearing recommendations from the list. My requirements: - Compatible with FreeBSD (obviously) - Laserjet preferred. Black White only. I don't need to print

Re: Web mail for not local domains.

2010-11-28 Thread Da Rock
On 11/29/10 03:36, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I was wondering if you can suggest the best application you consider for the following. I am supporting a non profit organization, so the budget is less than zero. They already have a freebsd server (8.1) and are using sendmail for about 20

Re: pwlib broken again

2010-11-25 Thread Da Rock
On 11/26/10 04:17, Marco Beishuizen wrote: After trying to upgrade my ports, pwlib seems broken again: ... ../../ptclib/pssl.cxx: In constructor 'PSSLContext::PSSLContext(const void*, PINDEX)': ../../ptclib/pssl.cxx:917: error: invalid conversion from 'const SSL_METHOD*' to 'SSL_METHOD*'

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-22 Thread Da Rock
use that perspective in my marketing. I like that one :) On Saturday 20 November 2010 09:00:04 Da Rock wrote: On 11/14/10 05:22, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:36:29PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:08:51PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-20 Thread Da Rock
On 11/14/10 05:22, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:36:29PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:08:51PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play

Fwd: ORBit not upgrading

2010-11-20 Thread Da Rock
Ok. So this is not just an upgrade issue, I can't build it on a fresh install on another m/c either. Any fixes/workarounds? Is anyone aware of this issue? I'm afraid I'm not experienced enough to work this out- unless someone can explain what the check is? Cheers Original Message

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-19 Thread Da Rock
On 11/13/10 16:08, Chris Brennan wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Cranbr...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 Chris Brennanxa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 19:44 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap)

Re: Rosegarden seg faults

2010-04-30 Thread Da Rock
Still heard no word now, and I've tried the ports list several days ago now. Can anyone tell me what the next step in this process is? Do I contact the maintainer directly? On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 17:25 +1000, Da Rock wrote: I've installed rosegarden for a task my missus has to do. The only

Re: Driver for Belkin F5D9050 V 4000

2010-04-28 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 06:44 -0400, Carmel wrote: I am trying to get a Belkin Wireless G Plus MIMI USB Network Adapter, version 4000 to work. I contacted Belkin, and they gave me the following information: The chipset used in a adapter F5D9050 V 4000 is Ralink RT2671F, RT2528L (RT73). I

Re: Driver for Belkin F5D9050 V 4000

2010-04-28 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 16:51 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:02:46 +1000 Da freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au articulated: On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 06:44 -0400, Carmel wrote: I am trying to get a Belkin Wireless G Plus MIMI USB Network Adapter, version 4000 to work. I

Rosegarden seg faults

2010-04-26 Thread Da Rock
I've installed rosegarden for a task my missus has to do. The only problem is its seg faults and can't do anything. I can run rosegarden at the prompt, but when I click notation or sequencer it fails with a seg fault. The symptoms are the same as bug #346448 at the debian bugs site, but that is

Re: lighten kernel

2010-04-26 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 07:09 +0200, xyz wrote: Those numbers mean the size in mo, of linux kernel (3.2mo), and freebsd kernel (33,9mo) for the same hardware configuration. Linux is based more on a minimalist kernel with user mode modules - add the modules and you'll find its larger, or take

FreeOrion won't run

2010-04-26 Thread Da Rock
While I am able to send to the list I might as well make use of it :) I've been trying out some games for my kids to play, and I believe I've heard of FreeOrion (or similar) before. Trouble is it won't work for the life of me... When I first ran it I got this message: Failed to initialize GEM.

lilypond won't build

2010-04-26 Thread Da Rock
Again, while I have the ability to send... :) I've just tried building lilypond for a project I'm working on, and I've hit a snag. Normally I can determine what the issue is, but this one has me stumped a bit - I think. This is the output - at least this is where I believe it starts:

