Re: Excessive letter-spacing in firefox3 under wine
Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thursday 29 January 2009 22:02:35 Tore Lund wrote: Subject line says it all - large gaps between all letters. Here is a screenshot: http://softblur.com/misc/spacing.jpg. I suppose there are others who run firefox3 under wine on 7.1-RELEASE with no problems, so can anyone think of what's wrong? I have imported fonts from my Windows 2000 installation, and I am using the same profile that works well with native FreeBSD firefox and firefox on Windows 2000. I believe this did not happen with firefox2. Grateful for any hint. What exactly did you do to import those fonts? You should put them in a separate directory under /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts, create fonts.scale and fonts.dir in that directory using mkfontscale and mkfontdir, then run fc-cache -f -v and (for completeness) add a FontPath entry to your xorg.conf. Alternatively, you can install the x11-fonts/webfonts port, which contains the most commonly used fonts. I have webfonts. In addition, I copied my Windows fonts to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts, thinking that might have something to do with it. (Actually, I only use wine in order to get flash9, so if anyone could help me solve this problem instead, that's even better. I have tried the available recipes with no success - my firefox3 just freezes.) This formulation is awkward. I meant to say that I wanted flash9 to work with native FreeBSD firefox3. Try to get it to work under linux-firefox first. Thanks for your advice, Tijl. I had already done these things, but the problem, I believe, is that linux firefox3 is a beta. As it happens, I now find that native firefox2 (2.0.0.20) works with my present setup, so I will simply use that version for the time being. I suppose linux firefox2 might also work, but there is no need for me to try it since I now have native firefox2, with flash9, with sound. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Excessive letter-spacing in firefox3 under wine
Subject line says it all - large gaps between all letters. Here is a screenshot: http://softblur.com/misc/spacing.jpg. I suppose there are others who run firefox3 under wine on 7.1-RELEASE with no problems, so can anyone think of what's wrong? I have imported fonts from my Windows 2000 installation, and I am using the same profile that works well with native FreeBSD firefox and firefox on Windows 2000. I believe this did not happen with firefox2. Grateful for any hint. (Actually, I only use wine in order to get flash9, so if anyone could help me solve this problem instead, that's even better. I have tried the available recipes with no success - my firefox3 just freezes.) -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: coretemp for AMD?
Mike Clarke wrote: But I get sensible looking results for my Athlon 64 X2 4850e with the following command: sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature For some reason it works on your 4850e. But for some of us this command does not work. It never reports anything but 40 C on my Athlon 64 X2 6000+. sysutils/k8temp, however, reports 20 C /28 C. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update fetching files failed
Tom Worster wrote: a funny thing happened on wat to 7.1 today (from 7.0-p6): # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE Have you tried freebsd-update -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade? I am not sure it makes a difference, but at any rate, as far as I know, this is the right syntax. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
gpeel wrote: Hi all, Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and Windows boot back. [snip] I know it won't help you now, but for the general case: It is a very good idea to save MBRs. Restoring an MBR is a quick and painless way to bring back a former state of affairs. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FBSD 7.1 BETA2 and RTL8168/8111 problem
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I recently installed FreeBSD 7.1 BETA2 on my system. During installation using FTP option, I could notice the following: After some random time (two, five or six minutes, for instance) the installation stalled and sysinstall lost the connection. I was taken back to the Select FTP site screen, and I had to configure my NIC again. Then, the install resumed and I got a usable system (MINIMAL + docs + manpages) But the problem persists. From time to time, it seems the kernel can't see the NIC. It happens during normal operation and no message is shown in /var/log/messages. ifconfig doesn't show my 're0' device, so I can't run dhclient on it and I have to reboot. I have to say that sometimes, even when I reboot, the NIC (RTL8168/8111 PCI Express) is not present. This device works fine in the same computer with either Vista or Fedora 9, though I have to say I had similar problems with earlier versions of Fedora (device disappearing or not present after boot), but after a kernel upgrade everything run smoothly. Does FreeBSD use the same driver than Linux does? Anybody else with this problem? Thanks in advance. All I can say is that I have the same NIC, which is built into my Asus M2A-VM motherboard. I have used it since March 2008 with no problems at all. For the past three days I have been running 7.1-BETA2, also with no problems. I should like to provide more detail if that can be of any help to you. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitoring CPU temperature: mbmon shows 201 degrees C
Achilleas Mantzios wrote: ... Having said that, the issue with the temperature must not be my thing :( after kldload coretemp, i get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% sysctl -a | grep tempera hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 40,0C dev.cpu.0.temperature: -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% The first always is stuck to 40 and dev.cpu.0.temperature to -1. Achillea, have you told us what CPU you have? Manolis presumes you have an Intel, but I do not see this information anywhere in your posts. If you have a recent AMD, try the port k8temp. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound on amd64
Kurt Buff wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:02:09 -0700 Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Do you have both the generic sound support (sound) as well as the specific hardware driver enabled in your kernel config? Sigh. Always something new to learn. Just wondering, why do people modify the kernel when kernel loadable modules can handle the sound card? Is it necessary on some types of hardware? -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Execute the command when login
ronggui wrote: I would like to execute xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc whenever login or start the Xorg. I try to put the command to ~/.login_conf or ~/.xinit, but it doesn't take effects. What should I do? Thanks. How do you start X? That command should normally be in ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc, all depending. Personally I put the xmodmap command in ~/.xinitrc, and my ~/.xsession is a symlink to ~/.xinitrc. That way, xmodmap will be executed whether I start X from the command line or use xdm. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and Greek support
Dimitris Giakoudis wrote: ... applied the settings and installed 'ports/x11-fonts/urwfonts' and everything is in Greek now. I have a problem though when viewing web pages that are encoded with el_GR, there are spaces among the letters and it is really ugly. Have you got examples of such web pages? I read some Greek things on the Net, and I have no problem with spaces among the letters. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists
