Re: Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet
Sorry for typo. 0x140b is the product ID under vendor Huawei (vendor id 0x12d1). Regards, Manish Jain +91-88064-38388 On 30-Jun-13 23:49, Manish Jain wrote: EC156 is what the label on the modem says, which is the response given by AT+GMM. 0x140b is the chipset. Regards, Manish Jain +91-88064-38388 On 30-Jun-13 22:02, Odhiambo Washington wrote: What model of Huawei is the modem? E-what?? On 30 June 2013 19:23, Manish Jain mailto:bourne.ident...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Hello Odhiambo/All, I seem to have made some progress but final success still eludes me. With modem symlinked to cuaU0.0, this is what happens is minicom : AT^GETPORTMODE ^GETPORTMODE:TYPE:EV-DO:__Qualcomm,MDM:0,DIAG:1,PCUI:2,__CDROM:3 OK AT^SETPORT="A1;1,2,3" COMMAND NOT SUPPORT AT^GETPORTMODE succeeds, but with AT^U2DIAG/AT^SETPORT I get "COMMAND NOT SUPPORT". So how to disable the CD mode and make FreeBSD treat it purely as a modem ? Some of the commands the modem supports (as reported by Windows' device manager) are as follows : ATQ0V1E0 - OK AT+GMM - EC156 AT+FCLASS=? - 0,2.0 AT#CLS=? - COMMAND NOT SUPPORT ^HRSSILVL:80 ^HDRRSSI: 31 ^HRSSILVL:60 ^HDRRSSI: 31 Thanks for any help. Regards, Manish Jain +91-88064-38388 On 30-Jun-13 19:41, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi Manish, If you have a Windows PC, use putty.exe and point the config to the COM port on which the modem is detected to be attached to. That's how I do it, unfortunately. On 30 June 2013 16:51, Manish Jain mailto:bourne.ident...@hotmail.com> <mailto:bourne.identity@__hotmail.com <mailto:bourne.ident...@hotmail.com>>> wrote: Hello Odhiambo/All, I installed and ran minicom. There are 2 devices which are possible candidates as the modem : cuaU0.0 and cuaU0.2 I symlinked modem to each of the 2 devices and ran minicom. With both devices, the AT command returns OK, but AT^U2DIAG=0 returns COMMAND NOT SUPPORT Any tips on what to do next ? Thanks & Regards, Manish Jain +91-88064-38388 On 30-Jun-13 17:30, freebsd-questions-request@__fr__eebsd.org <http://freebsd.org> <mailto:freebsd-questions-__requ...@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org>> wrote: Send freebsd-questions mailing list submissions to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <mailto:freebsd-questions@__freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions <http://lists.freebsd.org/__mailman/listinfo/freebsd-__questions> <http://lists.freebsd.org/__mailman/listinfo/freebsd-__questions <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to freebsd-questions-request@__fr__eebsd.org <http://freebsd.org> <mailto:freebsd-questions-__requ...@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org>> You can reach the person managing the list at freebsd-questions-owner@__free__bsd.org <http://freebsd.org> <mailto:freebsd-questions-__ow...@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions-ow...@freebsd.org>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of freebsd-questions digest..." Today's Topics: 1. question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" (Rev Herbert Miller) 2. Re: question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" (Polytropon) 3. ALT key problem with Virtual Box? (Scott Ballantyne) 4. Re: ALT key problem with Virtual Box? (Polytropon) 5. Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet (Manish Jain) 6. Re: ALT key problem with Virtual Box? (Scott Ballantyne) 7. Baker Invites freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.
Re: Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet
EC156 is what the label on the modem says, which is the response given by AT+GMM. 0x140b is the chipset. Regards, Manish Jain +91-88064-38388 On 30-Jun-13 22:02, Odhiambo Washington wrote: What model of Huawei is the modem? E-what?? On 30 June 2013 19:23, Manish Jain mailto:bourne.ident...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Hello Odhiambo/All, I seem to have made some progress but final success still eludes me. With modem symlinked to cuaU0.0, this is what happens is minicom : AT^GETPORTMODE ^GETPORTMODE:TYPE:EV-DO:__Qualcomm,MDM:0,DIAG:1,PCUI:2,__CDROM:3 OK AT^SETPORT="A1;1,2,3" COMMAND NOT SUPPORT AT^GETPORTMODE succeeds, but with AT^U2DIAG/AT^SETPORT I get "COMMAND NOT SUPPORT". So how to disable the CD mode and make FreeBSD treat it purely as a modem ? Some of the commands the modem supports (as reported by Windows' device manager) are as follows : ATQ0V1E0 - OK AT+GMM - EC156 AT+FCLASS=? - 0,2.0 AT#CLS=? - COMMAND NOT SUPPORT ^HRSSILVL:80 ^HDRRSSI: 31 ^HRSSILVL:60 ^HDRRSSI: 31 Thanks for any help. Regards, Manish Jain +91-88064-38388 On 30-Jun-13 19:41, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi Manish, If you have a Windows PC, use putty.exe and point the config to the COM port on which the modem is detected to be attached to. That's how I do it, unfortunately. On 30 June 2013 16:51, Manish Jain mailto:bourne.ident...@hotmail.com> <mailto:bourne.identity@__hotmail.com <mailto:bourne.ident...@hotmail.com>>> wrote: Hello Odhiambo/All, I installed and ran minicom. There are 2 devices which are possible candidates as the modem : cuaU0.0 and cuaU0.2 I symlinked modem to each of the 2 devices and ran minicom. With both devices, the AT command returns OK, but AT^U2DIAG=0 returns COMMAND NOT SUPPORT Any tips on what to do next ? Thanks & Regards, Manish Jain +91-88064-38388 On 30-Jun-13 17:30, freebsd-questions-request@__fr__eebsd.org <http://freebsd.org> <mailto:freebsd-questions-__requ...@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org>> wrote: Send freebsd-questions mailing list submissions to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <mailto:freebsd-questions@__freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions <http://lists.freebsd.org/__mailman/listinfo/freebsd-__questions> <http://lists.freebsd.org/__mailman/listinfo/freebsd-__questions <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to freebsd-questions-request@__fr__eebsd.org <http://freebsd.org> <mailto:freebsd-questions-__requ...@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org>> You can reach the person managing the list at freebsd-questions-owner@__free__bsd.org <http://freebsd.org> <mailto:freebsd-questions-__ow...@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions-ow...@freebsd.org>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of freebsd-questions digest..." Today's Topics: 1. question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" (Rev Herbert Miller) 2. Re: question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" (Polytropon) 3. ALT key problem with Virtual Box? (Scott Ballantyne) 4. Re: ALT key problem with Virtual Box? (Polytropon) 5. Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet (Manish Jain) 6. Re: ALT key problem with Virtual Box? (Scott Ballantyne) 7. Baker Invites freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <mailto:freebsd-questions@__freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>> to spend holiday
Re: Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet
Hello Odhiambo/All, I seem to have made some progress but final success still eludes me. With modem symlinked to cuaU0.0, this is what happens is minicom : AT^GETPORTMODE ^GETPORTMODE:TYPE:EV-DO:Qualcomm,MDM:0,DIAG:1,PCUI:2,CDROM:3 OK AT^SETPORT="A1;1,2,3" COMMAND NOT SUPPORT AT^GETPORTMODE succeeds, but with AT^U2DIAG/AT^SETPORT I get "COMMAND NOT SUPPORT". So how to disable the CD mode and make FreeBSD treat it purely as a modem ? Some of the commands the modem supports (as reported by Windows' device manager) are as follows : ATQ0V1E0 - OK AT+GMM - EC156 AT+FCLASS=? - 0,2.0 AT#CLS=? - COMMAND NOT SUPPORT ^HRSSILVL:80 ^HDRRSSI: 31 ^HRSSILVL:60 ^HDRRSSI: 31 Thanks for any help. Regards, Manish Jain +91-88064-38388 On 30-Jun-13 19:41, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi Manish, If you have a Windows PC, use putty.exe and point the config to the COM port on which the modem is detected to be attached to. That's how I do it, unfortunately. On 30 June 2013 16:51, Manish Jain mailto:bourne.ident...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Hello Odhiambo/All, I installed and ran minicom. There are 2 devices which are possible candidates as the modem : cuaU0.0 and cuaU0.2 I symlinked modem to each of the 2 devices and ran minicom. With both devices, the AT command returns OK, but AT^U2DIAG=0 returns COMMAND NOT SUPPORT Any tips on what to do next ? Thanks & Regards, Manish Jain +91-88064-38388 On 30-Jun-13 17:30, freebsd-questions-request@__freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org> wrote: Send freebsd-questions mailing list submissions to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.freebsd.org/__mailman/listinfo/freebsd-__questions <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to freebsd-questions-request@__freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org> You can reach the person managing the list at freebsd-questions-owner@__freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions-ow...@freebsd.org> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of freebsd-questions digest..." Today's Topics: 1. question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" (Rev Herbert Miller) 2. Re: question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" (Polytropon) 3. ALT key problem with Virtual Box? (Scott Ballantyne) 4. Re: ALT key problem with Virtual Box? (Polytropon) 5. Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet (Manish Jain) 6. Re: ALT key problem with Virtual Box? (Scott Ballantyne) 7. Baker Invites freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> to spend holiday in Goa (John Baker) 8. (Upali Kulasekara) 9. Re: your mail (Daniel Feenberg) 10. RE: Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet (Manish Jain) 11. Re: Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet (Odhiambo Washington) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:48:38 -0400 From: Rev Herbert Miller mailto:herbertmil...@me.com>> To: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" Message-ID: <650f01ca-f62f-49e7-957f-__9bfdc06d6...@me.com <mailto:650f01ca-f62f-49e7-957f-9bfdc06d6...@me.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I was trying to use the content management system for our website. I needed to restart on terminal but I keep coming up with the following error: I don't know programing at all, so don't know if this is something I can fix. Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program root@psumc:/usr/local/tomcat5.__5 # bin/startup.sh Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined At least one of these environment variable is needed to ru
