Re: port for separation audio from video in mp4 file

2009-06-08 Thread Polytropon
and -dumpaudio. As you know, mplayer / mencoder can do everything that you can imagine. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-08 Thread Polytropon
then), and make deinstall deletes stuff from the webserver. :-) -- 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

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Polytropon
. I'm very sure there is already a tool or a whole GUI subsystem that does indexing and taking care of arbitrary file collections, but of course I don't know its name because I never used it. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Polytropon
or projects. -- 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

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
. On a much lower level, PDF files that contain text could be decomposited into ASCII using pdftotext, making it easy for further indexing. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
could write a kind of pdfgrep tool that acts as a wrapper around pdftotext, grep, and your PDF file collection. In any case, it would surely help if your files have meaningful filenames, so they can easily be identified. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: Problem with burncd

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
of SCSI / CAM based tools. Is there a better CD-Burner program that I could use instead? There is. Install cdrecord and / or cdrdao for CDs, and growisofs for DVDs. Loat atapicam kernel module. Use it. Be happy. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
It's probably an issue with the PDF itself, not with the program. Check % file Sanda-JAMA-2009\ \(Prostate\ Cancer\ Treatment\).pdf Just to be sure it REALLY is a PDF file - and not a PPT with wrong name. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
the information above correctly, ^Z cannot be caught. (I'm always interested in statements that correct me if I'm wrong.) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
this information? -- 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

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
with signal(3) where the SIGTSTP signal is described as stop signal generated from keyboard That's highly interesting. Thanks for the pointer to termios man page. I'm always surprised how well intended things work in FreeBSD. =^_^= -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: FreeSBIE

2009-06-10 Thread Polytropon
83.149.156.188... ... long long time passes ... telnet: connect to address 83.149.156.188: Operation timed out telnet: Unable to connect to remote host And nothing more. Seems that the site (or their web server in particular) is down. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-10 Thread Polytropon
* for your particular hardware is needed in the kernel configuration file. I'm not sure if only device sound is sufficient and / or will load snd_* required automatically. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-11 Thread Polytropon
device sound device snd_hda in your kernel configuration file, the driver (a) should be compiled in and (b) loaded at startup. Of course, it won't show up in kldstat then, but % cat /dev/sndstat should indicate the running driver. -- Polytropon From

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-11 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:44:56 +0200, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Polytropon skrev: On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:48:32 +0200, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Yes. No go. I even tested to put snd_hda=YES in /etc/rc.conf Even tested kldload snd_hda=YES in rc.conf In 7.1

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-11 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:51:03 -0800, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:11:46 Polytropon wrote: Of course, it won't show up in kldstat then It will if you add -v to kldstat. Hmmm... true! % kldstat -v

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
be a reason for our strange observations. -- 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

Re: XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
xrandr --size 1400x1050 to override non-functioning X autodetect and non-working xorg.conf settings. Obviously I am doing something wrong here. Should I post this on the XFCE forum or does someone here have a solution. Do you have the same problems with other WM / DE? -- Polytropon From

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:43:46 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: why not: edit MYKERNEL config MYKERNEL cd ../compile/MYKERNEL make depend make make install ? Yes, why not? It still works. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
on FreeBSD which you'll find in the handbook, too. Of course you can use XFCE, Fluxbox, FVWM, WindowMaker, Metacity, Enlightenment or any other DE / WM you can think of. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
1400x1050 xrandr --size 1400x1050 exec startxfce4 (The last line is assumed; I have start wmaker there.) Make sure both files are +x. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
with xdm, and even without xdm, if you run startx from text mode. -- 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

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-13 Thread Polytropon
are not depending on another file, or have to read it through in order to form the intended nodevice and nooption statements. Anyway, you have to review the file with each system update, to find out if something important changed (e. g. the default scheduler, as you mentioned). -- Polytropon From

Re: vim question...