Novembre wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Novembre wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but since I'm not subscribed to the lists, even if I post an answer to the person asking the question and CC it to the list, it doesn't regroup with other posts on the same topic. Is there any way around this? Besides what Randy wrote, several mailing lists are mirrored to newsgroups. I subscribe to muc.lists.freebsd.questions, even though I am subscribed to the list. (I prefer not to receive all that stuff as e-mail.) When answering a post, I have to edit the addresses, but my answer is then threaded properly. -- Tore I'm sorry, but I didn't quite get it. Do you mean that if I subscribe to the newsgroup which mirrors the list, and if I answer the question in the newsgroup, then it will be shown properly in the freebsd mailing lists as well? I mean, is the mirroring one way or both-ways? The mirroring is one-way only. What I do in Thunderbird is to hit Reply to All, delete the address lines beginning with muc* and add the address line To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. I believe you said you were using a browser, so I don't know if what I describe can be done through some web site. But it works fine for me in Thunderbird, and it will probably work fine in any other newsreader. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists
Novembre wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but since I'm not subscribed to the lists, even if I post an answer to the person asking the question and CC it to the list, it doesn't regroup with other posts on the same topic. Is there any way around this? Besides what Randy wrote, several mailing lists are mirrored to newsgroups. I subscribe to muc.lists.freebsd.questions, even though I am subscribed to the list. (I prefer not to receive all that stuff as e-mail.) When answering a post, I have to edit the addresses, but my answer is then threaded properly. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox and Thunderbird annoyance in TWM
John Wynstra wrote: I have FreeBSD 7.0 running on a PC at home which was formerly running Windows XP until I couldn't stand it anymore. I had both of the latest Thunderbird and Firefox installed on it as my mail application and web browser. Unfortunately I am unemployed so I was in the habit of using Dice via Thunderbird which when I double clicked the job advertisements would bring up the appropriate Firefox window auto magically. This is now broken. I don't know why but it is annoying. I thought it might be the pointer follows mouse focus policy but I was wrong. That is the default focus policy under my window manager (twm). BTW I had thought I was running fvwm instead of twm but evidently I was wrong in selecting the location of one of the initialization files. I use startx to start X11. An odd thing is that if I double click within Firefox as for instance when I am managing my bookmarks file it will raise the screen selected. It is only when I double click from Thunderbird that this is broken. Once in a while an odd thing like when moving the mouse over one window will raise another in addition to changing focus. Another annoyance. It is unclear to me whether this is just a problem with raising the right window or whether the problem is that Firefox does not pick up links from Thunderbird. In the latter case you may need to set these preferences in TB: network.protocol-handler.app.http network.protocol-handler.app.https Both should have the value /usr/local/bin/firefox. Sorry if I misinterpreted your problem. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sidetracked: why gjournal over soft-updates (Was: Re: UFS2
Ivan Voras wrote: 1) Soft-updates were created in a different time, with different requirements than modern hard drives (especially desktop hard drives) can deliver. Especially, SU requires that data it once sends to the drive gets written immediately, not cached by the drive. Modern desktop drives don't do that so journaling is today actually safer than SU The caching can be stopped by putting hw.ata.wc=0 into /boot/loader.conf. Doesn't that settle this point about safety? For details, you can search the mailing list archives - what I've said is nothing original and the topic has been talked about a lot. Since we use softupdates and others use gjournal, one suspects that there are reasons why real journaling systems have not been adopted. Once the subject has been raised, it would be nice to get an up-to-date view from someone in the know - as opposed to having to leaf through hundreds of old threads on the topic. TIA. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia using 32 bits install
Sébastien Morand wrote: [snip] nv-freebsd.h:76:24: error: pci/agpvar.h: No such file or directory [snip] So a file is missing. I try this: # cd work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-169.12/src/ mkdir pci cd pci ln -s /usr/src/sys/dev/agp/agpvar.h cd ../../../../ make install Hmmm. I think it complained about /usr/src/sys/pci/agpvar.h. It looks like you have put an agpvar.h among the nvidia files instead. I have a 7300 GT myself, and it works fine with nvidia.ko. The only thing I did before this install was to download kernel sources. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List replies
RW wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:19:11 +0100 Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An HTML forum is probably out of the question, but I wish FreeBSD would at least consider turning the mailing lists into newsgroups - something like news.mozilla.org - unless someone has a better idea. You can access the FreeBSD mailing lists through the gmane newserver: news.gmane.org. I find it very useful for lists I only rarely read - particularly for lists related to ports. Most list will accept posts through the server. You still need a valid email address to post though - the first post made through the news server needs to be validated by an email reply. Thank you for this information. I have monitored some of the lists through interfaces like muc.lists.freebsd.* and others, but they all seem to miss some posts. Hopefully, gmane is better. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List replies
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:54:00PM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: [snip] I request that this misunderstood piece of etiquette is revised. If someone has the brains to find this list as well as the brains to use FreeBSD at all, they also have the brains to come back here to look for answers. Wrong. Not everybody who posts here is even aware that it is a mailing list, much less how to read mails sent to the list. I guess the problem is lack of imagination on my part. I am not able to fathom how anyone can pick up and use the address of this list without realizing that it is a mailing list. Nor have I seen this point explained in the many previous discussions on this topic. There are reasons why this list is explicitly and deliberatly set up so you do not need to be subscribed to post here. Yes, and those reasons would also be good reasons to ponder whether a mailing list is the right type of forum. Lurkers and newbies should preferably peruse other people's question for a while before they post, and this is hard to do if they are not even aware that this is a mailing list. An HTML forum is probably out of the question, but I wish FreeBSD would at least consider turning the mailing lists into newsgroups - something like news.mozilla.org - unless someone has a better idea. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List replies