Re: Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet
Hello Odhiambo/All, I installed and ran minicom. There are 2 devices which are possible candidates as the modem : cuaU0.0 and cuaU0.2 I symlinked modem to each of the 2 devices and ran minicom. With both devices, the AT command returns OK, but AT^U2DIAG=0 returns COMMAND NOT SUPPORT Any tips on what to do next ? Thanks & Regards, Manish Jain +91-88064-38388 On 30-Jun-13 17:30, freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: Send freebsd-questions mailing list submissions to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org You can reach the person managing the list at freebsd-questions-ow...@freebsd.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of freebsd-questions digest..." Today's Topics: 1. question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" (Rev Herbert Miller) 2. Re: question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" (Polytropon) 3. ALT key problem with Virtual Box? (Scott Ballantyne) 4. Re: ALT key problem with Virtual Box? (Polytropon) 5. Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet (Manish Jain) 6. Re: ALT key problem with Virtual Box? (Scott Ballantyne) 7. Baker Invites freebsd-questions@freebsd.org to spend holiday in Goa (John Baker) 8. (Upali Kulasekara) 9. Re: your mail (Daniel Feenberg) 10. RE: Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet (Manish Jain) 11. Re: Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet (Odhiambo Washington) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:48:38 -0400 From: Rev Herbert Miller To: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" Message-ID: <650f01ca-f62f-49e7-957f-9bfdc06d6...@me.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I was trying to use the content management system for our website. I needed to restart on terminal but I keep coming up with the following error: I don't know programing at all, so don't know if this is something I can fix. Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program root@psumc:/usr/local/tomcat5.5 # bin/startup.sh Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program root@psumc:/usr/local/tomcat5.5 # su -c 'killall -9 java' -- Message: 2 Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 17:58:31 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Rev Herbert Miller Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" Message-ID: <20130629175831.b2bf7fcb.free...@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:48:38 -0400, Rev Herbert Miller wrote: I was trying to use the content management system for our website. I needed to restart on terminal but I keep coming up with the following error: I don't know programing at all, so don't know if this is something I can fix. In worst case, notify your system administrator. Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" This kind of error often indicates an incomplete system update were libraries are "out of date" or missing. What way of system update has been performed? root@psumc:/usr/local/tomcat5.5 # bin/startup.sh Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program That can be a side effect, maybe some accidentally overwritten configuration file or a program that's unable to run due to a missing dependency? What happens if you manually define those variables to the proper valies and try again, e. g. # setenv JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/ # setenv JRE_HOME=/usr/local/ # bin/startup,sh Does this produce a different result? root@psumc:/usr/local/tomcat5.5 # su -c 'killall -9 java' That command doesn't make sense. The prompt indicates that you are already root. The -c parameter for the su command is missing an argument, the class". See "man su" for details, no programming knowledge required. ;-) ___ 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: Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet
Thanks for your help. But before I attempt disabling the cdrom, I would like to mention that I can already see the following devices (with corresponding .init and .lock files) : cuaU0.0 cuaU0.1 cuaU0.2 cuau0 I am almost certain that cuaU0.0 is the modem. I will try disabling the the cdrom and then switch mode. Thanks again & Regards Manish Jain From: odhia...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:45:11 +0300 Subject: Re: Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet To: bourne.ident...@hotmail.com Hi Manish, I seem to have missed the name - Huawei, sorry for that. Anyway, this should be easy to resolve - I suppose. With the virtual cd-rom (da0) presenting itself, FreeBSD will assume the modem is simply a mass storage device and leave it at that. You need to disable the virtual cd-rom in order to use the modem. Use Hyperterminal or putty or minicom (does it still exist?) to disable it. Here are the AT commands to do that: 1. To disable; AT^U2DIAG=0 2. To re-enable: AT^U2DIAG=1 After disabling, you should be able to see a device node for the modem - /dev/cuaU0.0 or something. They may be two devices or three. One of them is the modem And here is a ppp.conf which you can use - just change the APN (safaricom) to your provider's APN, change authname/authkey and also change the device to what you'll have gotten from /dev/ Hope that helps! u3g: set device /dev/cuaU0.0 set server /var/run/3g-internet "" 0177 set speed 921600 set timeout 0 set authname saf set authkey data set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sTIMEOUT 2 \ \"\" \ AT OK-AT-OK \ AT+CFUN=1 OK-AT-OK \ AT+CMEE=2 OK-AT-OK \ AT+CSQ OK \ AT+CGDCONT=1,\\\"IP\\\",\\\"safaricom\\\" OK \ ATD*99# CONNECT" set crtscts on disable vjcomp disable acfcomp disable deflate disable deflate24 disable pred1 disable protocomp disable mppe disable ipv6cp disable lqr disable echo #nat enable yes enable dns resolv writable set dns 8.8.8.8 set ifaddr 10.1.0.2/0 10.1.0.1/0 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR # See ppp.link* On 30 June 2013 01:00, Manish Jain wrote: Hi, I thought the manufacturer name was mentioned in the original message : Huawei (0x12d1). Underneath is an extract from /var/log/messages : Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: u3g0: Found 3 ports. Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: umass0: on usbus1 Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0 Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI sense: UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed) Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: cd0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: cd0: 1.000MB/s transfers Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: cd0: cd present [52352 x 2048 byte records] Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 1 Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers Jun 29 23:03:57 bourne kernel: da0: 7580MB (15523840 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 966C) Regards, Manish Jain +91-88064-38388 On 30-Jun-13 00:41, Odhiambo Washington wrote: What is the manufacturer/model of the modem? Is it detected by FreeBSD? Please show the /var/log/message entry for it. I have never heard of usb_modeswitch.conf in FreeBSD! On 29 June 2013 20:53, Manish Jain mailto:bourne.ident...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Hello All, I have a a Huawei USB modem (product id 0x140b) which is connected to my PC. I downloaded and installed Draisberghof's usb_modeswitch. The following are the contents of my /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf : DisableSwitching=0 EnableLogging=1 DefaultVendor=0x12d1 DefaultProduct=0x140b TargetVendor=0x12d1 TargetProduct=0x1446 CheckSuccess=20 MessageEndpoint=0x0f MessageContent="__555342431234567800__1106200100__00" When I run usb_modeswitch -c /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf, I get the following message : Looking for target devices ... No devices in target mode or class found Looking for default devices ... found matching product ID adding device Found device in default mode, class or configuration (1) Accessing device 010 on bus 000 ... Getting the current device configuration ... OK, got
Problems getting my Huawei 0x140b USB modem to speak to internet
Hello All, I have a a Huawei USB modem (product id 0x140b) which is connected to my PC. I downloaded and installed Draisberghof's usb_modeswitch. The following are the contents of my /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf : DisableSwitching=0 EnableLogging=1 DefaultVendor=0x12d1 DefaultProduct=0x140b TargetVendor=0x12d1 TargetProduct=0x1446 CheckSuccess=20 MessageEndpoint=0x0f MessageContent="55534243123456780011062001" When I run usb_modeswitch -c /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf, I get the following message : Looking for target devices ... No devices in target mode or class found Looking for default devices ... found matching product ID adding device Found device in default mode, class or configuration (1) Accessing device 010 on bus 000 ... Getting the current device configuration ... OK, got current device configuration (1) Using interface number 0 Error: can't use storage command in MessageContent with interface 0; interface class is 255, should be 8. Aborting. So my FreeBSD box cannot speak to internet and I have boot MS-DOG for this holy purpose. Can someone please suggest a remedy ? Thanks in advance & -- Regards, Manish Jain +91-88064-38388 ___ 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: Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library