Re: FreeOrion won't run

2010-04-26 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 01:33 +0300, Ivan Klymenko wrote: В Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:01:54 +1000 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au пишет: While I am able to send to the list I might as well make use of it :) I've been trying out some games for my kids to play, and I believe

Re: Question. Multi Boot

2010-04-25 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 11:10 -0500, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I have read archives and do gogled searches but would like , if possible, to hear comments based on experience. I have a machine, pentium D 2.4mhz 2gb RAM, 160DD HD XP Pro. As

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 21:02 +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: [...] I don't think we want to hijack this thread or this forum and turn it into a debate over which window managers and apps are best. As I pointed out in my followup to my original reply, there's already a voluminous discussion on

Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-05 Thread Da Rock
Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is absolutely hammering the swap. I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no money, so I need email, internet (with plugins), openoffice,

X fails to start

2009-07-02 Thread Da Rock
I'm still having intermittent troubles with getting the freebsd servers seeing my mail servers for my normal maillist subscription, so if I could be cc'd... I'm struggling to get my head around a reasonably severe problem with Xorg - I'm wondering if anyone else is having the same. I've

RE: X fails to start

2009-07-02 Thread Da Rock
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:16:49 +0200 Subject: Re: X fails to start From: one...@gmail.com To: rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On 7/2/09, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm still having intermittent troubles with getting the freebsd servers

RE: X fails to start

2009-07-02 Thread Da Rock
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:54:22 +0200 Subject: Re: X fails to start From: one...@gmail.com To: rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On 7/2/09, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:16:49 +0200 Subject: Re: X fails to start From

Xorg in a Jail... :)

2009-05-14 Thread Da Rock
Probably for the umpteenth time this subject line has shown up :) Why break convention? I'll start here as my audience might be greater: how is this made possible? I know Alexander Leidinger was working on something, but this isn't compiling on 7.1 atm (kern_jail.c: In function

RE: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-11 Thread Da Rock
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:42:31 +0700 From: o...@cs.ait.ac.th To: rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server Apr 11 16:26:40 hostname (internal) postfix/smtp[1325]: 488851744F:

RE: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-11 Thread Da Rock
From: keram...@ceid.upatras.gr To: rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:08:19 +0300 On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:31:22 +, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com wrote: I know this may

RE: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-10 Thread Da Rock
From: keram...@ceid.upatras.gr To: rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:08:19 +0300 On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:31:22 +, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com wrote: I know this may

OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-09 Thread Da Rock
I know this may be OT, but I could use some help on this one. I've completed a major changeover in network provider, and I've now got a proper static ip including ptr records for my mail server (the only service that really counts on this anyway). If I resolveip for my ip address it shows up my

Ports options not coming up

2009-04-02 Thread Da Rock
I'd to debug this, but I'm not even sure where to start. On just one system since some recent updates I have no options screens coming up for ports. I get a blue screen and then nothing; stdout says options unchanged. It is a vm if that means anything? Cheers

Re: Ports options not coming up

2009-04-02 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 14:15 +0200, rasz wrote: Da Rock wrote: I'd to debug this, but I'm not even sure where to start. On just one system since some recent updates I have no options screens coming up for ports. I get a blue screen and then nothing; stdout says options unchanged

qemu and kqemu - Version mismatch after upgrade

2009-04-01 Thread Da Rock
I just ran portsnap fetch update portupgrade -a and I've ended up with a complete disaster with qemu. Am I the only one? Firstly, I was under the impression that updates shouldn't (theoretically of course) upset a running server. I had 2 qemu vm's running which crashed during the process.