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: [snip] We don't accept email only from lurkers. The mailing list is also advertized as the official place to ask questions in CD-ROMs provided by vendors, in our documentation, on magazines, conferences, and so on. The normal thing on all other forums that I have heard of - and that includes Usenet - is that you have to go back to the forum to pick up answers to your question. The mechanism that you defend represents a break with established practice for most computer users. I have heard all the arguments many times over, and I don't buy them. I think it would be better to direct newbies to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, which at least has a predictable interface. (For instance, you don't risk missing the rest of a discussion because someone decides to prune the headers.) We don't want to make it _obligatory_ to subscribe, because this would alienate users who are too new to the Internet to be familiar with lists, subscriptions, and similar 'filtering' things. There is a touching concern for newbies in all this, which is out of step with the somewhat edgy aspect of FreeBSD that most of you seem to embrace in other connections. And the bottom line is that most newbies end up elsewhere. If making FreeBSD more popular is a priority, there is long list of issues that are more vital than this detail that we are discussing in this thread. Happy Easter! -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I'd like some help
Matthew Woodson wrote: I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i want to try Free BSD, but i can't figure out how to download it and the instructions don't make sense. I am running Windows XP OS- can you tell me how to download Free BSD with it? First of all: please break your lines so that they are roughly 72 chars long. Thank you. At what point are you stuck? A few words about that might help. I believe most of us install the system straight over the Net - simply because this is the easiest way. If you want to try it, you can download the bootonly.iso quickly, since it is very small: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.0/7.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso Burn this to a CD, and boot from it. Make sure you understand the implications of giving FreeBSD a partition of its own before you even start. Don't hesitate to get back here many times for more questions if you feel the need. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List replies
Jonathan McKeown wrote: [snip] As regards copying the original recipients, this list specifically requests it: check the regular posting titled ``how to get best results from freebsd-questions'', particularly para VII.6. I think you mean para VI.6. The gist of that paragraph is a wish to avoid taking a message which is of general interest off the list, hence the advice to cc the list. There is no argument there about why the sender should receive the mail. Indeed, such a practice is simply counter-productive to the intention expressed, since copying the sender increases the likelihood that a message (or even an ensuing discussion) of general interest is taken off the list. I request that this misunderstood piece of etiquette is revised. If someone has the brains to find this list as well as the brains to use FreeBSD at all, they also have the brains to come back here to look for answers. Copying the sender makes no sense at all, as far as I can see. Whether or not headers should be modified is a separate matter. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone have any luck installing openoffice?
D Hill wrote: It only took my computer just over four hours to install with 2x3Ghz dual core and 8Gb RAM. Sigh. When shall we get a modular OO. Sigh again. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is packages-6.2-release?
Incoming Mail List wrote: I have only ONE question. Where is packages-6.2-release? I have FreeBSD 6.2, and tuning it. Where I can download packages for my freebsd version? Thats a great question, and it appears that the 6.2-release packages repository has been removed. Looking in ftp.freebsd.org I see 5-stable, 6-stable, 6.3-release, 7-stable, 7.0-release, and 8-current. There is no 6.2-release directory so pkg_add -r returns an error for any package that you try to load. Very aggravating. Aggravating indeed. The real question here is why the OP does not upgrade to 6.3-RELEASE. I don't see a problem with not providing disk space for such a specific set of packages, and especially when a number of them can be found on the ISOs for the release in question. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-update upgrade problem
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Hi, I have already upgraded a couple of machines from 7.0-RC1/2 to 7.0-RELEASE using: freebsd-update -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade However, on this one machine, I get this: freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory I have no answer, but as step in hopefully the right direction, let me ask: does /var/db/freebsd-update/files exist when you get that message? Are there any files in it? I upgraded yesterday, and my ../files directory is full of *.gz files. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shutdown anomaly
Steven Friedrich wrote: I am seeing the following messages, which appear to indicate a memory overwrite: Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processs 'vnlru' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processs 'bufdaemon' to stop...done a iStyinncgi n(gm adxi s6k0s ,s evcnoonddess) rfeomra isnyisntge.m. .pr0o cess 'syncer' to stop...0 0 done All buffers synced. Uptime: 8m9s I don't know if this is relevant. Anyway, I used to see this error on 7.0-RC1, at any rate when using xdm. I no longer see it on 7.0-RC2. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Reason # 1 to be happy with Linux: It attracts all the morons who would otherwise fuck up FreeBSD? I do wish people would not be happy about missing users. Being rid of all the morons means that we are also rid of proper attention from companies like Adobe and Nvidia. Some of us see that as a drawback. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64
Kimi wrote: xorg-driver-nv will be more then good enough, providing 3D is not needed. 2D can also be pretty sluggish at times. The following shows the nv driver in its fully glory as I was leafing through a page of photos: http://home.no/tl18/misc/mincemeat.jpg Moreover, the nv driver does not provide a way to properly control brightness and contrast. I would say it is strictly necessary for anyone who is into photography to use the nvidia-driver, even if they are not remotely interested in 3D. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Display / Screen resolution question on IBM TP 1171
Angel Heaven wrote: Next problem: it has no sound. It seems like no sound card is detected at all. Any help is appreciated. Have you tried kldload snd_driver? The instructions in the Handbook section 7.2.1 usually work for me. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any way to configure VIA Chrome9?
My new motherboard has the built-in VIA Chrome9 graphics processor, which seems to use the xf86-video-via driver. The driver works, no doubt about that, but I badly want to configure gamma, contrast, etc. There is supposedly a configuraton utility for Linux, but the few comments I can find about it are not very encouraging. After all, even the s3gamma utility for Windows is rather clunky and lackluster. I may simply have to buy yet another grahics card (there is no AGP slot on this board). But it seems odd that there is no way to configure this processor, which otherwise seems fairly capable (unlike, say, the nv driver). Being able to somehow set gamma independently on the RGB channels might be all I need. Thanks for any hints. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any way to configure VIA Chrome9?