On 16-Dec-12 23:12, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 16/12/2012 17:22, Manish Jain wrote: Under /lib I have both versions - shared (libxyz.so.1) as well as static (libxyz.a) - of a library. How do I tell make to link to the static version, not the shared one ? The next obvious question is how to do the vice versa - tell make to link to the shared version, not the static one. Add -static to the ld command line to produce a staticly linked binary: this forbids ld(1) from doing any dynamic linking. Otherwise ld will default to dynamic linking, but fall back to linking staticly against libraries where there isn't a dynamic shared object available. Actually, there are about 4 different linker flags you could use that mean 'produce a staticly linked binary.' They don't have any different effect; the reason they exist is for historic compatibility with versions of ld(1) from many different sources. It's also an all-or-nothing option. If you wanted to use static linkage for one particular library out of all the libraries used by your program, then you'ld need a very different command line. But that, as they say, is left as an exercise for the student. Cheers, Matthew Thanks Matthew. That saved me a lot of time, and the man page for ld (as suggested by Polytropon) is not as informative on this particular subject as your response. -- Regards, Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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"
Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library
Hello All, This is not a question strictly on FreeBSD. But since freebsd-questions is a lot quicker with its dependable responses, I decided to post my question here. Under /lib I have both versions - shared (libxyz.so.1) as well as static (libxyz.a) - of a library. How do I tell make to link to the static version, not the shared one ? The next obvious question is how to do the vice versa - tell make to link to the shared version, not the static one. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you & -- Regards, Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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"
Help needed : acroread needs libcanberra-gtk-module.so
Hello, This is the first time I am seeing a problem with running Acrobat Reader (on a fresh FreeBSD-8.3-i386 installation) : /root # Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomesegvhandler": libgnomesegvhandler.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [1]+ Exit 1 acroread8 Running the linux version of Opera is even more disastrous : /root # linux-opera linux-opera linux-opera-widget-manager /root # linux-opera & [1] 2984 /root # opera [crash logging]: CRASH!! /usr/local/lib/linux-opera/opera got signal SIGSEGV at address 0841AA43 Can someone please help me out ? -- Regards, Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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"
Problem with installing coreutils port
Hello All, I recently had to re-install FreeBSD on my system. I installed FreeBSD-8.3-i386 and successfully managed to install all ports except one - the sysutils/coreutils port. Underneath is the error I get : gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/coreutils/work/coreutils-8.20' CCLD src/factor lib/libcoreutils.a(striconv.o)(.text+0x68): In function `str_cd_iconv': : undefined reference to `libiconv' lib/libcoreutils.a(striconv.o)(.text+0xfa): In function `str_cd_iconv': : undefined reference to `libiconv' lib/libcoreutils.a(striconv.o)(.text+0x180): In function `str_cd_iconv': : undefined reference to `libiconv' lib/libcoreutils.a(striconv.o)(.text+0x26d): In function `str_iconv': : undefined reference to `libiconv_open' lib/libcoreutils.a(striconv.o)(.text+0x290): In function `str_iconv': : undefined reference to `libiconv_close' lib/libcoreutils.a(striconv.o)(.text+0x2bd): In function `str_iconv': : undefined reference to `libiconv_close' lib/libcoreutils.a(striconv.o)(.text+0x303): In function `mem_cd_iconv': : undefined reference to `libiconv' lib/libcoreutils.a(striconv.o)(.text+0x35e): In function `mem_cd_iconv': : undefined reference to `libiconv' lib/libcoreutils.a(striconv.o)(.text+0x3af): In function `mem_cd_iconv': : undefined reference to `libiconv' lib/libcoreutils.a(striconv.o)(.text+0x41b): In function `mem_cd_iconv': : undefined reference to `libiconv' lib/libcoreutils.a(striconv.o)(.text+0x458): In function `mem_cd_iconv': : undefined reference to `libiconv' lib/libcoreutils.a(striconv.o)(.text+0x4d2): more undefined references to `libiconv' follow gmake[2]: *** [src/factor] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/coreutils/work/coreutils-8.20' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/coreutils/work/coreutils-8.20' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/coreutils. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/coreutils. I tried deinstall followed by reinstall of the iconv port. But even that does not solve the problem listed above. Can anyone please point out what might be the error and any possible solution ? I personally think the port is either broken, or the Makefile does not use the correct link options. Thank you & -- Regards, Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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: Facing a strange problem with Boot Manager
On 12-Nov-12 02:35, Robert Bonomi wrote: Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:09:09 +0530 From: Manish Jain Subject: Facing a strange problem with Boot Manager When all installation work finished, FreeBSD would boot when I press F2 but pressing F1 would fail to boot XP with the error : "A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot" Can anybody suggest what might be the problem and any possible solution ? No help on a fix. i'm fighting that exact problem on a FreeBSD 8.3 install on a 2nd sata drive with xp pro on the 1st drive. installed strictly to the 2nd drive -- would select in bios which to boot from. booting fbsd works fine. attempting to boot th XP drive gives the above error. Apparently the 8.3 install trashed something on the XP drive. :(( I am using FreeBSD 8.3 too (i386). When XP failed to boot, a wrote out a new boot sector to drive C: with recovery console's fixboot command, but it did not make a difference. Interestingly, when all seemed lost, I even ran fixmbr, which complained that it could not fix much as my system seemed "to be using a non-standard MBR". Never saw this problem before. Has the Boot Manager code/behavior changed in 8.X ? -- Regards, Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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"
Facing a strange problem with Boot Manager
Hi, I have never had a problem with dual-booting Win XP and FreeBSD before. Generally, I install XP first and FreeBSD second, putting the Boot Manager to the MBR. Recently, my hard disk started wobbling and I had to replace it with a new Western Digital SATA drive. When all installation work finished, FreeBSD would boot when I press F2 but pressing F1 would fail to boot XP with the error : "A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot" Can anybody suggest what might be the problem and any possible solution ? For the current time, I reversed the installation order and installed FreeBSD first. I saved the FFS slice's boot sector on a USB pendrive and then installed XP. So, for the time being, I have to use the Windows bootloader to boot FreeBSD by adding an entry for it boot.ini My disk layout is as follows : ad8s1 - NTFS ad8s2 - FFS ad8s3 - Extended (with ad8s5/NTFS as the only logical drive within it) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you & -- Regards, Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk
Hello Leslie, The short answer is No. And it would need more than a miracle to salvage the situation if the partition information is lost. Sorry if I broke your hopes. But to look at the brighter side of things : 1) You would never have learnt so quickly so much about Windows/FreeBSD/things to do/things not to do had you not run chkdsk 2) Niue is a beautiful country with a great landscape to cheer up even the most regrettable scenario Regards Manish Jain +91-99620-10329 On 05-Nov-12 14:27, Leslie Jensen wrote: Manish Jain skrev 2012-11-04 12:37: Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 16:41:45 +0530 From: bourne.ident...@hotmail.com To: les...@eskk.nu CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen) On 04-Nov-12 13:17, Leslie Jensen wrote: Manish Jain 2012-11-02 19:18: 1) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD, enter the slice editor and change the type of your FreeBSD slice back to 165. Do not press Q. Press W instead. Conform with Yes to the warning, and then press Ctrl+Alt+Del to abort the installation. 2) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD again, and run boot0cfg -B in an emergency shell. I hope my message sounds less cryptic now. I personally don't have anything against running chkdsk or fixmbr, AS LONG AS I have backed up the important sectors. Regards Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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" Just in case you are not aware how to change the filesystem type in the slice editor, highlight your FreeBSD slice and press T. Make sure you enter 165 as the filesystem type, and then press W and confirm the change. Then press Ctrl+Alt+Del and reboot. Regards Manish Jain bourne.iden...@hotmail.com ___ 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" Thank you for the advise you have provided. I did as suggested and it was no problem at all. Unfortunately it seems as if the partitions was destroyed as well. When I look at the slice with the label editor it's empty. So chkdsk did a thorough change unfortunately. Can you think of anything that would bring back the partitions? /Leslie ___ 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: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)
> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 16:41:45 +0530 > From: bourne.ident...@hotmail.com > To: les...@eskk.nu > CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen) > > > On 04-Nov-12 13:17, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > > > > Manish Jain 2012-11-02 19:18: > > > >> 1) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD, enter the slice editor and > >> change the type of your FreeBSD slice back to 165. Do not press Q. > >> Press W instead. Conform with Yes to the warning, and then press > >> Ctrl+Alt+Del to abort the installation. > >> > >> 2) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD again, and run boot0cfg -B in an > >> emergency shell. > >> > >> > >> > >> I hope my message sounds less cryptic now. I personally don't have > >> anything against running chkdsk or fixmbr, AS LONG AS I have backed > >> up the important sectors. > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> Manish Jain > >> bourne.ident...@hotmail.com > >> > >> ___ > >> 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" > > > > > > I've attached the disk to a running Freebsd system 8.3. > > > > Which program do you reefer to when you write slice editor? > > > > I do not need to be able to boot from the disk. I just need to be able > > to read it and copy my /home to another disk. > > > > Thanks > > > > /Leslie > > > > > Hello Leslie, > > I think you are unclear with FreeBSD terminology. What Windows calls > primary partitions are called slices in FreeBSD. You can have a maximum > of 4 slices per disk, as I had mentioned earlier. One of the slices may > optionally be marked as what Windows calls an extended partition. The > extended partition can be broken up into many partitions ("logical > drives" in Windows terminology). Your C: drive is a slice in FreeBSD > terms. If you have a D: drive too, that - in all likelihood - is a > partition in FreeBSD terminology. > > FreeBSD's terminology is in general much clearer and a lot more mature > than you would find on any other OS, particularly Windows. > > The first step that you have to perform when installing FreeBSD is to > enter the slice editor and create a slice for FreeBSD. When you press on > "Begin a standard installation", the slice editor is the first > application that is automatically presented to you. > > FreeBSD uses the term partition to refer to the divisions it creates > inside its slice for the /, /usr, /var, /tmp filesystems. > > Now I fail to understand what you mean by a "running FreeBSD system". I > thought your FreeBSD installation had been rendered unbootable by > chkdsk. If you can indeed boot into FreeBSD successfully, then you > shouldn't be having any problem copying out whatever data you want. > > The steps I had suggested were meant to make your FreeBSD installation > bootable. As long as your FreeBSD slice is marked as NTFS (filesystem ID > 7) instead of FFS (filesystem ID 165) in the MBR, no application or OS > can read any data from that slice, at least AFAIK. > > > Regards > > Manish Jain > +91-99620-10329 Just in case you are not aware how to change the filesystem type in the slice editor, highlight your FreeBSD slice and press T. Make sure you enter 165 as the filesystem type, and then press W and confirm the change. Then press Ctrl+Alt+Del and reboot. Regards Manish Jain bourne.iden...@hotmail.com ___ 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: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)
On 04-Nov-12 13:17, Leslie Jensen wrote: Manish Jain 2012-11-02 19:18: 1) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD, enter the slice editor and change the type of your FreeBSD slice back to 165. Do not press Q. Press W instead. Conform with Yes to the warning, and then press Ctrl+Alt+Del to abort the installation. 2) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD again, and run boot0cfg -B in an emergency shell. I hope my message sounds less cryptic now. I personally don't have anything against running chkdsk or fixmbr, AS LONG AS I have backed up the important sectors. Regards Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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" I've attached the disk to a running Freebsd system 8.3. Which program do you reefer to when you write slice editor? I do not need to be able to boot from the disk. I just need to be able to read it and copy my /home to another disk. Thanks /Leslie Hello Leslie, I think you are unclear with FreeBSD terminology. What Windows calls primary partitions are called slices in FreeBSD. You can have a maximum of 4 slices per disk, as I had mentioned earlier. One of the slices may optionally be marked as what Windows calls an extended partition. The extended partition can be broken up into many partitions ("logical drives" in Windows terminology). Your C: drive is a slice in FreeBSD terms. If you have a D: drive too, that - in all likelihood - is a partition in FreeBSD terminology. FreeBSD's terminology is in general much clearer and a lot more mature than you would find on any other OS, particularly Windows. The first step that you have to perform when installing FreeBSD is to enter the slice editor and create a slice for FreeBSD. When you press on "Begin a standard installation", the slice editor is the first application that is automatically presented to you. FreeBSD uses the term partition to refer to the divisions it creates inside its slice for the /, /usr, /var, /tmp filesystems. Now I fail to understand what you mean by a "running FreeBSD system". I thought your FreeBSD installation had been rendered unbootable by chkdsk. If you can indeed boot into FreeBSD successfully, then you shouldn't be having any problem copying out whatever data you want. The steps I had suggested were meant to make your FreeBSD installation bootable. As long as your FreeBSD slice is marked as NTFS (filesystem ID 7) instead of FFS (filesystem ID 165) in the MBR, no application or OS can read any data from that slice, at least AFAIK. Regards Manish Jain +91-99620-10329 ___ 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: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)
On 02-Nov-12 19:19, Leslie Jensen wrote: Manish Jain skrev 2012-11-02 14:39: That I trusted the chkdsk program to do what I told it to do was in retrospect a bit naive ;-) I do have a backup although it's not as recent as I would have liked. Can you think of any way to perhaps recover the data from the freebsd partition? I trust that you by now have discovered that your trust was never breached by Microsoft (for once). Microsoft firmly believes that Windows is the only OS that should reside on a PC's disk. Therefore running chkdsk with force was only an invitation to Microsoft to run amok. BTW, the reason I replied to this message was not to provide you with a solution but with a trivial yet good bit of precaution I use on my own dual-boot PC, wherein ad4s1 is NTFS/Windows and ad4s2 is my FreeBSD slice. Right after installation of FreeBSD, I ran : dd if=/dev/ad4 of=ad4.512 bs=512 count=1 dd if=/dev/ad4s2 of=ad4s2.512 bs=512 count=1 dd if=/dev/ad4s2a of=ad4s2a.512 bs=512 count=1 No matter how Windows screws up the MBR or FreeBSD's slice, recovering from the situation is simple enough. Regards Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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" Thank you for your comment. I must admit that I do not fully understand what it is you do. Will you explain the details, Please? Thanks /Leslie Hello Leslie, Sorry if my comment sounded a bit cryptic. The first 512 bytes of any hard-disk reside outside of any slice and contain the master boot record. If you installed Windows first and FreeBSD second and opted for the FreeBSD (a.k.a. Easy) Boot Manager, the disk's first 512 bytes will contain 446 bytes of Boot Manager code (which the BIOS executes to give you the F1/F2/F3/F4 choices), 64 bytes containing the disk's slice layout (maximum 4 slices) and 2 bytes for a BIOS checksum. It is very easy to lose the MBR. If, instead of chkdsk, you were to run the fixmbr command, Windows will put its own code into the 446 bytes. That code is capable of only one thing - booting drive C: When you ran chkdsk /f, Windows changed the slice-type of your FreeBSD slice from FFS (ID=165) to NTFS (ID=7) in the MBR. Only Microsoft knows why chkdsk is permitted to do that. Once that happens, you would REALLY like to fix the MBR. One way to do it is to to run the reverse of the first command : dd if=ad4.512 of=/dev/ad4 bs=512 count=1 This assumes 1) you can boot into FreeBSD or Linux or have a GParted bootable CD, and 2) you saved your original MBR as ad4.512 and have access to it, possibly on a USB pendrive that you can mount. Just as the disk's first 512 bytes reside outside of any slice, every slice's first 512 bytes reside outside any partition in that slice and consequently outside the filesystems in that slice. This sector contains the boot code (a.k.a. boot record) needed to boot the OS on that slice. Windows will generally be nice enough to first read the boot.ini file, which gives us the option of booting FreeBSD from Windows' boot.ini : dd if=/dev/ad4s2 of=ad4s2.512 bs=512 count=1 Copy out ad4s2.512 to drive C:, and put this in your boot.ini : c:\ad4s2.412="Boot FreeBSD instead" Of course, you have to substitute your correct numbers in the ads{N} notation. For me, is 4 and {N} is 2. The ad4s2a.512 file contains the first sector in your FreeBSD / partition and is meaningful to the loader more than to us mortals. If everything else fails, you might like to give the following a try : 1) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD, enter the slice editor and change the type of your FreeBSD slice back to 165. Do not press Q. Press W instead. Conform with Yes to the warning, and then press Ctrl+Alt+Del to abort the installation. 2) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD again, and run boot0cfg -B in an emergency shell. I hope my message sounds less cryptic now. I personally don't have anything against running chkdsk or fixmbr, AS LONG AS I have backed up the important sectors. Regards Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)