Re: qemu and kqemu - Version mismatch after upgrade

2009-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 00:04 -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I just ran portsnap fetch update portupgrade -a and I've ended up with a complete disaster with qemu. Am I the only one? Firstly, I was under

Re: qemu and kqemu - Version mismatch after upgrade

2009-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 14:28 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 00:04 -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I just ran portsnap fetch update portupgrade -a and I've ended up with a complete disaster with qemu

Re: qemu and kqemu - Version mismatch after upgrade

2009-04-01 Thread Da Rock
was to submit a PR, or notify po...@. After my last stupid mistake I'm not entirely as confident in my diagnoses :( --Original Message-- From: Da Rock To: Barber, Glen Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: qemu and kqemu - Version mismatch after upgrade Sent: Apr 2, 2009 1:00 AM

Re: ldap cn=config/slapd.d querying

2009-03-04 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 13:42 +1000, Da Rock wrote: This may be a stupid question, but I haven't been able to alight on the answer to this. I'm investigating using dynamic configuration (cn=config or slapd.d system- whichever term you like) for an ldap service, but as far as I could see

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-03-03 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 20:04 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: Sean Cavanaugh skrev: -- From: Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:26 AM To: Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions

Re: How to use portmanager/portmaster?

2009-03-03 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 23:33 +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote: Am Samstag 28 Februar 2009 22:39:26 schrieb Roland Smith: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote: Am Samstag 28 Februar 2009 21:42:35 schrieb Roland Smith: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:49:16PM +0100, Frank

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-03-03 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 22:37 -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote: That depends on where you are domiciled. Under certain scenarios, simply open the box, or installing the software constitutes acceptance of the EULA. Yes I'm aware of that, but that kind of agreement isn't valid in Sweden.

RE: Ports on Macbook

2009-03-03 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 12:52 +, Marc Coyles wrote: http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/macosx.html They can write whatever they want. I'm not binded by it. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single *Apple-labeled* computer at a time So, in

ldap cn=config/slapd.d querying

2009-02-25 Thread Da Rock
This may be a stupid question, but I haven't been able to alight on the answer to this. I'm investigating using dynamic configuration (cn=config or slapd.d system- whichever term you like) for an ldap service, but as far as I could see there is no way to change the setting on the fly through the

Re: Old user can't log in

2009-02-12 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:48 -0500, John Almberg wrote: On Feb 12, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 12, 2009, at 3:14 PM, John Almberg wrote: Just ran into a strange problem... I have a long-standing user account on my FreeBSD box that no longer works. She can't ssh into

Re: Old user can't log in

2009-02-12 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 20:37 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Da Rock wrote: I've been following this thread with interest: are you saying FreeBSD logins cannot handle more than 16 groups? If so, why? Is this mitigated by using other authentication methods (ie

Re: Old user can't log in

2009-02-12 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:52 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Da Rock wrote: With reasonable organization, and appropriate use of sudo or setgid binaries for things like people who use SVN or CVS, there generally isn't reason or need for a user to be in so many groups

Re: XDM login freezes on boot

2009-02-11 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 20:32 +1000, Warren Liddell wrote: AMD64 4gig RAM FreeBSD 7.1 KDE 4.2 I've noticed of late when i have had the misfortune of rebooting this machine due to severre storms and blackouts, when it boots everything loads fine, xdm initates an i get the standard logon

Re: Bridge setup at boot

2009-02-11 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 14:34 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 23:10 -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: Da Rock wrote: I feel like a real newbie asking this one, but the answer is still eluding me :( I have a system where I'm separating my servers for distinction so I'm

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-11 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 11:22 -0500, Keith Palmer wrote: OK, I'm sure this question has been asked a million times, but I havn't been able to find a straight answer that actually solves the problem, so here goes. We have a FreeBSD server with multiple users. I would rather each user *not* be

Re: Bridge setup at boot

2009-02-11 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 08:36 -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: Da Rock wrote: I had similar issues a while back (pre 7.1) in which sometimes 're' devices didn't start up at the proper speed/duplex. Every once in a while, it would show up at 10 or 100 half, when it should have been auto set

Bridge setup at boot

2009-02-10 Thread Da Rock
I feel like a real newbie asking this one, but the answer is still eluding me :( I have a system where I'm separating my servers for distinction so I'm running qemu. I have a bridge setup which works occasionally, but I need it to work 100% of the time. I also need this to run at boot time,

