Re: OSS driver

2005-01-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:03:31AM +0200, Bozhidar Batsov wrote: I haven't mentioned my audio card because this topic continues a recent discussion in the mailing list about the oss driver. The snd_ich driver works but the output from it is kind of miserable and I was hoping that the oss

Re: Sound echo

2005-01-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:11:38AM -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 using the via8233 sound driver. And on some of my games I get echo like sound. If you have had this problem and know how to fix it. I would be greatly appreciate it. While I haven't noticed echos, I did

Re: Video Capture, TV tuner devices

2005-02-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:33:52PM +, Rod Person wrote: I'm looking into getting a video capture of TV Tuner device for my PC. Does anyone have any experience with Plextor ConvertX PVR devices? They are usb and that makes me a little shy in the purchase of one. My other choice would

Re: Mozilla and Firefox fail to start

2005-02-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:27:56PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Monday 31 January 2005 11:07 pm, Mac Mason wrote: So, I say to myself, wouldn't it be nice to have firefox? So, cd to the right place, make install clean... and then try to run it...and it thinks for two or three

Re: Firefox

2005-02-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:37:44PM -0500, Alfredo Perez wrote: Hi I just updated my ports and installed Firefox. I have installed Firefox version 0.9.3. How can I update it to version 1.0? The easiest way is to install the portupgrade tool, and then run 'portupgrade firefox' as root. See §

Re: upgrading FreeBSD

2005-02-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:49:23PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: You're so right ;-) Main problem (at least to me) is almost everytime *what* is important data and what is not? I don't mean my personal stuff (that's the easy part), but more, which control files and (fine) tunings on the

Re: Getting a microphone to work

2005-02-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:44:37PM -0500, Tom Huppi wrote: BTW, does anyone know off-hand how to set 'mixer' settings as default (so I would not have to re-set them after a re-boot?) You can create a file called /etc/rc.local, and put the relevant mixer command in it. See rc(8). Roland --

Re: dvd-burning/alternative to k3b?

2005-02-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:02:30AM -0600, Brian John wrote: Hello, I was using k3b for burning but now that I am using fluxbox it looks like I can't use it anymore. Is there a close alternative? What is everyone using for cd and dvd burning? For CD's: cdrecord (using the SCSI cd driver and

Re: questions about extra logging

2005-02-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:33:45AM -0500, Steve Lake wrote: I'm curious of something. I think I've got a fellow co-worker who may be trying to break into my workstation and I need some help. I know kde logs whenever a failed login attempt occurs if the screen is locked and sends that in

Re: [drm] failed to load kernel module i915

2005-02-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:27:09PM -0500, GRF . wrote: I have installed 5.3 and am trying to set up xorg on an Intel motherboard with a build in 945 chipset graphic card. 4.10 was a breeze to set up for X but so far I receive what I believe is the following error: -snip- from Xorg.0.log

Re: zyxel

2005-02-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:39:33AM -0800, Gosha Sh wrote: Hello! i have Zyxel omni adsl usb ee(Alcatel chipset),but it works only under linux or windows... Better get an adsl router with an ethernet connection instead of a USB one. You won't need special drivers for it. but i need it working

Re: Bus errors

2005-02-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:07:54PM -0500, Tom Parquette wrote: I'm starting to wonder if I have a hardware problem with this machine since it only seemed to start when I put a heavier load on it (e.g. setiathome) and the strange symptoms seem to be showing up in multiple places. It could

Re: ISP connection issue

2005-02-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:06:25PM -0500, Shawn B wrote: I am fairly new at *nix and FreeBSD. I am attempting to run a privately owned, publically accessible web server from a PC running FreeBSD 4.8. I configured Maybe a bit OT, but you should consider upgrading to the latest release,

Re: how to set up a dual boot system

2005-02-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:40:13PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: I have a box with 3 ide's primary master - 4 gb, win 98 currently installed @ 150 mb in size primary slave - 4 gb, empty secondary slave - 6 gb, empty Can I install fbsd (5.2) and set up dual booting from where I'm at now?

Re: how to set up a dual boot system

2005-02-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:37:39PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 06:08 PM 2/13/2005, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:40:13PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: I have a box with 3 ide's primary master - 4 gb, win 98 currently installed @ 150 mb in size That would be ad0

Re: trouble printing

2005-02-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:06:06AM -0600, Brian John wrote: Hello, I tried this question on the newbies list first but didn't get a response so I'm trying here. This is the right list for questions. I am having trouble printing from my HP Deskjet 710C printer. It is hooked up via parallel

Re: Firefox, java, plugins - need to go back to the port?