John Nielsen wrote: Quoting Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My new motherboard has the built-in VIA Chrome9 graphics processor, which seems to use the xf86-video-via driver. The driver works, no doubt about that, but I badly want to configure gamma, contrast, etc. There is supposedly a configuraton utility for Linux, but the few comments I can find about it are not very encouraging. After all, even the s3gamma utility for Windows is rather clunky and lackluster. I may simply have to buy yet another grahics card (there is no AGP slot on this board). But it seems odd that there is no way to configure this processor, which otherwise seems fairly capable (unlike, say, the nv driver). Being able to somehow set gamma independently on the RGB channels might be all I need. Thanks for any hints. I haven't used it, but you may want to check out the openchrome project (http://www.openchrome.org). There is a FreeBSD port available in the ports tree under x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome. Thanks, John. I wasn't sure about this port. I first tried to download it as a package and started X with the driver via (according to the documentation), but X did not find it. I then got rid of the package as well as the old via driver and installed xf86-video-openchrome as a port. It still did not work. However, studying the new error message, I decided to correct the driver to openchrome, which DID work. I must have come across some stale documentation. At any rate, I can now start X, and it responds to the Gamma line. To some extent it also works with xvidtune. Screen size and placement is not perfect, but I hope this can be improved when I have studied the caveats mentioned at the openchrome site. Things look promising now. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD or PCBSD?
Frank Staals wrote: Just make sure you have free space and go. You probably want to use the FreeBSD Bootmanager but I'm not 100% sure about that ( Only running a dualboot system with FreeBSD and WinXP for which the FreeBSD bootmanager is required ) FreeBSD boot manager shouldn't be required for WinXP. I am using the Windows 2000 boot loader myself. It's very simple as long as FreeBSD is on the first disk. Watch your steps if FreeBSD is on another disk: http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/09.10.shtml -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics
Bill Moran wrote: Huh? The figure for PC-BSD in November was 6551. When I checked earlier this evening, it was 1997. I suppose this does NOT mean that 4554 PC-BSD users have kicked the bucket. Probably, it means that many PC-BSD systems have not YET reported to bsdstats in December. I think this way of doing it does not serve the following purpose: The mission of this site is to compile semi-accurate numbers for advocacy and marketing of the *BSD operating systems. For the fulfillment of this noble mission, it would be better to display statistics for the last complete month to casual visitors. If people want to see running counters, this could be done on a different page. Just my not-so-humble opinion. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics
Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Percentage Change in November from October: Overall - 2.5% Broken down as: DesktopBSD + 31.8% ( 737 hosts) DragonFly+ 9.5% ( 23 hosts) FreeBSD + 8.4% (5008 hosts) GNU/kFreeBSD -100.0% ( 0 hosts) MidnightBSD +133.3% ( 14 hosts) MirBSD - 28.6% ( 5 hosts) NetBSD + 7.2% ( 119 hosts) OpenBSD + 11.3% ( 79 hosts) PC-BSD - 13.5% (6551 hosts) When I go to www.bsdstats.org, I see these figures: Systems This Month Percentage FreeBSD 5,041 67.5 % PC-BSD 1,997 26.7 % DesktopBSD 241 3.2 % NetBSD 99 1.3 % OpenBSD 56 0.7 % DragonFly 24 0.3 % MidnightBSD 12 0.2 % So, what's happening here? Is it too early in December for some BSD varieties to report yet? Whatever the answer, PC-BSD has hardly lost more than 2/3 of its users since November, so something is fishy here. In any case, it would be nice to see a DATE somewhere on these pages. Thanks for your efforts, BTW. I just ran bsdstats myself. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox 2.0.0.9 issues on 7.0-BETA3
Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I have a freshly installed 7.0-BETA3 i386 system So have I. and am having issues with firefox 2.0.0.9. FWIW, native firefox-2.0.0.9,1 runs perfectly OK here. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?
Ivan Voras wrote: Tore Lund wrote: Moreover, wasn't there supposed to be a new install program? I have read some promising remarks about it, but it's certainly not part of 7.0-BETA3. Personally, I would much rather type a long list of commands than use the old, rickety sysinstall. Yes there was, and I'm working on it. Unfortunately, late in the development cycle of 7 (BETA2) there was a bug introduced in the kernel which collides with my work so far so the development of the installer is essentially paused until the bug is fixed. More unfortunately, it looks like the bug will not be fixed for 7.0-RELEASE so there will not be a new installer for 7.0-RELEASE. Thank you for the effort on the install system. And thanks to you and Kris for some answers. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?
Ivan Voras wrote: Dave wrote: Hello, How stable is FreeBSD 7 Beta 3? Is it near production are their any outstanding issues? Probably no major bugs will be fixed between now and 7.0 so you might as well start using it now. It's stable enough like all .0 releases, meaning you should throughly test it for your own workload before using it in production. Just curious, what is the official forum for pre-release discussions? I notice there are some threads on the current list, but it seems to me that this is really questions stuff, since it is an upcoming release. In any case, I tried the boot-only CD, and I was not able to install any packages during the install process. Sysinstall aborted with Signal 11 when trying to read INDEX from the ftp site. Pkg_add from the command line seems to work, however, so it looks like I may get online from 7.0-BETA3 tomorrow. Moreover, wasn't there supposed to be a new install program? I have read some promising remarks about it, but it's certainly not part of 7.0-BETA3. Personally, I would much rather type a long list of commands than use the old, rickety sysinstall. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install
Rogelio Bastardo wrote: I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? The boot-only CD will be fine for any sort of installation, as long as you have a good Internet connection. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are you guys using xcdroast?
Lisandro Grullon wrote: Hi Erich and thank youf rot the reply, I do understand that this is an X aplication, I am trying to run it in 6.2_release using Xorg 7.2 and Gnome2, still giving me that strange error when I try to execute from the shell as root, I try google at it and nothing shows up for it. Any ideas what might be happening? Please don't top-post and please wrap your lines. Thank you. You might try xhost +localhost in your .xinitrc. That will allow all local users to use X. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDRW Stopped Working Moving to 6.x
Crist J. Clark wrote: I just tried to burn a CD for the first time in a long time on a machine. The burncd(8) command worked fine on this machine in FreeBSD 5.x (or was it 4.x?), but now in 6.2, I get, [snip] It's unclear to me whether you got a satisfactory answer. Anyway, I run 6.2-RELEASE, and I burn CD-RW in this way: burncd -f /dev/acd0 blank burncd -f /dev/acd0 data cd.iso fixate -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....