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 20:49 -0500, michael copeland wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: michael copeland wrote: on a side note, i can't believe this has kept going Either can I. It's a flame-war, and I became part of it (tsk). I just so

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 18:50 -0800, prad wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:31:42 -0800 Chris Knight boh...@gmail.com wrote: By sending an email to this list, your request was not only sent to thousands if individuals, but it was displayed on the pages of countless websites where the content

Re: Bridge setup at boot

2009-02-10 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 23:10 -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: Da Rock wrote: I feel like a real newbie asking this one, but the answer is still eluding me :( I have a system where I'm separating my servers for distinction so I'm running qemu. I have a bridge setup which works

Re: Flash9and FreeBSD7.0isssue

2009-02-06 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 07:50 -0600, ec...@casasponti.net wrote: Quoting Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au: On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 05:43 +, dhaneshk k wrote: Hi list, I followed http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html To enable flash9 support for FreeBSD7.0

Re: Flash9 and FreeBSD7.0 isssue

2009-02-06 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 05:43 +, dhaneshk k wrote: Hi list, I followed http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html To enable flash9 support for FreeBSD7.0 I installed FreeBSD7.0 with Linux compatibility so the first step (1.3 ) I skipped second step I

Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0

2009-02-05 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 08:53 +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote: I'm using the radeonhd driver and am getting the message also. Video card is the ati mobility radeon x1600. On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:48:40PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Da Rock writes: X is working fine here on a Radeon

xine-remote crashes xine

2009-02-05 Thread Da Rock
OK. Xine works (plays, etc), I can connect with xine-remote (from another m/c) and identify. However, if I send the 'mrl play content here' xine crashes and I get the following error: cannot read request from client (0/2112/Resource temporarily unavailable) could not handle external client

Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0

2009-02-04 Thread Da Rock
Ok, I give up... wtf am I missing here? As per the Xorg upgrade disaster discussion, I commented that this error IS causing issues; namely mplayer, file-roller. After that I read nothing in reply. I can now confirm this problem in several ways: 1) I just ran xine, mplayer, and file-roller and the

Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0

2009-02-04 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 18:56 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:10:30AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: Ok, I give up... wtf am I missing here? The Xext library has the extension, but the server hasn't yet. It should be harmless. I don't notice any problems with it. (7.1-RELEASE

Re: Graphics tablet / Xorg / mouse problems

2009-02-04 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 23:32 -0500, Antonio Rieser wrote: Hi, Whatever I did before, it had no effect. The temporary fix, for some reason, has been to deactivate kdm. Can anyone explain this? For starters hald should probably be disabled in rc.conf: hald_enable=NO. That said; how are you

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

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-30 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 08:40 -0500, Robert Noland wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 07:46 -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: ,--- You/Bruce (Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:06:45 +) * | One theory is that somehow the mouse driver ioctls which are passed | to ums, are somehow hosing USB, although why

Re: x11/libXrandr, x11-toolkits/libXmu, graphics/jasper fails to build

2009-01-28 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 10:40 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au writes: On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 12:47 -0200, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Em Ter, 2009-01-27 às 09:27 -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng escreveu: Hi, have you solved the problem yet? I also have

Re: issues with X not loading

2009-01-28 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 14:29 -0700, Keith Seyffarth wrote: On freebsd 6.0, I started having issues with X on Friday, and by Sunday, clicking buttons on the XFCE toolbar or choosing menu items from the XFCE menu weren't working. Subsequent to this, X would just hang when I run startx. I think

Re: net/samba-libsmbclient fails build

2009-01-28 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 12:22 +1100, David N wrote: 2009/1/27 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au: I get the following error in this build (make, make install clean): In file included from libsmb/libsmbclient.c:25: include/includes.h:1112: error: conflicting types