That I trusted the chkdsk program to do what I told it to do was in retrospect a bit naive ;-) I do have a backup although it's not as recent as I would have liked. Can you think of any way to perhaps recover the data from the freebsd partition? I trust that you by now have discovered that your trust was never breached by Microsoft (for once). Microsoft firmly believes that Windows is the only OS that should reside on a PC's disk. Therefore running chkdsk with force was only an invitation to Microsoft to run amok. BTW, the reason I replied to this message was not to provide you with a solution but with a trivial yet good bit of precaution I use on my own dual-boot PC, wherein ad4s1 is NTFS/Windows and ad4s2 is my FreeBSD slice. Right after installation of FreeBSD, I ran : dd if=/dev/ad4 of=ad4.512 bs=512 count=1 dd if=/dev/ad4s2 of=ad4s2.512 bs=512 count=1 dd if=/dev/ad4s2a of=ad4s2a.512 bs=512 count=1 No matter how Windows screws up the MBR or FreeBSD's slice, recovering from the situation is simple enough. Regards Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com On 02-Nov-12 17:30, freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: Send freebsd-questions mailing list submissions to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org You can reach the person managing the list at freebsd-questions-ow...@freebsd.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of freebsd-questions digest..." Today's Topics: 1. My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen) 2. Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain (Anton Shterenlikht) 3. Dell H710 and H310 Raid Controller (Omer Faruk SEN) 4. Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Warren Block) 5. Autotools, libraries and man pages: oh my! (James Colannino) 6. Re: Autotools, libraries and man pages: oh my! (James Colannino) 7. Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen) 8. Re: Autotools, libraries and man pages: oh my! (Polytropon) 9. lagg interface not created at reboot ( 9.0 ) (Frank Bonnet) 10. Re: lagg interface not created at reboot ( 9.0 ) (Damien Fleuriot) 11. Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Jerry) 12. Re: Autotools, libraries and man pages: oh my! (Robert Bonomi) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:26:33 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk Message-ID: <50924049.1020...@eskk.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I've replaced my dual boot hard drive with an SSD. My hard drive had one 100 GB windows partition and one 300 Gb Freebsd slice with five partitions (/, /usr, /var, /tmp and /home). In order to move my Win7 partition a Norton Ghost program was supplied with the new disk. When trying to clone that partition the process couldn't finish because it needed a chkdsk command to be executed before cloning. I ran a chkdsk c: with the choice of correcting errors. Somewhere in that process the chkdsk program touched my freebsd partition in a way so that it now is recognized as NTFS. That I trusted the chkdsk program to do what I told it to do was in retrospect a bit naive ;-) I do have a backup although it's not as recent as I would have liked. Can you think of any way to perhaps recover the data from the freebsd partition? Thanks /Leslie -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:27:21 GMT From: Anton Shterenlikht To: flash...@flashrom.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, vid...@gmail.com Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain Message-ID: <201211011127.qa1brlfz010...@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:28:22 +0100 Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain From: Idwer Vollering To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, flash...@flashrom.org Another approach is to use an external SPI programmer: http://flashrom.org/Supported_programmers The 'downside' of this is that you need to take your laptop apart. ODM schematics of your laptop are found here: http://notebookschematic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/6515b_6715s.png Downloads for BIOS updates: http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=3356623&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3368539&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1093#120 and ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp55501-56000/sp6.exe My guess (I am not
Re: Problem with connecting FreeBSD 8.3 to wireless network
Forgot to mention the full name of the adapter : Atheros AR5B125 Regards, Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com On 29-Oct-12 00:20, Manish Jain wrote: On 28-Oct-12 05:53, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 05:47:46 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: On 28-Oct-12 01:49, Polytropon wrote: I don't mind pulling in and building a few more ports as long as it is not the whole GNOME2 metaport. It could very well be the whole Gnome 2 metaport. :-( Hi All, After reading all the replies to my earlier post "Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3", I finally summoned up the courage to build the GNOME2 metaport from the ports directory. Since this would not be possible within my lifetime with my usual internet connection, I paid for and succeeded in getting temporary access to a wireless network. Win XP connects to the network pretty smoothly, so there was much reason for hope that things would go smoothly on my FreeBSD 8.3 installation too. I tried configuring the Atheros device to the network as explained in the FreeBSD handbook. But I am having usual rate of success, which is not very high. All the required modules are present in the kernel, as can be seen below : # kldload ath kldload: can't load ath: File exists # kldload wlan_tkip kldload: can't load wlan_tkip: File exists But dmesg returns no output for ath0 : # dmesg | grep -i ath ifconfig returns the following output : # ifconfig bge0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=c019b ether b8:88:e3:45:63:b1 inet6 fe80::ba88:e3ff:fe45:63b1%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 nd6 options=3 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 nd6 options=3 tun0: flags=8051 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8 inet 10.0.0.1 --> 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xff00 Opened by PID 767 Since there is no mention of ath0, I did not expect creating the wlan0 pseudo-device would be a simple matter, and I was right : # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Device not configured Manually trying to create the pseudo-device ath0 presents equally unpleasant output : # ifconfig ath0 create ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Invalid argument pciconf does show my device, but I do not know how to make use of the information (please refer the last few lines of the output) : # pciconf -lv hostb0@pci0:0:0:0:class=0x06 card=0x06491025 chip=0x01048086 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0:class=0x03 card=0x06491025 chip=0x01068086 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = display subclass = VGA none0@pci0:0:22:0:class=0x078000 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e3a8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = simple comms ehci0@pci0:0:26:0:class=0x0c0320 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e2d8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = serial bus subclass = USB hdac0@pci0:0:27:0:class=0x040300 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e208086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = multimedia subclass = HDA pcib1@pci0:0:28:0:class=0x060400 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e108086 rev=0xc4 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI pcib2@pci0:0:28:1:class=0x060400 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e128086 rev=0xc4 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI ehci1@pci0:0:29:0:class=0x0c0320 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e268086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = serial bus subclass = USB isab0@pci0:0:31:0:class=0x060100 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e5e8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = bridge subclass = PCI-ISA atapci0@pci0:0:31:2:class=0x01018f card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e018086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = mass storage subclass = ATA none1@pci0:0:31:3:class=0x0c0500 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e228086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = serial bus subclass = SMBus atapci1@pci0:0:31:5:class=0x010185 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e098086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = mass storage subclass = ATA bge0@pci0:2:0:0:class=0x02 card=0x06471025 chip=0x16b514e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' class = network subclass = ethernet none2@pci0:2:0:1:class=0x080501 card=0x06471025 chip
Problem with connecting FreeBSD 8.3 to wireless network
On 28-Oct-12 05:53, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 05:47:46 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: On 28-Oct-12 01:49, Polytropon wrote: I don't mind pulling in and building a few more ports as long as it is not the whole GNOME2 metaport. It could very well be the whole Gnome 2 metaport. :-( Hi All, After reading all the replies to my earlier post "Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3", I finally summoned up the courage to build the GNOME2 metaport from the ports directory. Since this would not be possible within my lifetime with my usual internet connection, I paid for and succeeded in getting temporary access to a wireless network. Win XP connects to the network pretty smoothly, so there was much reason for hope that things would go smoothly on my FreeBSD 8.3 installation too. I tried configuring the Atheros device to the network as explained in the FreeBSD handbook. But I am having usual rate of success, which is not very high. All the required modules are present in the kernel, as can be seen below : # kldload ath kldload: can't load ath: File exists # kldload wlan_tkip kldload: can't load wlan_tkip: File exists But dmesg returns no output for ath0 : # dmesg | grep -i ath ifconfig returns the following output : # ifconfig bge0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=c019b ether b8:88:e3:45:63:b1 inet6 fe80::ba88:e3ff:fe45:63b1%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 nd6 options=3 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 nd6 options=3 tun0: flags=8051 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8 inet 10.0.0.1 --> 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xff00 Opened by PID 767 Since there is no mention of ath0, I did not expect creating the wlan0 pseudo-device would be a simple matter, and I was right : # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Device not configured Manually trying to create the pseudo-device ath0 presents equally unpleasant output : # ifconfig ath0 create ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Invalid argument pciconf does show my device, but I do not know how to make use of the information (please refer the last few lines of the output) : # pciconf -lv hostb0@pci0:0:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x06491025 chip=0x01048086 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x03 card=0x06491025 chip=0x01068086 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = display subclass = VGA none0@pci0:0:22:0: class=0x078000 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e3a8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = simple comms ehci0@pci0:0:26:0: class=0x0c0320 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e2d8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = serial