2005-02-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:03:06PM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 08:30:55PM -0600, John wrote: I installed firefox from the packages, and now that it seems like I may have Java installed, I'd like to get the two to play together. snip No-one have an anwer or a pointer for me?

Re: Lexmark X1100 printer

2005-02-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:05:24PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerry Freymann Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:27 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Lexmark X1100 printer I had to replace my trusty

Re: Linux Drivers

2005-02-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:50:40AM -0800, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh wrote: Dear all, Can freebsd load linux drivers? It cannot load binary Linux drivers. But even Linux can't load all binary Linux drivers, especially between versions. Linus dislikes binary-only drivers, and with good reason. If

Re: Lexmark X1100 printer

2005-02-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:53:01PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The problem is that the cheap color inkjets on the market are all winprinters these days. So you have to go there if you want to print color. Over the years I've had a couple of inkjet printers, starting with a Deskjet 500.

Re: Extracting an img file

2005-02-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 04:32:03PM +1000, Warren wrote: How do i extract the contents of an img file so i can view // empty the contents out? without burning due to it being a 3.1gig img file and i got no DVD Burner. You mean an ISO9660 image? Use an md(4) device. See §16.12.2 of the

Re: Autoinstall

2005-02-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 11:20:24PM +0530, Subhro wrote: Hello Folks, I am trying to create a custom install CD for a few systems which are exact clones of each other. I am trying to make the CD such that whenever the systems are booted off the CDs, it would be auto partitioned and all the

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:58:31PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I get an e-mail like the following every eleven minutes on my test system: = From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 27 16:55:00 2005 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:55:00

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:44:16PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Roland Smith writes: The save-entropy script is being run from cron. See /etc/crontab. The first line of this script after the header begins with # This. It looks like the hash mark was removed, and the shell is trying

Re: Firefox and Macromedia Flash Plugin...

2005-02-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:09:45AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: I have searched the archives and googled a good bit. Everyone seems to rely on the Linux plugin wrapper. Is there a 'no Linux compatibility alternative that works well with Firefox? There is a port called flashplugin-firefox,

Re: Strange operator messages

2005-03-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:34:08AM +0100, BSD todoo wrote: Since yesterday I have strange messages issued by operator !! Message 26: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Mar 4 23:00:00 2005 X-Original-To: operator Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL

Re: Cannot print

2005-03-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 03:40:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed apsfilter on the latest FreeBSD 5.3 to print with my epson stylus color 640 (driver eps640lp.upp) following both the handbook chapter on printing an artcle in freebsddiary.org. But: 1) If I - running

Re: Cannot print

2005-03-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:56:20PM +, Vittorio wrote: I checked my old messages.0.bz2 at the very beginning of my trying to set the printing system up I found a line reading Interrupt storm detected on irq7: lpt0; throttling interrupt source Which from the following bootups

Re: What's the minimum memory for a process in FreeBSD 5.3?

2005-03-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 03:36:26PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I wrote a very tiny program in C that occupies a mere 7417 bytes on disk. When I run it, however, and look at it with top, it shows the size as 1,208,320 bytes in total size, with 663,552 bytes resident. Where are the extra

Re: What's the minimum memory for a process in FreeBSD 5.3?

2005-03-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 06:37:45PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Roland Smith writes: Shared libraries, stack space, heap space. Why would shared libraries be charged against the process--they should be common to every process, right? As I understand it (correct me if I'm wrong

Re: Problem with libgphoto2, Canon Ixus v2 (USB) and 5.3-STABLE

2005-03-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:48:16PM +0100, Olivier Certner wrote: Hi there, I've tried to download a few pics from my Canon Ixus v2 camera with libgphoto2 (frontends: kamera and gphoto2) without success. The camera is supported though, I even used libgphoto2 successfully on a

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:05:15PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I'm surprised there isn't just some way of reading the tape and doing a few simple sanity checks on the data (without comparing it to anything). A drive or tape error would likely show on such checks. What you could do is dump

Re: audio player (was: ayuda)

2005-03-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 02:44:03PM -0600, jose luis wrote: hi my name is joseph i saw a command named play y want to known if i can use it for listen to music Depends on which port it comes from. If you have the play port installed (use pkg_info|grep play to test), it can only play RIFF and

Re: how to find which port has a given executable

2005-03-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:33:13PM -0500, Rajarajan Rajamani wrote: Is it possible to find out which port has a particular executable/script file ? It took me some time to find out if the script epstopdf was in latex or tex or tetex! pkg_which, from the portupgrade port works very nicely for

Re: freebsd and a serial fax modem ?