Re: Problems with Xorg update

2009-01-28 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:45 -0800, Arthur Barlow wrote: Two days ago I checked to see what source code was out of date and I noticed that many xf86 and various xorg drivers were. Because the number was significant I used the portupgrade -a command to make sure all the dependencies were

Re: net/samba-libsmbclient fails build

2009-01-28 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 12:27 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 12:22 +1100, David N wrote: 2009/1/27 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au: I get the following error in this build (make, make install clean): In file included from libsmb/libsmbclient.c:25: include/includes.h

Re: x11/libXrandr, x11-toolkits/libXmu, graphics/jasper fails to build

2009-01-27 Thread Da Rock
at 10:56 PM, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: 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

Re: x11/libXrandr, x11-toolkits/libXmu, graphics/jasper fails to build

2009-01-27 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 12:47 -0200, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Em Ter, 2009-01-27 às 09:27 -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng escreveu: Hi, have you solved the problem yet? I also have libXmu failed to upgrade due to libxcb-xlib.la. Thanks!! I removed every instance of libxb-xlib.la from

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 16:04 +, RW wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:56:15 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I'm also ashamed that they released it in a hurry to compete in this condition to a very sceptical Window$ crowd. People have to use KDE4 in significant

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 17:52 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: had either followed the Debian approach of keeping KDE3 as the default, or the FreeBSD approach of leaving it up to the user there wouldn't have been such a problem. One of the worst aspect of OSS is the pervasive attitude that

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 03:57 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:36:22 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: programming environment? what do you mean? Some heler application for integration and managing source files, such as KDevelop, Eclipse or

Re: Updates / Upgrades

2009-01-26 Thread Da Rock
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

Re: Solaris Compat?

2009-01-26 Thread Da Rock
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

Re: Solaris Compat?

2009-01-26 Thread Da Rock
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

Re: x11/libXrandr, x11-toolkits/libXmu, graphics/jasper fails to build

2009-01-26 Thread Da Rock
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

Re: x11/libXrandr, x11-toolkits/libXmu, graphics/jasper fails to build

2009-01-26 Thread Da Rock
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

Re: Nvidia, GDM, Xorg 7.4

2009-01-26 Thread Da Rock
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

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-26 Thread Da Rock
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

Re: Why are the Zionist leaders in Israel so happy about the new President?

2009-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 18:57 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Why is the President of Israel, the terrorist who just oversaw the Zionist mass murder and maiming of thousands of Palestinians so happy that Obama is President of the USA? by David Duke because he use FreeBSD? ROFL

Solaris Compat?

2009-01-25 Thread Da Rock
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

Kino port fails to build on amd64

2009-01-25 Thread Da Rock
This may turn out to be a PR, but I'll check here quickly first and if I have no success I'll send to the -po...@. I tried installing kino from ports on an amd64 system but got the following errors after a few hours of building: In file included from h264.h:32, from h264.c:31:

Re: Registry corrupt?

2009-01-23 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 17:02 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: it's not windows. there are fortunately no registry in unix. your problem explanation is too short to help you. describe something more. and what you mean rehash? Rehashing forces the shell to reinitialise (for want of a better

Re: Motherboard support

2009-01-21 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:58 +, Graeme Dargie wrote: Hello, I have built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2, running Freebsd 7.1. For the most part it is fine but I do have two problems 1) The NIC a realtek 8111C keeps giving watchdog timeout messages and the link

Re: Intel 5100 AGN WiFi

2009-01-21 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 10:48 +0200, Ghirai wrote: Hello, After a quick search it appears that Intel 5100 AGN wifi card is not supported (at least not in RELEASE?). If so, are there plans, dev. in progress, etc? Thanks. AFAIK this uses the iwn driver which a group of us is now working

RE: Motherboard support

2009-01-21 Thread Da Rock
luck! Regards Graeme -Original Message- From: Da Rock [mailto:rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au] Sent: 21 January 2009 10:36 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard support On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:58 +, Graeme Dargie wrote: Hello, I have