bus subclass = USB hdac0@pci0:0:27:0: class=0x040300 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e208086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = multimedia subclass = HDA pcib1@pci0:0:28:0: class=0x060400 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e108086 rev=0xc4 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI pcib2@pci0:0:28:1: class=0x060400 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e128086 rev=0xc4 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI ehci1@pci0:0:29:0: class=0x0c0320 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e268086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = serial bus subclass = USB isab0@pci0:0:31:0: class=0x060100 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e5e8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = bridge subclass = PCI-ISA atapci0@pci0:0:31:2: class=0x01018f card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e018086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = mass storage subclass = ATA none1@pci0:0:31:3: class=0x0c0500 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e228086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = serial bus subclass = SMBus atapci1@pci0:0:31:5: class=0x010185 card=0x06491025 chip=0x1e098086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = mass storage subclass = ATA bge0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x06471025 chip=0x16b514e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' class = network subclass = ethernet none2@pci0:2:0:1: class=0x080501 card=0x06471025 chip=0x16bc14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' class = base peripheral subclass = SD host controller no
Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3
On 28-Oct-12 01:49, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:43:11 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: But Mozilla applications like Firefox and Thunderbird present a peculiar problem - the buttons on the Tool bar/Menu bar do not have any image on them. The problem is not Mozilla-specific. I built Opera web browser from ports, and that too has images missing from its buttons. It seems that the problem is in some dependency, not the "top port" itself. This usually indicates that something in /usr/local is dangerously out of sync, and in most cases, "wide re-installs" solve such kind of problem. Looks like I am going to have to contend with being less "image-inative" in the coming days. You just need to imagine the images. :-) Hello Poly, "wide re-installs" Consider me a newbie here. How do I do wide-reinstall ? I don't mind pulling in and building a few more ports as long as it is not the whole GNOME2 metaport. Thank you & Regards, Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3
But Mozilla applications like Firefox and Thunderbird present a peculiar problem - the buttons on the Tool bar/Menu bar do not have any image on them. The problem is not Mozilla-specific. I built Opera web browser from ports, and that too has images missing from its buttons. Looks like I am going to have to contend with being less "image-inative" in the coming days. Regards, Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:06:44 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Hello Polytropon, Thanks for replying. > Maybe an update of FF and TB would be sufficient, so it can link > to the present (or at least expected) libraries accordingly. Maybe I did not make it clear enough in the original message. The only thing I installed from the installation DVD was the OS and the GNOME2 metaport. Everything else including FF and TB was installed from ports, the tarball of which I downloaded just a couple of days back. I hope you are not suggesting that I build the GNOME2 metaport too from the ports directory : with my internet connection, that really would take me into the next century. Exactly that would have been the preferred solution. :-) You should not manually copy things. At some point, something will crash, and the ports infrastructure cannot take care of it. It's easier to use a port management tool (like portmaster) to deal with installing and updating of ports. For the present issue, it seems logical that I would need 2 versions of libpng : one for GNOME and one for the ports being installed. Having the two versions reside independently in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib seems to be the only way out. I still must admit that it defeats the purpose of having port management tools. It also blurs the line between OS (/usr/lib) and additional software (/usr/local/lib) directories. However, both directories are used by the linker, so it looks possible (and probably better than messing with symlinks in /usr/local/lib). Problems _might_ occur when updating world. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > Sometimes placing symlink to the newer version of library instead of > older version helps. > There is only one symlink (/usr/local/bin/libpng.so) and it points to the newer version. Regards, Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3
Hello Polytropon, Thanks for replying. > Maybe an update of FF and TB would be sufficient, so it can link > to the present (or at least expected) libraries accordingly. Maybe I did not make it clear enough in the original message. The only thing I installed from the installation DVD was the OS and the GNOME2 metaport. Everything else including FF and TB was installed from ports, the tarball of which I downloaded just a couple of days back. I hope you are not suggesting that I build the GNOME2 metaport too from the ports directory : with my internet connection, that really would take me into the next century. You should not manually copy things. At some point, something will crash, and the ports infrastructure cannot take care of it. It's easier to use a port management tool (like portmaster) to deal with installing and updating of ports. For the present issue, it seems logical that I would need 2 versions of libpng : one for GNOME and one for the ports being installed. Having the two versions reside independently in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib seems to be the only way out. I still must admit that it defeats the purpose of having port management tools. I suspect that there might be folks at Mozilla who might see the light at the end of the tunnel (and the images on their buttons). I'll try roping them in with a separate message. If anything useful comes up, I'll post it to freebsd-questions as a message of possible interest to any other users who might be facing the same problem. Regards, Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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"
Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3
Hi All, I recently purchased a laptop (Intel Pentium dual core) and installed FreeBSD 8.3-i386 on it using the 'All' canned distribution. I then downloaded the latest ports tarball and started building them. Some of the ports required a newer version of the graphics/png port, so I did a deinstall and reinstall in graphics/png. This removed the previous binary libpng.so.6 and placed version libpng15.so.15 in its stead. Things went wrong here - the GNOME desktop started crashing with the panel not working and practically all desktop icons gone. So I guessed that the canned version of GNOME in the installation DVD had a dependency on libpng.so.6. I reinstalled FreeBSD 8.3, and copied /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.6 to /usr/lib/libpng.so.6 before building the ports a second time. This time things went a lot more smoothly. GNOME works. But Mozilla applications like Firefox and Thunderbird present a peculiar problem - the buttons on the Tool bar/Menu bar do not have any image on them. While this is not exactly a catastrophe, it is rankling to say the least. Maybe some gentleman has faced this problem and has sorted it out. If anyone can provide a hint on how to fix the problem, I would be grateful indeed. Thank you & Regards, Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ 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"
Linux-firefox does not start
Hi, I installed www/linux-firefox from ports (FreeBSD 8.2/amd64). The first time it ran, it did some checks. During this time there was an unexpected power loss. Since then whenever I try to start linux-firefox, I get the error message "An instance of firefox is already. Close it or restart your system". But no solution works. I even did a 'make deinstall' followed by 'make install clean' a couple of times. All of no avail. Can anyone please point out what I need to do to get linux-firefox to start ? Thank you & -- Regards Manish Jain +91-99620-10329 ___ 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"
Flash in Firefox
<< I've not experienced any problem with sites that use Flash, including Youtube. >> Hi Jeff, Okay, so can you please go to the URL below and see whether the bubbles work for you ? http://news.discovery.com/human/games-lumosity-word-bubbles.html I don't have a problem with YouTube either. But if the flash at the URL above works for you, I request you to kindly share with me the ports I need to install. I spent a lot of time, energy and bandwidth installing/reinstalling over a dozen ports, including opera. But neither opera nor firefox on my system work for the subject URL Please send a cc of your reply to me at bourne.ident...@hotmail.com Thanks & -- Regards, Manish Jain +91-99620-10329 ___ 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: How to get Huawei EC1561 USB modem working under FreeBSD, 8.2? Moving on to the next problem :-) -> Flash in Firefox
Hi, Thanks for your inputs. I have finally got FreeBSD to speak to the internet. Now I have one more problem before I can live in peace. I am fond of a game hosted via the Discovery channel's website : http://news.discovery.com/human/games-lumosity-word-bubbles.html The game needs Adobe flash player. So I installed linux-f10-flashplugin11. But firefox 5.0 does not seem to integrate with it well. I then tried installing a couple of more ports, including swfdec and gnash. Still firefox won't play the game. Is there something special I need to do ? Thanks for any help. -- Regards, Manish Jain +91-99620-10329 ___ 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: How to get Huawei EC1561 USB modem working under FreeBSD 8.2?