Michel Talon wrote: ... and X locks up at least once a day. Well, mine doesn't. It is not very difficult to understand why Ubuntu is massively gaining users, while FreeBSD doesn't, and is now ranked position 22 on Distrowatch. Add together FreeBSD, PC-BSD and DesktopBSD - FreeBSD will then be at position 9. I am sure Ubuntu is a good system in many ways. But FreeBSD's position on DistroWatch is very impressive for a system that is not Linux, is not actively promoted, does not even attempt to be user-friendly ... and whose name does not mean a thing in any African language. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Seriously, I can see some logic in removing or obfuscating email addresses in web accessible list archives, but making it hard to impossible for other list subscribers to followup to poster would make the freebsd mailing lists a lot less useful. Maybe so. But we could be allowed to register two addresses - one that we use for sending and another one for reception of list mail. And if someone prefers to use a bogus sending address, that should not matter as long as the other address is real. I should like to see a system of this sort (or similar) on all the FreeBSD mailing lists. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading Xorg from 6 to 7
Andreas Davour wrote: I have just read the UPDATING file and realized that this is something that have so many possibilities of going horribly wrong that it most certanly will. Thus I want another option. [snip} We have seen some clever ways of doing it. For my own part, I studied those carefully, but in the end I bit the bullet and went by the book (UPDATING). I found the upgrade fairly smooth and swift. I ran portupgrade with the -aP option, and this step took 3 hours 40 mins on my modest AMD XP 2200. There were some hiccups, but after some reboots and adjusting, everything (well, almost everything) was back to normal. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 3D Desktop (XGL/AIGLX/...) how to start?
Andy Harrison wrote: Probably, but beryl would not work. metacity and beryl are just window managers, they do not provide the rest of the desktop environment. Uh, correct me if I am wrong. I have not tried Beryl myself. However, as I understand it, Beryl would work, as a window manager. Not everyone needs or wants a desktop. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linksys wireless pcmcia card / FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
Spiros Papadopoulos wrote: Allthough i have set to yes the option about receiving your messages to the list I didn't receive it. In addition i haven't received any reply so far. Could somebody confirm that my message was sent properly to the list. Yes, I got your original message on freebsd-questions yesterday. I think the problem is with Google mail. I have problems receiving mail from a neighbor of mine who is on Gmail. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Folppy disk download
nik wrote: hi, could you send me a floppy disk boot download please. I think you are looking for this page: http://www.no.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html Leaf down to Acquire the Boot Floppy Images. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Write To Win Drive?
Stan Cooper wrote: Hi; I have a windoze drive set up in my fstab that I can access and read, but I can't write to it! The permissions are set rw...doesn't that mean read *and* write? I'm confused. TIA, If it is FAT32, my best guess is that you do not have permisson to write. In that case, log in as root, umount the drive, set new permissions, etc. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with burncd - cannot mount result on unix or windows
UCTC Sysadmin wrote: Using a Sony CRX850E slimline CD burner / DVD reader FreeBSD 6.1 I write a single file to the CD and say -fixate; the command shows the progress of writing and then finishes with no error message. Trying to then mount that CD on FreeBSD says unrecognizable and on windows says maybe disk is blank. Care to show us the command you are using and what sort of file you are writing? In any case, drop the hyphen before fixate. Is burncd broken? No, it isn't. I burn CDs with this command: burncd -f /dev/acd0 data cd.iso fixate -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pciconf -l | grep nvidia [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x21881682 chip=0x00f510de rev=0xa2 I have a Geforce XFX 7800 GS AGP why does it show up as pci? Mine also shows up as PCI. As long as it works, I don't mind: %pciconf -l | grep nvidia [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x000210b0 chip=0x017110de rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00 I'd be curious to know whether Pieter's last suggestion helps. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: What version of FreeBSD are you currently running. Sorry for pressing the point, but it seems you have not yet told us which version of FreeBSD you are running. /Darn this looks pretty complicated :-P In that case, it may be simpler to just back up a few directories and install the latest version from scratch. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Tournoij wrote: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled means that the nvidia AGP driver isn't working, not that 3d acceleration isn't working. If you want to use the nvidia agp driver, then you should compile a kernel without device agp. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html I believe it's enough to put this line into /boot/device.hints: hint.agp.0.disabled=1 Is this really true? Who can confirm this? I also wonder why glxgears in FreeBSD gives me 5000 fps, while in Linux gives me 13000. To get 5000 fps in Linux I need to disable 3d support :-\ . Have you installed the port or package nvidia-driver (or one of its siblings)? The documentation that comes with it will probably tell you what you need to know. On my own machine I have NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-9631, and I get this: %sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 4x hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: disabled -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the port nvidia-driver. I have followed all the step in the readme (including adding the line to /boot/device.hint see below). OK. The line hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled looks very odd, so I had to ask. If you have also modified your xorg.conf according to the docs (or used nvidia-xconfig), this is baffling. Sorry I am unable to help. P.S. I also have ran ppracer. Results: *FreeBSD* *110 fps* *Gentoo Linux* *240 fps* I did not get more than 35 fps, in 800x600 resolution... -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to run root cmds when starting xorg?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:24:49 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to run root cmds when starting xorg? Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:24:49 +0100 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) how do i exec a kldload script when starting ttyv8 kdm (or xorg) ? modify the xorg or kdm startup script? Xorg's xinitrc is a user script. Or does one of the X server or client thing start as root? If so, which script runs? xinitrc didnt work.. ./kdm -nodaemon: exactly which one (if any) executed as root? The startup script is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0. You may also want to have a look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession. This latter file will call up ~/.xsession, which is where we normally put commands at the beginning of an X session called up through xdm. What I do in that file is to call nvidia-settings and display a background image. I guess ~/.xsession is the right place to put a kldload - this file may be simply a symlink to .xinitrc (if the setup you want is in this file). why do you need such thing? I want to load sound support only when in a desktop environment, and auto-disable it when moving back to a console. That is, I need a script that loads sound when starting, and unloads when exiting kdm. Okay, when you revert to the console, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xreset may be the right place to put a kldunload. Or maybe you could use GiveConsole and TakeConsole (in the same directory) to accomplish these tasks. I hope more expert users will chime in with more information about the difference between these various command files. Have a look at man xdm as well as /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config. For some reason, not many users appear to use xdm. The majority apparently prefer kdm or gdm or just .xinitrc. I find that odd myself. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to run root cmds when starting xorg?