2005-03-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:47:13PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: So any sugestions how to tell my serial fax modem to put every thing in a file directory or mailbox ? I had a dream it was just mount /dev/serialfax /mnt :) But i am guessing its going to be more like a kernel nightmare :) Try

Re: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations

2005-03-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 03:58:52PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I asked about it before and will ask about it again. I posted my errors but nobody reacted. -(it's hard to see people like anthony /do/ get attention)- Moths are drawn to flames. ;-) It's a freebsd-4.11 system. Ports are

Re: FW: dmesg -a lines' explanation? NEWBIE

2005-03-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 06:45:10PM -0800, Andrew Heyn wrote: plugging your recommendation onto the command line produced: /etc/devfs.conf:permxpt00666#permissions are set properly at boot ... which is still largely un-intelligible to me, at the moment. and which co-incides,

Re: kwik 1.

2005-03-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:00:35AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Can I use dd to copy an *.exe file from ~/ to my floppy; then have present the file to a:\ under DOG? No. If you use dd you'll screw up the floppy's filesystem. Just mount the floppy with 'mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0

Re: ssh - restricted shell

2005-03-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 04:02:39PM -0500, Duane Winner wrote: Hello, Does anybody know the best technique to accomplish this: We have a server that we use for mostly internal development, and run an SSH server. We have an outsider who we want to allow to ssh into this server and do

Re: Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

2005-04-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:17:14AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: What is the safest way to let non-root users access /dev/ttyd0? I notice that in FreeBSD, /dev/ttydx is owned by root:wheel. In linux, the ttySx's are in a special group so the trick there is to add users to that group

Re: Sound stutters and mouse slows way down

2005-04-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:49:15AM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote: I am using a Gigabyte server/workstation board for my desktop. It is a dual socket A board. I have 2x 2400MP athlons in it along with 768 megs of RAM. My load averages tend to be around 1.00 - 3.00 with CPU utilization 30-40%

Re: ATI RAGE Mobility [9700]

2005-04-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 04:08:34AM +0100, - wrote: Any way to get an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 working with 3D acceleration ? No. Ati only supplies windows and Linux drivers. The open source drivers in xorg only support up to the Radeon 9250. But see

Re: qemu

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 02:28:50PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: I discouvered QEMU today and I think it is an amazing program. Indeed. Very usefull to check out other OS on your FreeBSD box. Just to be sure and on the safe site: Will the command qemu -hda win98se.img -boot d -user-net do

Re: How do I name my network interface?

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:30:35PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! I have realized that my new motherboard has a built-in network interface, and I'd like to use it as well as the PCI based one I have. But, what do I call it when I plumb it with ifconfig? The PCI card I have is

Re: promail error message

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:13:52PM -0400, stan wrote: I'm trying to implement a new users .procmailrc file, and I'm getting this: Suspicious rcfile /home/sff/.procmailrc in /var/mail/log Here's the .prcmailrc file snip @ will simply be /dev/null'd '@' should be '#', I think. Roland

Re: How do I name my network interface?

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 09:36:38PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Using dmesg |grep 'Ethernet address'|sort|uniq gives a list of network interfaces. It unfortunately just shows my rl0 device. Then it seems that the other device is not supported my the FreeBSD kernel, or it could be disabled in

Re: procmail/formail syntax question

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:09:51PM -0400, stan wrote: I'm trying to get procmail to rewrite the TO: header. I've tried something like: TO=`formail -xTo:` I think this command is expanded only once, and gives an empty string because you didn't give formail any input. # is moved to viruses.

Re: How do I name my network interface?

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:00:55PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Having done that I conclude it is a Realtek 8201BL chip. Wouldn't there be another rl interface, then? The re nor the rl driver seem to support the 8201BL. What does 'pciconf -lv' say? Quite a lot. The parts that looks

Re: How do I name my network interface?