On 25-Jul-12 21:06, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:21:04 +0530 Manish Jain wrote: On 25-Jul-12 18:53, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:29:07 +0530 Manish Jain wrote: On 23-Jul-12 16:07, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Monday 23 July 2012 16:46:04 Manish Jain wrote: On 21-Jul-12 19:06, Matthias Apitz wrote: El dÃa Saturday, July 21, 2012 a las 06:01:11PM +0530, Manish Jain escribió: I tried switching the USB ports and have some information which could help you to help me : usbconfig -u 0 -a 2 dump_device_desc : ugen0.2: at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON bLength = 0x0012 bDescriptorType = 0x0001 bcdUSB = 0x0110 bDeviceClass = 0x bDeviceSubClass = 0x bDeviceProtocol = 0x bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040 idVendor = 0x12d1 idProduct = 0x140b This is strange. src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs says this: product HUAWEI E140B0x140b 3G modem This means that your product is supported Is this line in your usbdevs? Now what should my devfs.conf contain ? Currently it contains the following : Mine is empty. Comment all entries out. This might be the problem. link cuaU0.0 modem own modem root:operator perm modem 666 link ugen0.3 usv own usv root:operator perm usv 666 link cuaU0.1 apcups own apcups root:operator perm apcups 666 Obviously, these entries are incorrect since neither my modem speaks to the internet nor is any signal from the APC UPS recognized. I believe once I have the correct devfs entries, the whole system should work smoothly. But please correct me if I am wrong. Surprisingly, /etc/usb_modeswitch.d contains no entries for 12d1:140b or 051d:*. Do I need to reinstall usb_modeswitch.d ? Or can usbconfig configure the devices correctly ? I am no expert here, so if yes, I would need the complete commands. What version of FreeBSD are you using? Thanks for any help. I am greatly indebted to FreeBSD and its philosophy making things 'as simple as possible, but not any simpler' - which has helped me learn a great deal about computers in general and managing my own computer in particular. But the USB related stuff still beats the hell out of me, so I need help here. There is something very, very simple wrong. I just do not see now what it is. I have the feeling that your modem is not recognised while it should be as it is known to FreeBSD. BTW, my system now has the usbdump command (installed from sources downloaded from http://biot.com/usbdump/) but no manpage. You got then a Linux version which might causes more problems that you need. Erich Hi Erich/Matthias, I did some tinkering to make _some_ progress. My APC UPS is working fine now under FreeBSD (8.2-RELEASE, amd64). I think I also now have the correct device setting in ppp.conf (/dev/cuaU0.0, also symlink'ed as /dev/modem via devfs.conf). But the modem still does not speak to internet. Here is the latest log : Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: Phase: Using interface: tun0 Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: Phase: deflink: Created in closed state Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: default: set device /dev/modem Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: default: set speed 115200 Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: default: set dial ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 "" AT OK-AT-OK AT&FE0V1X1&D2&C1S0=0 OK \dATDT\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: default: set timeout 180 Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: default: enable dns Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: huawei: set phone #777 Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: huawei: set device /dev/cuaU0.0 Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: huawei: set login Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: huawei: set authname inter...@internet.mtsindia.in Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: huawei: set authkey Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: huawei: set timeout 0 Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: huawei: disable ipv6cp Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: huawei: set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: huawei: add default HISADDR Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: huawei: set dial AT+CRM=1 Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: huawei: accept PAP CHAP Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1199]: tun0: Command: huawei: enable dns Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1217]: tun0: Phase: PPP Started (auto mode). Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1217]: tun0: Phase: bundle: Establish Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1217]: tun0: Phase: deflink: closed -> opening Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1217]: tun0: Phase: deflink: Connected! Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1217]: tun0: Phase: deflink: opening -> dial Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1217]: tun0: Chat: Phone: #777 Jul 26 15:16:15 bourne ppp[1217
Re: How to get Huawei EC1561 USB modem working under FreeBSD 8.2?
On 25-Jul-12 18:53, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:29:07 +0530 Manish Jain wrote: On 23-Jul-12 16:07, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Monday 23 July 2012 16:46:04 Manish Jain wrote: On 21-Jul-12 19:06, Matthias Apitz wrote: El dÃa Saturday, July 21, 2012 a las 06:01:11PM +0530, Manish Jain escribió: I am still stuck because I can't know the syntax to run usbdump. usbdump man usbdump usbconfig gives you the device numbers. I got something wrong. It is all done by usbconfig usbconfig without any parameters gives you a list of devices. One entry should look like this: ugen0.4: at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON You enter then usbconfig -u 0 -a 4 dump_device_desc and you should get something like this: ugen0.4: at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON bLength = 0x0012 bDescriptorType = 0x0001 bcdUSB = 0x0200 bDeviceClass = 0x bDeviceSubClass = 0x bDeviceProtocol = 0x bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040 idVendor = 0x12d1 idProduct = 0x1803 bcdDevice = 0x iManufacturer = 0x0003 iProduct = 0x0002 iSerialNumber = 0x bNumConfigurations = 0x0001 You try to find a solution from the other side of the rope. I think we better start here first. Erich Hi, Thanks for your reply. I tried switching the USB ports and have some information which could help you to help me : usbconfig -u 0 -a 2 dump_device_desc : ugen0.2: at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON bLength = 0x0012 bDescriptorType = 0x0001 bcdUSB = 0x0110 bDeviceClass = 0x bDeviceSubClass = 0x bDeviceProtocol = 0x bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040 idVendor = 0x12d1 idProduct = 0x140b bcdDevice = 0x iManufacturer = 0x0001 iProduct = 0x0002 iSerialNumber = 0x0004 <> bNumConfigurations = 0x0001 usbconfig -u 0 -a 3 dump_device_desc : ugen0.3: Conversion> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=LOW (1.5Mbps) pwr=ON bLength = 0x0012 bDescriptorType = 0x0001 bcdUSB = 0x0110 bDeviceClass = 0x bDeviceSubClass = 0x bDeviceProtocol = 0x bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0008 idVendor = 0x051d idProduct = 0x0002 bcdDevice = 0x0006 iManufacturer = 0x0003 iProduct = 0x0001 iSerialNumber = 0x0002 bNumConfigurations = 0x0001 Now what should my devfs.conf contain ? Currently it contains the following : link cuaU0.0 modem own modem root:operator perm modem 666 link ugen0.3 usv own usv root:operator perm usv 666 link cuaU0.1 apcups own apcups root:operator perm apcups 666 Obviously, these entries are incorrect since neither my modem speaks to the internet nor is any signal from the APC UPS recognized. I believe once I have the correct devfs entries, the whole system should work smoothly. But please correct me if I am wrong. Surprisingly, /etc/usb_modeswitch.d contains no entries for 12d1:140b or 051d:*. Do I need to reinstall usb_modeswitch.d ? Or can usbconfig configure the devices correctly ? I am no expert here, so if yes, I would need the complete commands. Thanks for any help. I am greatly indebted to FreeBSD and its philosophy making things 'as simple as possible, but not any simpler' - which has helped me learn a great deal about computers in general and managing my own computer in particular. But the USB related stuff still beats the hell out of me, so I need help here. BTW, my system now has the usbdump command (installed from sources downloaded from http://biot.com/usbdump/) but no manpage. Thanks again & -- Regards, Manish Jain +91-99620-10329 ___ 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: How to get Huawei EC1561 USB modem working under FreeBSD 8.2?
On 23-Jul-12 16:07, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Monday 23 July 2012 16:46:04 Manish Jain wrote: On 21-Jul-12 19:06, Matthias Apitz wrote: El dÃa Saturday, July 21, 2012 a las 06:01:11PM +0530, Manish Jain escribió: I am still stuck because I can't know the syntax to run usbdump. usbdump man usbdump usbconfig gives you the device numbers. Can someone please send me the sources for this port (sysutils/usbutils) All you need at this stage is in the base. (please remove freebsd-questions@freebsd.org from addresses if sending), as I cannot currently connect my FreeBSD box to the internet. If we do no other people will be able to help you. BTW, cuaU0[.*] are always there on my system, whether my EC1561 stick is It might be your UPS. Erich Hi, You are right. cuaU0.0 is my UPS. I checked the vendor id and the product id : they are 12d1 (huawei) and 140b (the USB stick I have). This is confirmed with usbconfig and what Windows Device Manager shows. However, running 'usbdump -d 12d1:140b' produces no output. In fact there is no entry 12d1:140b under /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/. Do I need to reinstall usb_modeswitch ? usbconfig dumps the following information for a1:u2 : ugen1.2: at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON bLength = 0x0012 bDescriptorType = 0x0001 bcdUSB = 0x0110 bDeviceClass = 0x bDeviceSubClass = 0x bDeviceProtocol = 0x bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040 idVendor = 0x12d1 idProduct = 0x140b bcdDevice = 0x iManufacturer = 0x0001 iProduct = 0x0002 iSerialNumber = 0x0004 <> bNumConfigurations = 0x0001 I tried setting the device in ppp.conf to cuaU0, cuaU0.1, cuaU0.2 and ugen1.2, but had no success in getting the modem to speak to the internet. Am pasting a few lines from ppp.log : Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: Phase: Using interface: tun0 Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: Phase: deflink: Created in closed state Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: default: set device /dev/cuaU0 Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: default: set speed 115200 Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: default: set dial ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 "" AT OK-AT-OK AT&FE0V1X1&D2&C1S0=0 OK \dATDT\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: default: set timeout 180 Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: default: enable dns Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set phone #777 Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set device /dev/cuaU0 Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set login Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set authname inter...@internet.mtsindia.in Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set authkey Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set timeout 0 Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: disable ipv6cp Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: add default HISADDR Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set dial AT+CRM=1 Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: accept CHAP Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1224]: tun0: Phase: PPP Started (auto mode). Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1224]: tun0: Phase: bundle: Establish Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1224]: tun0: Phase: deflink: closed -> opening Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1224]: tun0: Warning: deflink: /dev/cuaU0: Bad file descriptor Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1224]: tun0: Chat: Failed to open device (attempt 1 of 1) Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1224]: tun0: Phase: deflink: opening -> closed Jul 23 22:25:15 bourne ppp[1224]: tun0: Phase: bundle: Dead Jul 23 22:36:19 bourne ppp[1207]: Phase: Using interface: tun0 Jul 23 22:36:19 bourne ppp[1207]: Phase: deflink: Created in closed state Jul 23 22:36:19 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: default: set device /dev/modem Jul 23 22:36:19 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: default: set speed 115200 Jul 23 22:36:19 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: default: set dial ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 "" AT OK-AT-OK AT&FE0V1X1&D2&C1S0=0 OK \dATDT\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT Jul 23 22:36:19 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: default: set timeout 180 Jul 23 22:36:19 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: default: enable dns Jul 23 22:36:19 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set phone #777 Jul 23 22:36:19 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set device /dev/modem Jul 23 22:36:19 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set login Jul 23 22:36:19 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set authname inter...@internet.mtsindia.in Jul 23 22:36:19 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set authkey Jul 23 22:36:19 bourne ppp[1207]: tun0: Command: huawei: set timeout 0 Jul 23 22:36:19
Re: How to get Huawei EC1561 USB modem working under FreeBSD 8.2 ?