Tore Lund wrote: The startup script is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0. You may also want to have a look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession. This latter file will call up ~/.xsession, which is where we normally put commands at the beginning of an X session called up through xdm. What I do in that file is to call nvidia-settings and display a background image. I guess ~/.xsession is the right place to put a kldload - this file may be simply a symlink to .xinitrc (if the setup you want is in this file). Correction: The file where I call nvidia-settings and display a background image is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Diagnosing fan problem
Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I have a ThinkPad T41p that has had a variety of fan problems for some time. After my most recent repair things seemed to be working fine, but the other day I was compiling some ports and the machine just shut down in the middle; after some experimentation it seemed clear that it was just overheating under load and shutting itself off. (Looking at the temperature sysctl showed that it was getting increasingly hot until it crashed.) How can I monitor what is happening? Are there any ways I can find out from FreeBSD if the fan is even on, or how it thinks it is working? systcl -a | grep fan didn't return anything. There are quite a few programs that can tell you CPU temperature and fan speed, like mbmon and conky, both in /usr/ports/sysutils. You could compare these parameters against data for the fan and cooler in order to ascertain whether anything is wrong with the fan. Can I control the fan? I don't know. In any case, I would not try to control fan speed if the problem is that the fan is insufficient or out of order. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Assembly language on FreeBSD
Rico Secada wrote: Hi I am brushing up on my assembler language and I wonder if anyone could recommend any particular reading well suited for FreeBSD? http://www.int80h.org/bsdasm/ -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recovering a file on an msdosfs partition
The thing that should never, ever happen did happen yesterday. I lost a file and was not able to recover it. ROX-filer said NewFile where I should have seen a familiar filename. I tried fsck_msdosfs and got this meaningful answer: isidoros# fsck_msdosfs /kdisk ** /kdisk (NO WRITE) Invalid signature in boot block: Not much help there, so I booted into Windows and ran chkdsk /f on the slice in question. The only thing it was able to recover was 4 kB of binary zeroes. Now, this was not a very important file. And I may have written to the slice since losing that file, so it may indeed have been unrecoverable. My question is whether I could have done anything else to make FreeBSD correct the goof it had made. The answer from fsck_msdosfs above does not tell me a lot, and one fine day this may happen to some really important file that has not yet been backed up. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox
Andreas Davour wrote: I did try to set up my environment like you described. But, in the listarchive the ftp site you mentioned is scrambled. Could you please repost it? The site I used didn't have many of the packages. I suppose you are talking about PKG_SITES. I use this Norwegian mirror: ftp://ftp.no.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/ The procedure seemed to be fairly intelligent, with portinstall searching /All and /Latest and sometimes going into packages-6.2-release if some package could not be found. But it needs to said that many installs failed with missing packages. At any rate, I downloaded gentoo, worker, xnview and some other things with portinstall -PPR. And I have no idea whether any of this meant anything for flash. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox
Andreas Davour wrote: It's terribly sad that nobody can make it work, as of now. I really hope FreeBSD 7 can make a change. It DOES work right now, in 6.2-RELEASE with linux-flashplugin7, and that is with sound. The problem is, it only works for some users, and no one knows precisely which conditions must be met. As I said some posts ago, I have struggled with this problem myself. And then, after installing some packages with PKG_SITES set to packages-6-stable, flash suddenly started working. So it's a fair guess that it might work for you too if you upgraded or installed something from packages-6-stable. But we really should get to the bottom of this. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox
Andreas Davour wrote: I'll try to do a cvsup, rebuild and try to reinstall the browser and the plugins. Is PKG_SITES only used with pkg_fetch or can I use the ports system as is? I've never even heard of it before today. I believe you can use the ports system as is. In theory at least you should get the same or newer packages that way. But I doubt that you need to rebuild the browser and plugins. The point is that I used portinstall -PPR some time between January 20 and 24. And it is probably the -R that has sucked in some updated library. I see a couple of Linux libraries last updated on January 22. Packages with linux in their name on my machine comprise the following: %pkg_info -Ex linux linux-expat-1.95.8 linux-flashplugin-7.0r69 linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_5 linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5 linux_base-fc-4_9 linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_6 You could check whether you have the same versions. And we could make other such checks if anyone has an idea what to look for. But it needs to be said that I also downloaded other things in those four days. And, most significantly, I settled some problems with my Nvidia driver. Maybe this was what made the penny drop. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox
Andreas Davour wrote: [snip] Is what I get when I try Google Video. YouTube works for video, but not sound. I wonder if that state kserel is what's troubling us? It's past midnight here, so I'll think about this thing tomorrow. I also get YouTube without sound. But I get http://www.flashsound.com/ with sound, and as far as I can understand, that is flash sound. In any case, I am ecstatic just to get the video, which I did not get before. I now have 6.2-RELEASE installed, and have not yet tried portinstall -PPR. What did you -PPR? Firefox? linux-flashplugin? I downloaded some file managers and editors in order to try them out. Afraid I don't recall too many particulars. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox
Andreas Davour wrote: On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Tijl Coosemans wrote: Flash9 is very unstable though, so you'll probably want to stay with flash7 for now. Since I have had serious problems getting even Flash7 to work, following instructions found here at the list, could you please summarize the steps for getting the older Flash version running? I'm begining to suspect something more is needed than the information I've found. Do e.g. I have to run firefox under Linux emulation? I think it is not a matter of detailing steps. I have used the steps in question many times over in order to get linux-flashplugin7 working with native Firefox, with no luck whatsoever. However, after installing 6.2-RELEASE, I have added some packages with portinstall -PP, and for some reason, linux-flashplugin7 now works on my system. I suspect this happened because my PKG_SITES is set to ftp:.../i386/packages-6-stable/. Most likely, some library was updated, and this did the trick. Wish I knew precisely which update that was. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting
Joe Vender wrote: One last question. How do I get FBSD to completely power off my computer when I shut down, both from KDE and from console? When I shutdown, it just gets to the system halted, press any key to reboot prompt and doesn't completely power off. In slackware, all I have to do is uncomment the modprobe apm line in rc.modules. You issue the command shutdown -p now. This should work with any BIOS that has apm or acpi, as far as I know. As Derek says, you have an IRQ conflict that needs to be resolved. Afraid I don't remember much about that. When I first installed FreeBSD (seven years ago), I had to settle several such conflicts, but I seem to recall that it was fairly easy. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Line-spacing and leading in X