2005-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:52:39PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: The none only means it's not bound to a driver. You might try the vr(4) driver, although the 6102 is not mentioned in vr(4). Ok, then none makes more sense. It read about the vr driver and it worked! How did you know the vr(4)

Re: problems with cd/dvd-device

2005-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:19:04PM +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote: On 10/25/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, 25 October 2005 at 14:04:25 +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote: I know, I know. I ask a lot of questions right now, but it's just because I've waited until it's

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:09:05PM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Without knowing which program produces the fault,

Re: Fwd: problems with cd/dvd-device

2005-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:52:08PM +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote: From: Linnea Forslund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 25, 2005 3:51 PM Subject: Re: problems with cd/dvd-device To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/25/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, 25

Re: problems with cd/dvd-device

2005-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:48:59PM +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote: snip Check that CD devices are actually there, with ls /dev/*cd*. On my system this returns: /dev/cd0 /dev/cd1 but that's because I use SCSI emulation. A system with a GENERIC kernel would probably show /dev/acd0. A whole

Re: i get stuck installing kernel

2005-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:11:22AM -0700, Micah wrote: snip pkg_add cvsup-16.1h_2.tbz man/man1/cvpasswd.1.gz: Can't open 'man/man1/cvpasswd.1.gz': File exists man/man1/cvsup.1.gz: Can't open 'man/man1/cvsup.1.gz': File exists man/man8/cvsupd.8.gz: Can't open 'man/man8/cvsupd.8.gz': File

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 32bit to 64bit

2005-10-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:24:43PM -0700, Warren Liddell wrote: As per topic ... is it possible to upgrade from the 32 bit version of FreeBSD to the 64 bit version or is it better to do a new installation ? If upgrade can be done .. any URL/Links to a guide on how to do it ? This has been

Re: increasing mount size

2005-10-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:28:12PM +0100, eoghan wrote: Hello My /var mount has no more space left. I was wondering if there is some way to increase the size of it without loosing anything? That depends. If you have enough free space left on your harddrive, you could make a new slice, copy

Re: HP 1315

2005-10-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:07:41PM -0600, Slavik wrote: Hi! Help me please.I have HP 1315 All-in-one.How can I set it in FreeBSD(6.0RC). You'll find a driver at http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/. It was written for Linux, but might work in FreeBSD, because the printer drivers usually reside in

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

2005-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 10:28:35AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, Is there anywhere on the FreeBSD.org site that has any (even if semi-official) procedure for upgrading a FreeBSD-5Stable machine (i386) to 6.0? Chapter 20 of the Handbook details how to update your system with cvsup

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

2005-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:44:24AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello Roland, Thanks for the response. On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 10:28:35AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, Is there anywhere on the FreeBSD.org site that has any

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

2005-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 05:55:09PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: Okay.., I took the view that following the Handbook was the way to go, changing *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 to *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6. All went fine, that is, I was able to cvsup sources to upgrade a

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

2005-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 08:23:20PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: There were some messages about this on the mailing lists recently. Apparently some options and devices were moved into DEFAULTS (which is combined with the chosen kernel configuration by config(8).), so that people wouldn't

Re: running subversion as non-root

2005-11-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:40:47PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-11-01 08:32, Cerion Armour-Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:25:57 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote If you used the standard Ports stuff to install these and they have these broken permissions, it may

Re: WiFi Nintendo-DS and FreeBSD

2005-11-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:48:57PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: In november my DS goes WiFi (in Holland). Naturaly I want to play games that support this feature. (MarioKart-DS i.e.) at home ;-) The FreeBSD related question is: My main server runs 4.11-stable, some other machines run 5.4

Re: user limits

2005-11-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:24:19PM -0500, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... i was reading the login.conf man to figure out a way to limit user from a class to only certain directories. apparently that isn't possible there. there is a path, but thats $PATH for the particular user... not

Re: user limits

2005-11-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:55:48PM -0500, kalin mintchev wrote: chmod 750 directory/ thanks... i can't do that to /etc or /usr.. No you can't. But those directories cannot be written to by normal users. For finer-graines access control, you can try Mandatory Access Control, see

Re: Installing wine on 6.0 RC

2005-11-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:11:52AM +1100, paul thodiyil wrote: I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am having great trouble installing WINE and indeed other packages on my AMD64 desktop running FreeBSD ver 6.0. I had added this package during the installation process.

Re: MAKEDEV FreeBSD 5.x or higher.....