Re: iwn driver on 7.1

2009-01-18 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 14:17 -0600, Brandon Gooch wrote: I have a working driver for the Intel 4965, aka iwn(4), loaded on my Lenovo X300 running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE (amd64). This driver is a slightly-modified version of the iwn(4) driver backported from 8.0-CURRENT by Gavin Atkinson:

Re: iwn driver on 7.1

2009-01-18 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 14:17 -0600, Brandon Gooch wrote: I have a working driver for the Intel 4965, aka iwn(4), loaded on my Lenovo X300 running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE (amd64). This driver is a slightly-modified version of the iwn(4) driver backported from 8.0-CURRENT by Gavin Atkinson:

age driver cannot handle af18

2009-01-18 Thread Da Rock
Just testing the age driver on 7.1-RELEASE and got this error. Can anyone tell me why this might be happening before I go delving into the src? If I ping I get sendto: Address family not supported by protocol family. Surprisingly, this driver is now working- despite the fact that it ws having

Re: About FreeBSD hardware compatibility?

2009-01-18 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 23:53 -0700, Tim Judd wrote: aaron lewis wrote: Hi, I'm a freebsd lovers , i wonna install fbsd7.1 to my laptop (IBM Thinkpad R400 a18). There's no available informations on laptop compatibility lists. So do you have any solutions to make a quick check if

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 21:44 -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? I don't know. It's been $years since I've had to use a Windows install CD for such a thing. If it's win32, my experience would have me recommend

Re: Sun sucks

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 03:47 +, RW wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:10:10 -0500 Ansar Mohammed ans...@gmail.com wrote: After registering Sun complains that they don't like my ID and I need to provide more information. I create another account. Same problem. After 3 months I finally get

est1 device_attach error 6

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
Similar to the age0 problem in my previous post the enhanced speed step on this laptop on the second core of the cpu has the same problem- athough this doesn't appear to be power related (ac or battery that is). Where does this place the issue- acpi?

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind

iwn driver on 7.1

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
I've tried the driver on 7.0- 8.0 current is out of the question as it still doesn't fully function either- but I'm trying to sort out 7.1 (might as well, I have many other issues to work out so I might as well fix them on this :) ). The driver patches compiles (iwn-7 from gavin), but when I load

Re: programs...

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
What about Miro? On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 23:19 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:43:09AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:03:29PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've going to give away what I think could be at least a multi-thousand

USB problem during install

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
I was just running a check to see if I could install FreeBSD on my tv server and check the driver situation, but the cdboot failed with a usb issue- address not found. This occurred for 7.1, 7.0, and even 6.4. In my search I found many different reasons why it could be, but they were several years

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 18:07 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:08:16PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I'm afraid it's gone from bad to worse. The 7.1 system may have recognised the ethernet adapter, but it seemed to fail writing to the hard drive. I got

age0 driver power issues - device_attach error 6

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
I'm getting issues similar to what others have seen in the pre-release 7.1. I'm using the release version because it supposedly has this driver, but the issue is when I'm on battery it'll work and load the driver, on ac forget it. Its on a laptop with an iwn device so I'm in for real hell - but

Re: FreeBSD USB Install

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:11 -0200, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Hello I notice that when you write zeros to the first sectors of the pen drive it gets mad about it and you must make fsck and disklabel TWICE... the first time, it complains, the second time it works fine I assume you

Re: age0 driver power issues - device_attach error 6

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 17:19 +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 1/16/09, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I'm getting issues similar to what others have seen in the pre-release 7.1. I'm using the release version because it supposedly has this driver, but the issue is when I'm

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 18:05 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get

Freebsd standards compliance

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
I'm just in the middle of researching the core of Freebsd (for want of a better term) so I can understand how to fix and create software and drivers. Can people clarify my understanding here? According to wikipedia Freebsd is only mostly compliant with POSIX, yet BSD/OS is fully- why would this

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