This question drew exactly zero responses on another forum, so I try the experts here: By using Firefox and Thunderbird on both Windows and FreeBSD I have noticed that line-spacing is slightly denser on Windows. Lines are one or two pixels taller on FreeBSD, which probably means that leading is included. Now, leading as part of line-spacing can be turned on and off in X by setting minspace to false or true, respectively. This can be done in ~/.fonts.conf or by including minspace in commands like this one: xterm -fa monospace-11:minspace=true My problem is, this does not work. Initially, I suspected that GTK might have something to with it. However, when I installed 6.2-RELEASE - which I did from scratch - I took care to run the test above with only base and X, and it still did not work. Whatever the reason, Xorg itself seems to be responsible. Anyone know more about this? And, whether in X or GTK, is there a way to control line-spacing? It looks like Gnome adjusts some parameter that has to do with the vertical spacing of icons (in the folder and thread panes of Thunderbird.) I suppose this and other parameters could be adjusted in my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 if only I knew what they are called. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder
Andrew Gould wrote: [snip] Honestly, Andrew. Please try to use a style where on or more indicates quoting level. It is 100% foggy who wrote what in the parent message of this post. TIA. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail etiquette
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Top posting is only one issue. Others of great importance are trimming your posts, not breaking the lines into tiny fragments, and not writing one-line paragraphs. Your .sig is a good example of things that people should remove from replies. Hmmm. While I can agree with the other points, I don't see much wrong with one-line paragraphs. I can think of several situations where one-line paragraphs are perfectly okay. You may have some special cases in mind. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gsfonts in X ?
Firas Kraiem wrote: Hello everyone ! My problem is that fonts look really horrible in most websites (see screenshot at the end of this message). The same problem occured in various Linux distros and was solved by installing the gsfonts-x11 package. How would I do the same in FBSD ? The print/gsfonts port is installed but I guess I need to do something else. Any ideas ? For my own part I simply turn off anti-aliasing: ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM fonts.dtd fontconfig match target=font edit mode=assign name=antialias boolfalse/bool /edit /match /fontconfig However, one person wrote to me and said that it worked better for him to turn off the use of color for sub-pixel anti-aliasing, like this: ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM fonts.dtd fontconfig match target=font edit mode=assign name=rgba constnone/const /edit /match /fontconfig Maybe one of these will work for you if you put it in ~/.fonts.conf. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?
Robert Huff wrote: (Personally, I think there are also points where the correct user behavior is not intuitively obvious.) An understatement. There are situations where sysinstall is positively quixotic. I don't mind the simple character-based interface. But I do find it worrying that I sometimes cannot know what sysinstall will do next. In any case, this is bad publicity for FreeBSD since sysinstall is the first bit of FreeBSD they encounter. Time and again we hear rumors about a new installation program. Is it actually nearing completion? Keep in mind that many of us do not even consider getting involved as long as we believe a better program is under way. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation
mato wrote: Do you think I could supply raw disk device directly to Qemu ?? As I understand it, you HAVE TO use a raw disk for qemu at present, though I cannot recall the reason for it right now. But this will not help you make use of existing Windows (XP) installation. I believe the OS itself, at the very least, must be installed by qemu - correct me if I am wrong. In any case, the following instructions work for me: http://www.freebsdforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44204 -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/8/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x windows. What do I need that NVidia FreeBSD driver for? 3d Another reason to use it is monitor calibration. My GeForce worked fine without the Nvidia driver. However, for photo editing I wanted to control brightness, contrast and gamma. Running nvidia-settings seemed to be the simplest and best way to accomplish that. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wine on FreeBSD RELENG_6
Christopher Illies wrote: Is anyone successfully running wine emulating Windows 98 on FreeBSD 6.X? Which programs are you trying to run? I think you have a greater chance of getting responses if you tell us that. I know that wine used to have problems on FreeBSD and I never got it to run properly with some programs. I now tried again, but without success. Before going through the trouble of trouble-shooting and posting error messages I would like to know whether it is worth my while. I have had some problems with wine myself, and I find the documentation and good advice offered lacking in many respects. But I want to tell you that things seem to improve. I have just compiled wine 0.9.24, and for the first time it now runs my favorite photo editor without a hitch. I believe it very much depends on what programs you are trying to run and the effort you put into it. Besides, what is the alternative? I have tried qemu, and I think it is not the right thing for my purposes - I would rather dual boot Windows as long as I can make a handful of frequently used programs run under wine. But this is obviously a very personal choice - we all have different needs. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: things-Mail: update
Rem P Roberti wrote: Rem P Roberti wrote: Boy, I'm glad somebody got embedded URL's to work. I have been trying for some time now, and still can't get them to work. Firefox is named in KDE, but still no joy. I'm getting tired of cutting and pasting :) Have you tried setting network.protocol-handler.app.http in Thunderbird to /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox? I couldn't find that string in Thunderbird's about:config. If you don't find the string, just create it. Right-click in the config pane and use New - String to enter the name and its value. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: things-Mail: update
Vince wrote: If you have the latest Firefox port (firefox-1.5.0.7_1,1) firefox is now in /usr/local/bin/firefox This threw me a bit as there was nothing in UPDATING about it (unless the GTK/GNOME announcement covered it.) try a `which firefox` from a command prompt to check this. Well, on my system it's still in /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox. Maybe that depends on whether you use a port or package, or something else. In any case, it's certainly good to be aware of it. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: things-Mail: update
Rem P Roberti wrote: Boy, I'm glad somebody got embedded URL's to work. I have been trying for some time now, and still can't get them to work. Firefox is named in KDE, but still no joy. I'm getting tired of cutting and pasting :) Have you tried setting network.protocol-handler.app.http in Thunderbird to /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox? Anyway, I don't run KDE, and maybe I don't pick up what is your problem. But, once we're at it, I would like to mention my own problem. I click a link in Thunderbird, and Firefox picks it up. However, focus is not passed to Firefox - the Firefox entry on the taskbar just blinks without the corresponding window being raised. Any solution, please? -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia on CURRENT...