2009-06-15 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:22:48 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: PS: if gvim ever evolves into a word-processor, life will be *perfect* ;-) If you load a LaTeX file in gvim, it will get ahead of a word processor and evolve into a typesetting system. :-) -- Polytropon

Re: Automated Production of Web Pages

2009-06-18 Thread Polytropon
not following its philosophy? Keep the thing simple. Make one solution that solves the problem best, nothing more, nothing less. As you said, it may take some time to get it running, but when it runs, it will run nearly forever. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: Changing my login directory

2009-06-18 Thread Polytropon
, by the way. -- 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

Re: ftp user issues

2009-06-18 Thread Polytropon
information, and maybe tcpdump from that interface so see what's happening. -- 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

Re: Unable to auto-mount a CD in XFCE4

2009-06-18 Thread Polytropon
. -- 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

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Polytropon
kilobuck windose devs. Lightweight computer and KDE apps? You must be joking. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Polytropon
on the list have FreeBSD on Asus Eee net books and it is working well. is there a particular url[s], or should i just google? Thre's an excellent article: http://www.unixarea.de/installEeePC.txt Don't be scared because of .de - it's in English. :-) -- Polytropon From

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Polytropon
morning in Germany: % date Mon Jun 22 06:59:58 CEST 2009 I'm up since 2:00 in the morning (night). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:14:47 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: ok, sorry. Brain fault: Core dump :-) Core fault: brain dump. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-23 Thread Polytropon
drive, which slows them down manyfold Article: NILFS: A File System to Make SSDs Scream http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7345/1.html -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-23 Thread Polytropon
for portable devices, it should be better than tradidional hard disks, but as I read, it's worse (less efficient, because higher current drain). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: 7.2 system stuck trying at boot, trying to mount root device

2009-06-24 Thread Polytropon
. When it gets mounted, this label is being removed. You see this on your console. Anyone know how I can rescue this? Does /var/log/messages show something strange looking? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Versioning File System for FreeBSD?

2009-06-24 Thread Polytropon
, it's has, because VMS and its file system does still exist. -- 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

Re: Versioning File System for FreeBSD?

2009-06-24 Thread Polytropon
for such a file system would have to be implemented... -- 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

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Polytropon
with an oper- ator. Dial all the numbers altogether to talk to the fat guy with the big hard disk. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: mounting network NTFS drive on FreeBSD

2009-06-25 Thread Polytropon
[NTWS2KXX:Administrator] password= You can then simply issue # mount /smb/c You can check out manpages for: mount_smbfs fstab nsmb.conf Then, I'm sure, how you can add a directory name as you mentioned above (\backups). I think that's possible, too. -- Polytropon From

Re: mkisofs in FreeBSD

2009-06-25 Thread Polytropon
which it is intended for. Anyway, it does not belong to the base OS, so it needs to be installed by the port / package cdrtools. More information via man mkisofs is available then. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Polytropon
. :-) -- 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

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Polytropon
. :-) -- 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

Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi,

2009-06-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:33:56 +0800, Erich Dollansky er...@apsara.com.sg wrote: On 26 June 2009 am 10:02:30 Polytropon wrote: Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany big brother is watching me. Yes, Dr. Schäuble does so. :-) An xterm just came up with this message: The default editor

Re: Which latex should I install

2009-06-25 Thread Polytropon
imaginable. :-) -- 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

Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi,

2009-06-25 Thread Polytropon
files. I won't say anything different. For the usual maintenance and get the damn thing working again tasks the /rescue editor, especially vi, should be enough. Commands are i, a, and :wq. From my experience, I can't remember to have used anything else. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-26 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:40:50 +0800, Erich Dollansky er...@apsara.com.sg wrote: On 26 June 2009 pm 14:01:02 Polytropon wrote: Maybe this is because vi scared me when using WEGA (which is the GDR's equivalent of UNIX System III, run on the P8000 was this the russian PDP-11? I'm not sure

Re: Which latex should I install

2009-06-26 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:32:31 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Hopefully Polytropon will chime in on this, but I had to install TeXLive for everything to work. Ere I am, J. H., the ghost in the machine. :-) I've never tried TeXLive, I have to admit, because I NEVER had ANY

Re: Which latex should I install

2009-06-26 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:53:46 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon, here is the problem I was having: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2351398+0+archive/2009/freebsd-questions/20090607.freebsd-questions Granted, that's not much to go on :) Ah, I see

Re: Stale lock files

2009-06-27 Thread Polytropon
(falsely) indicates that the program is already running. The location of the lock file seems to depend on the respective program. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-27 Thread Polytropon
. Just imagine some clever guy uses telnet inside such a network to configure the server... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-28 Thread Polytropon
is sweet too Try the Midnight Commander's mcedit editor, it has some of the functionaliy, keyboard-usage-wise... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-28 Thread Polytropon
with the advice to click on the devil to start the everlasting pain. :-) -- 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