2005-11-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:28:56PM +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dears,FreeBSD community removed MAKEDEV script in FreeBSD 5.x or later. I have refered to online handbook,But it explains everything with MAKEDEV script. Please introduction a replacement of MAKEDEV. 5.x and later don't

Re: NFS Installation Issues

2005-11-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 07:51:29PM +1030, Matthew Smith wrote: Hi Having used AIX for about twenty years and Linux for nearly ten, I have decided to start exploring the possibilities of FreeBSD and have just downloaded the ISOs for Version 6/i386. I have attempted to do an install from

Re: NFS Installation Issues

2005-11-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 06:58:38AM +1030, Matthew Smith wrote: I assume that there's a kernel module not loaded, so after looking further through the documentation, I found that I should be able to put a line in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. Since the installation so far was actually bootable

Re: More help with find

2005-11-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 01:40:12PM -0800, Jeffrey Ellis wrote: snip What I really need is an expression which will ls all files found which have a mod. date/time of more than a certain number of days from today, but that are *not* in the Volumes directory, i.e., only those results which exist

Re: 5.2 x hangs

2005-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:27:23AM +0300, Ivan S. Anisimov wrote: Hello, I've recently upgraded from 5.0 to 5.2 (custom kernel with the only addition - device pcm) and encountered the following problem: x server hangs the whole system time after time on initialization or shutdown. x starts

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:11:42AM -0800, Micah wrote: I cleaned out all the fans, but they weren't that dirty. I can't test the temps while the system is under load (have to reboot and check them in the bios). Try xmbmon of mbmon from the/usr/ports/sysutils/xmbmon port. That should help

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:17:48AM -0800, Micah wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:11:42AM -0800, Micah wrote: I cleaned out all the fans, but they weren't that dirty. I can't test the temps while the system is under load (have to reboot and check them in the bios

Re: enable smp / hyperthreading

2005-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:53:20PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've just installed 6.0-RELASE and am trying to get SMP to work (I have af Pentium 4 with HT). So I've compiled the kernel with 'options SMP' and according to dmesg the two CPUs are found: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor

Re: relocating /tmp to other media

2005-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:54:29PM -0500, Dave wrote: Hello, I'm trying to run bitdefender on a 5.4 system. It works fine up until / fills up, i'm having it scan a 40 gb smb mounted windows share and when / fills specifically /tmp bitdefender cores out. My / filesystem on this box is i

Re: 5.4 to 6.0 upgrade

2005-11-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:38:00AM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi fbsder, I just upgraded my 5.4 to 6.0 last night and encounter some problems, please forgive me if this has already been brought up... I cvsup the source by changing RELENG_5 to RELENG_6, do the cvsup and follow the old routine

Re: upgrade package questions

2005-11-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:33:33PM -0600, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Hello All, Could someone please tell me how to upgrade a package over the web? The -r option of pkg_add allows you to get remote packages. So you could first forcibly deinstall the old package with 'pkg_delete -f', and than

usb flashdrive not working on 6.0

2005-11-10 Thread Roland Smith
Hi, After my old flashdrive broke down, I bought a new one and updated my machine to 6.0-STABLE (amd64). The new flashdrive is not recognized when I plug it in. There is no reaction whatsoever from the usb subsystem. This is the flash drive in question:

Re: usb flashdrive not working on 6.0

2005-11-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:42:10AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, After my old flashdrive broke down, I bought a new one and updated my machine to 6.0-STABLE (amd64). The new flashdrive is not recognized when I plug

Re: question regarding portupgrade for php on 5.3

2005-11-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:33:05AM -0500, Steve wrote: Forgive me if this is either a n00b or dumb question...this is the first time I'm trying things this way. I'm using 5.3 on i386 architechture. I have installed the portupgrade package with the intention of upgrading php4 on my box

Re: usb flashdrive not working on 6.0

2005-11-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:42:10AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Not offhand, but why don't you just try adding ehci to your kernel and see what happens? I didn't because the manpage says it's buggy, but I'll try. Adding ehci to the kernel seems to have fixed the problem. A da device is

Re: disk layout

2005-11-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:18:52AM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I have still a small question. I'll install FreeBSD-6 on a 160G drive. Is it OK to just use the normal layout (/ /var /tmp /usr) or will it be smarter to create some slices extra like /home or /data ? All slices are on the same

Re: device pf

2005-11-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:23:05AM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote: I cannot find the device pf settings anylonger in de GENERIC kernel config, /nor/ is it mentioned in NOTES. It isn't mentioned in the architecture specific notes (/usr/src/sys/$ARCH/conf/NOTES) but it is mentioned in the

Re: converting a .chm file

2005-11-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:38:53AM -0500, Dave wrote: Hello, I've got some .chm files i'd like to move. I was wondering if anyone know of a cli tool to convert them to another format, perhaps pdf, rtf, html, or plain text? If you mean Compiled HTML files as used by Windows, there is a

Re: Help: Asus P5WD2 mobo and ITE IDE controller problem

2005-11-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:13:51AM +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, I have had a system configured using this mobo and have hit a showstopper. The HDD (a seagate 330GB IDE) have been connected to the ITE IDE controller while the DVDrom has been connected to the primary IDE controller.