Anders Troback wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:14:38 +0200 Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anders Troback wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:25:05 +0400 Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have it working fine on my current. Have you disabled agp in kernel config? No, should I? Running on GENERIC! It's a little easier to try it out by putting this line into /boot/device.hints: hint.agp.0.disabled=1 No, no luck! This is the error from startx: NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or directory). (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure (EE) NVIDIA(0): that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and (EE) NVIDIA(0): that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Please consult the NVIDIA README for details. (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. And yes there is a Nvidia GPU in my system (at least when I'm running 6.2):-) Hmmm. What about dmesg? Does it report the device nvidia0 or anything else with nvidia chips? And are you running nvidia-settings? The port nvidia-xconfig solved some problems for me by modifying my xorg.conf. And I solved a couple of other problems by browsing the Nvidia knowledgebase: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php (Though, I am running 6.1-RELEASE.) -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice
Laurens Timmermans wrote: Hi, I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with FreeBSD and Windows XP. I have tried this before using NTLOADER on my desktop-pc (by following the directions in the faq) and it works like a charm, but not on my laptop... I installed FreeBSD, copied /boot/boot1 to a usb-stick, set my windows-slice active and added a freebsd-entry to my boot.ini. When i boot i get the ntloader-menu, it boots xp just fine but when i choose FreeBSD i get invalid slice. I can get back into my freebsd-install by setting it's slice active again (using boot/rescue-cd). I am using FreeBSD 6.2-beta2 (because of support for my pentium M). I found a thread that may or may not be relevant - this message in particular: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2005-09/0177.html Start of thread: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2005-09/0079.html -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia on CURRENT...
Anders Troback wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:25:05 +0400 Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have it working fine on my current. Have you disabled agp in kernel config? No, should I? Running on GENERIC! It's a little easier to try it out by putting this line into /boot/device.hints: hint.agp.0.disabled=1 -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Loader
Nathan Lasseter wrote: Hi I tried to install FreeBSD, but Windows hogs all the drivespace. Now after aborting the installer, every time I power on, the Loader appears. How do I remove it? It sounds like the installer got far enough to change the active slice (partition). If so, you might be able to correct it by using fdisk -a from the boot menu of your current installation or by means of the CD. Or it might be easier to use your Windows CD, if there is such an option there. Or you might have an old DOS boot diskette with FDISK on it. You will normally have to remove any boot sector protection in the BIOS in order to change the active slice (partition). -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FREEBSD cross-platform compatibility
Tom wrote: Question: Is there an alternate-platform emulator available? Sounds like you have already tried an emulator that did not work. Which one did you try? Have you tried Wine or Win4BSD? I have the same problem myself, so I am interested in your experiences. I have some programs that have no substitute available - and are Windows - only applications. The developer right now says that they won't work on porting to other OSs for the foreseeable future - so Linux and FreeBSD - and Mac OS, for that matter - are left hanging. Frankly, this one program in particular is the major reason I'm still running Windows at all. So, either a Windows emulator, or some way to run this program in a non-Windows environment Do tell us precisely which applications you are talking about. TIA. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?
William Tracy wrote: [snip] So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. What's so compelling about Linux? At least, tell us which distribution you are talking about and how and why FreeBSD does not seem very impressive in comparison. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting started with FreeBSD
cothrige wrote: [snip] However, after reading you post, I am thinking that the packages are only available for the snapshots labelled RELEASE. Am I right? All updates and changes made in between one release and the next are via sources. Would that be accurate? I wondered about the same thing some time ago. I was told by one of the gurus to try packages-6-stable, which would most likely work with 6.1-RELEASE. So I tried to fetch the latest Firefox in this way: pkg_add [no line break] ftp://ftp.mirror.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/www/firefox-1.5.0.7,1.tbz Seems to work fine. However, I tried to do the same thing with Thunderbird (mail/thunderbird-1.5.0.7.tbz), and then I got many warnings about libraries not being up to date. Could I have done it differently to get dependencies updated as well? Just a few extra words in section 4.4.1 the handbook could probably have cleared this up. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting started with FreeBSD
cothrige wrote: * Tore Lund ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I wondered about the same thing some time ago. I was told by one of the gurus to try packages-6-stable, which would most likely work with 6.1-RELEASE. So I tried to fetch the latest Firefox in this way: pkg_add [no line break] ftp://ftp.mirror.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/www/firefox-1.5.0.7,1.tbz Doesn't this seem a tad clunky and unfinished? [snip] Agree completely, but as far as I can tell, them's the terms... Let's hope that someone else will step in here and elucidate the matter. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: requesting help to make sound work on thin/diskless client
Raymond Gibson wrote: Hello, I'm looking for help. I built a thin/diskless client that I boot via etherboot. After power up the client boots and gives me a login prompt. At that time I enter 'root' and I am presented with a command prompt. I then enter 'X -query server ip' and X starts and it works as expected. I would like to add sound. Unfortunately, I can't find documentation describing this process. So, could someone explain to me how to configure the client/server? My server is FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. BTW: I installed an ISA soundblaster sound and compiled these lines into my kernel. The kernel detects the sound card during boot-up. # Add the generic audio driver device sound device snd_sbc device snd_sb16 It's unclear to me what does not work for you. Have you tried to enter the lines in device.hints suggested in section 7.2.1.1 of the handbook, which uses the devices you mention as an example? And if that does not work, does kldload snd_driver return any useful information? -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