Re: serial modem

2009-06-30 Thread Polytropon
and you're trying to find a command access to a DSL modem that has a serial line? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-30 Thread Polytropon
they won't help - they only support Outlook! Grrr! Can I read this as they don't support proper POP/SMPT? What an ISP... :-( -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom GNOME-based FreeBSD iso released

2009-06-30 Thread Polytropon
the viewer's site. -- 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

Re: Older FreeBSD reorders my disk nodes, can't mount root

2009-06-30 Thread Polytropon
scrolling keys to see the messages that went off the screen. For reordering: Does the 4.x kernel already have ATA_STATIC_ID? Maybe this applies to your problem. I'm not running such a setting, so this is only a wild guess. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: WebInstaller (was: Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom GNOME-based FreeBSD iso released)

2009-06-30 Thread Polytropon
in less time than windows takes to install and update. :D Yes, that is true. And it will continue working much longer than Windows will even exist. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Google Earth on FreeBSD 7.0

2009-07-01 Thread Polytropon
to be located in the /usr/compat/linux/ subtree. Anybody managed to get it to work? Never tried, sorry. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-01 Thread Polytropon
distributions from FreeBSD fans. Why? And an addition: I'm not a FreeBSD fan, I'm a FreeBSD user. I am using it because it serves my needs best, and I am nearly exclusively using it (along with Solaris). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: serial modem

2009-07-01 Thread Polytropon
of dialing a number and then establish the connection. -- 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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
. Reboot, return to FreeBSD. :-) -- 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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
with a magazine for 29,95 DM many years ago. The system it ran on was a 486 DX2 / 66. And the system was quite usable, especially support for PS printer and LaTeX were most helpful. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
, instead you created one partition (a) on each of the disks. If you are a lazy guy (as I am), then use sysinstall to create the slices and the partition. Choose standard MBR after the slice editor and go ahead with the partition editor. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
window opens whenever I run MATLAB, I would just like to be able to hide it each time. Check for some kind of minimize after start option in XFCE 4. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
emphasize on quality - and that's very important to me. -- 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

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:04:45 -0700, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Next I used bsdlabel and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 ad8

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
be reattached at any time. There's a tool called detach included in the ports. It allows you to start a process and then keep it running independent of the existence of its starting shell or your login shell. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Num Lock key in X, PF keys, involves xmodmap, xev

2009-07-05 Thread Polytropon
properly at VTs, too. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...Fr ! ESC / DefF keycode 134 = Escape ! A-Abf / Abruf keycode 210 = F25 ! PsAus keycode 219 = F26 ! Linie / Pos1 keycode 111 = F27 ! Pause / E-Lö keycode 220 = F28 ! bSDef

Re: SanDisk FreeBSD 7.2 p1 install

2009-07-05 Thread Polytropon
this with the unit. And I have had no help on the HP Forums. Any body know how I can detect these chips under FreeBSD 7.2. The command # pciconf -lv should list you all the devices the kernel detects, no matter if a driver is attached (means: will usually work then) or not. -- Polytropon From

Re: Num Lock key in X, PF keys, involves xmodmap, xev

2009-07-05 Thread Polytropon
sets the window into the background. (For most of these functionalities, I'd like to use the 2x5 keys on the left as I did it with the Sun keyboard.) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: How to symlink devfs devices?

2009-07-08 Thread Polytropon
device re0 - lan0 That's no problem: Use the link statement: link source target, such as linkda0s1 camera linkre0 lan0 in you /etc/devfs.conf file. See the manual page for this file for more information, or see the example entries in this file. -- Polytropon From

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-09 Thread Polytropon
(or a reasonable similar browser that will render HTML and execute Javascript identically). Maybe XFCE 4 is a good choice: http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/design-your-own-desktop-with-xfce-44-part-2/ -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Polytropon
, it will pop out of the USB socket and therefore cause xlock to be called? :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:33:50 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:35:24AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: To make it more complicated, what about wearing some specific USB device on your clothes, attached to a chain, and when you leave the computer

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Polytropon
), but just as a screensaver, no real lock. Remember, it was DOS. -- 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

Re: Hareware-RAID (hptrr) - Slice size changes (FreeBSD 7.0)

2009-07-16 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:04:16 +1000, ghostcorps ghostco...@gmail.com wrote: Looking at the DEV folder I notice [...] Just for terminology: /dev directory. No folder. FreeBSD doesn't have folders, it has directories. The directory's name is not DEV, it is dev, precise /dev. -- Polytropon From