Re: Makefile and Kernel Optimizations in 6.0

2005-11-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:23:22AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have read on this forum that the /etc/make.conf file has been moved in version 6.0. I assume that although it has been moved, that it still serves the same purpose as it did in the 5.4 version. Is that correct? It hasn't been

Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

2005-11-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:00:41PM +0100, Blue Raccoon wrote: Joe, Thanks for your tips. On Tuesday 15 November 2005 18:37, Joe Altman wrote: I suggest trying to put this after the niash in the dll.conf file: :/dev/uscanner0 I did, but it makes no difference. You should verify that

Re: Printer prints garbage

2005-11-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:15:50PM +0100, Ron wrote: 2005/11/15, James Bailie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ron wrote: I am using Cups(I forgot to mention this). I know nothing of CUPS. The manual is online however, at: http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html#3_7 After a quick perusal,

Re: aacPlus audio stream?

2005-11-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:16:16PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Does FBSD have any ports that can play the new gee-whiz aacPlus audio? It should work with faad2; /usr/ports/audio/faad. There are also xmms plugins that use faad, but they're not in ports, AFAICT. Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

2005-11-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 10:52:07PM +0100, Blue Raccoon wrote: Then I rebooted, plugged the scanner in and got this: I missed that at first reading. :-/ uscanner0: vendor 0x03f0 product 0x045, rev 1.00/0.00, addr 2 Are you sure about these numbers? The product number should be four digits.

Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

2005-11-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:25:12PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: You should verify that /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf has the line niash in it. It did exist on my 5.4 machinebut then: You cut put a line like

Re: Creating bootable DOS floppy w/FreeBSD

2005-11-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:32:13PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm stuck... I need a bootable DOS floppy (for BIOS upgrade) to fix a broken Windows box. I have no problem formatting and putting an msdosfs on a floppy but it appears I cannot make it bootable with native tools. I've

Re: Switching from AMD64 to IA32

2005-11-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:07:41AM -0500, Ian Lord wrote: Hi, I installed freebsd 6.0 AMD64 version. I'm starting to feel it aint a so good idea because some commercial vendors doesnt provide binairies for it... PDFLIb, zend optimizer, etc So I was wandering, in the worst case

[OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X

2005-11-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:29:41PM +0100, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: snip But Unix has been available for MacOS users for a long time, far before MacOS X went out and using a Mach kernel. It has been since 1996, over a Mach kernel. Apple had its own UNIX running on 68k hardware since 1998:

Re: cannot erase cd-rw

2005-11-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:16:35PM -0600, Brian John wrote: For some reason, I can't erase cd-rws. I have tried K3b, cdrecord and burncd. Below is the output from cdrecord, can someone please help out? Well, I can confirm the issue. I have the same problem with 6.0-STABLE amd64.

Re: args to `make` within the ports tree

2005-11-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:50:19AM -0500, Mike Hernandez wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:35:13PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: There appears to be so many arguments to `make` when compiling applications fro the ports tree. What beats me is where they are documented ;)

Re: Some questions about ports system

2005-11-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:29:07AM +0100, Guillaume R. wrote: Hi At the end of a portsclean -LPPDDC I got this: ** Clean out /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg manually on occasions. ** Try using libchk(1) (sysutils/libchk) to find out unreferenced libraries. I'm asking thus some questions, the one is

Re: Yesterday's -STABLE kernel corrupts LAN

2005-11-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 06:38:07PM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: Hi, I updated -STABLE yesterday and since my FreeBSD machine is set up as gateway my home network broke down completely. I rebooted into last weeks kernel and everything worked as usual. Has anyone else seen this or have I been

Re: make index make fetchindex

2005-11-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:11:08AM +0100, bsd wrote: Hello, I have a little script that I run twice a week that updates my ports automatically. I have quite often errors with the make index line because I have a refuse file to fasten the process of updating my server. My question

Re: Very slow printing on 5.4 with cups anh HP LaserJet 4L

2005-11-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:18:49AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how did you change the setting? My 932c used to print 3 or 4 lines per pass and now it does one line per pass I had the exact same problem, except with a Deskjet 932C. Someone on the list said man lptcontrol and set

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