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-17 Thread Polytropon
be touched. -- 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

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:07:36 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:43:47AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:48:37 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: So . . . how do I upgrade Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 without running the risk

Re: Clearing ttyv0 after boot

2009-07-17 Thread Polytropon
can still press the Scroll Lock key and see the messages that have been scrolled off the terminal. If you want, you can use an additional call to /usr/sbin/vidcontrol to clear the buffer. Refer to the vidcontrol manpage for how to do that. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-18 Thread Polytropon
, restore older Firefox and keep using the working settings. Otherwise, try to translate changed settings to the new Firefox version. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Recover deleted file

2009-07-18 Thread Polytropon
on a level lower than the file system. -- 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

Re: Strange (repeatable) hang when ripping a CD

2009-07-19 Thread Polytropon
, it shouzld at least be UDMA66. Maybe defective drive due to failing TUR taskqueuing? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: scontrib

2009-07-19 Thread Polytropon
included. :-) Depending on what you want to do with accessing the source code, it may be valid to say that you can leave out scontrib, but as far as I remember, it will be needed for building things from the source code (make vuildworld and buildkernel). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany

Re: scontrib

2009-07-19 Thread Polytropon
* which is scontrib.aa ... scontrib.bb, along with install.sh. You can then use the command # ./install.sh contrib which will concatenate the archive parts scontrib.* and extract them info /usr/src (or any other place you may specify). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: scontrib

2009-07-19 Thread Polytropon
for RELENG_5_2_0 (equals 5.2-RELEASE, if I see this correctly) or any other version you want to obtain (such as 5.2 with security patches, latest of 5.x, generally latest). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Strange (repeatable) hang when ripping a CD

2009-07-19 Thread Polytropon
-9660) which has a different block size than the audio CD format (2048 vs. 2352). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Odd behavior after installing a tape drive

2009-07-19 Thread Polytropon
disappeared. :-) I am questioning your reasoning behind turning off a tape drive on a live system. I would never recommend that. As I said, if you do it the SCSI way, it's completely unproblematic. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Samba PDC with LDAP backend

2009-07-20 Thread Polytropon
%2fopenldap%2fldapi/ p2 = ldaps://127.0.0.1/ p3 = ldap://192.168.5.200/ Compage f3 to p2: ldap://127.0.0.1/ vs. ldaps://127.0.0.1/ -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: K3b-DVD

2009-07-20 Thread Polytropon
permissions for the cd and pass devices. -- 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

Re: K3b-DVD

2009-07-20 Thread Polytropon
looks completely valid. Have you tried to use plain growisofs in order to check that it's not a K3B problem? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: backticks in rc.conf

2009-07-21 Thread Polytropon
is executed. -- 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

Re: K3b-DVD

2009-07-21 Thread Polytropon
is this: /dev/acd0/media/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Allthough it looks like a medium error, it's still possible that it is a permission problem, and growisofs is showing this problem. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: gutenprint and lpd

2009-07-22 Thread Polytropon
on FreeBSD - modern egg-laying woolmilksows that do not conform to any standards... -- 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

Re: make installkernel KERNCONF= faults with error

2009-07-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:11:14 +0300, Anton an...@sng.by wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, It says that there is no libbsm Check that all your sorces are complete and of the same version. The libbsm is part of openbsm - /usr/src/contrib/openbsm/. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Ports and package creation Automation

2009-07-22 Thread Polytropon
), build packages for them as well. As well as for for make package, packages are stored in the /usr/ports/packages/ directory. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Can't login to the system...!

2009-07-23 Thread Polytropon
this path for toor, no problem at all. -- 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

Re: Restarting hal

2009-07-24 Thread Polytropon
to restart DBUS as well - just a wild guess, im not using DBUS or HAL because I like my X working. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: OT: web-based applications and security...

2009-07-24 Thread Polytropon
to the Internet, delivering certain services to the users. With the goal of decentralized computing, processing and working, the in-house solution seems to get less and less important. Thoughts? Yes. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Restarting hal

2009-07-25 Thread Polytropon
fashioned way, but DBUS and HAL have to be excluded at compile time. -- 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

Re: Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

2009-07-25 Thread Polytropon
the correct addresses and IRQs, maybe the documentation belonging to the expansion card can help... If I see this correctly, each serial port should then be visible as a /dev/cuadN device file. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

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