On 21-Jul-12 19:06, Matthias Apitz wrote: El dÃa Saturday, July 21, 2012 a las 06:01:11PM +0530, Manish Jain escribió: Hello Erich/Matthias, Thanks for your responses. I do not have the usbdump command on my system. usbconfig gives the following output : ... ugen0.2: at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=LOW (1.5Mbps) pwr=ON ugen1.2: at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON ugen2.2: at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=SAVE PFA ppp.log. As you will find, it repeatedly complains of /dev/cuaU0.0 being an invalid file. But the output of 'ls -l' shows the contrary : ... crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 0, 143 Jul 21 17:38 cuaU0.0 crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 0, 144 Jul 21 17:38 cuaU0.0.init crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 0, 145 Jul 21 17:38 cuaU0.0.lock crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 0, 149 Jul 21 17:38 cuaU0.1 crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 0, 150 Jul 21 17:38 cuaU0.1.init crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 0, 151 Jul 21 17:38 cuaU0.1.lock crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 0, 155 Jul 21 17:38 cuaU0.2 crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 0, 156 Jul 21 17:38 cuaU0.2.init crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 0, 157 Jul 21 17:38 cuaU0.2.lock crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 0, 44 Jul 21 17:38 cuau0 crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 0, 45 Jul 21 17:38 cuau0.init crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 0, 46 Jul 21 17:38 cuau0.lock ... Thanks for any tips/help. Which port do I need to install to get usbdump ? First of all, do not top-post. 'usbdump' is part of the system, but only from beginning at some version; Are you sure that /dev/cuaU0.0 belongs to the modem? Please, detach it, look with 'ls -l /dev/cuaU*' if it went away, attach it again. Please show the messages from /var/log/messages on attach. If the /dev/cuaU0.0 device really belongs to the modem, install 'kermit' from the ports, create a file ~/.kermrc with set line /dev/cuaU0.0 set speed 9600 set escape21 set carrier-watch off set rec pack 1000 set send pack 1000 set window5 set prompt FreeBSD Kermit> and check it you can talk to the modem with kermit; the command ATI2 should say something about the modem device. One should be first able to talk to the modem with a terminal (like kermit), then bring chat(1) to work and after this watch ppp log, in that order. HIH matthias Hi, I am still stuck because I can't know the syntax to run usbdump. usbdump says use the id's provided by lsusb but I forgot to install sysutils/usbutils while I still had the EC1261 Huawei stick. Can someone please send me the sources for this port (sysutils/usbutils) ? I will need the complete sources for PORTVERSION 0.86 as a gzipped tar (please remove freebsd-questions@freebsd.org from addresses if sending), as I cannot currently connect my FreeBSD box to the internet. BTW, cuaU0[.*] are always there on my system, whether my EC1561 stick is plugged in or not. So I am surely using the wrong device as the modem. The following lines are there in my devfs.conf : link ugen0.2 usv own usv root:operator perm usv 666 link cuaU0.0 modem own modem root:operator perm modem 666 Thank you & Regards, Manish Jain +91-99620-10329 ___ 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: How to get Huawei EC1561 USB modem working under FreeBSD 8.2 ?
wheel7 Jul 21 17:38 modem -> cuaU0.0 crw--- 1 root kmem0, 15 Jul 21 17:38 nfslock dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 21 17:38 ntfs crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 28 Jul 21 17:44 null crw--- 1 root operator0, 133 Jul 21 23:08 pass0 crw--- 1 root operator0, 134 Jul 21 23:08 pass1 crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0, 30 Jul 21 17:38 pci crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 49 Jul 21 17:38 ppi0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 52 Jul 21 17:38 psm0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 9 Jul 21 17:38 ptmx crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 7 Jul 21 23:08 random cr--r--r-- 1 root wheel 0, 6 Jul 21 17:38 sndstat lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel4 Jul 21 17:38 stderr -> fd/2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel4 Jul 21 17:38 stdin -> fd/0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel4 Jul 21 17:38 stdout -> fd/1 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 11 Jul 21 17:38 sysmouse crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 140 Jul 21 17:38 ttyU0.0 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 141 Jul 21 17:38 ttyU0.0.init crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 142 Jul 21 17:38 ttyU0.0.lock crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 146 Jul 21 17:38 ttyU0.1 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 147 Jul 21 17:38 ttyU0.1.init crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 148 Jul 21 17:38 ttyU0.1.lock crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 152 Jul 21 17:38 ttyU0.2 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 153 Jul 21 17:38 ttyU0.2.init crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 154 Jul 21 17:38 ttyU0.2.lock crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 41 Jul 21 17:38 ttyu0 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 42 Jul 21 17:38 ttyu0.init crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 43 Jul 21 17:38 ttyu0.lock crw--- 1 root tty 0, 54 Jul 21 17:45 ttyv0 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 55 Jul 21 17:38 ttyv1 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 56 Jul 21 17:38 ttyv2 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 57 Jul 21 17:38 ttyv3 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 58 Jul 21 17:38 ttyv4 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 59 Jul 21 17:38 ttyv5 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 60 Jul 21 17:38 ttyv6 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 61 Jul 21 17:38 ttyv7 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 62 Jul 21 17:38 ttyv8 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 63 Jul 21 17:38 ttyv9 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 64 Jul 21 17:38 ttyva crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 65 Jul 21 17:38 ttyvb crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 66 Jul 21 17:38 ttyvc crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 67 Jul 21 17:38 ttyvd crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 68 Jul 21 17:38 ttyve crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 69 Jul 21 17:38 ttyvf crw--- 1 uucp dialer 0, 158 Jul 21 17:38 tun0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 21 17:38 ufsid lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel9 Jul 21 17:38 ugen0.1 -> usb/0.1.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel9 Jul 21 17:38 ugen0.2 -> usb/0.2.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel9 Jul 21 17:38 ugen1.1 -> usb/1.1.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel9 Jul 21 17:38 ugen1.2 -> usb/1.2.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel9 Jul 21 17:38 ugen2.1 -> usb/2.1.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel9 Jul 21 17:38 ugen2.2 -> usb/2.2.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel9 Jul 21 17:38 ugen3.1 -> usb/3.1.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel9 Jul 21 17:38 ugen4.1 -> usb/4.1.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel9 Jul 21 17:38 ugen5.1 -> usb/5.1.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel9 Jul 21 17:38 ugen6.1 -> usb/6.1.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel6 Jul 21 17:38 urandom -> random dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 21 17:38 usb crw-r--r-- 1 root operator0, 71 Jul 21 17:38 usbctl lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel7 Jul 21 17:38 usv -> ugen0.2 crw--- 1 root operator0, 72 Jul 21 17:38 xpt0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 29 Jul 21 17:38 zero Thanks for any tips/help. Which port do I need to install to get usbdump ? Regards, Manish Jain +91-99620-10329 On 21-Jul-12 07:10, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Friday 20 July 2012 19:25:21 Manish Jain wrote: I earlier had a Huawei EC1261-based USB modem which used to connect smoothly to the internet under FreeBSD 8.2 using the u3g module. For some reasons, I have had to switch to another provider (MTS) who swapped the Huawei EC1261-based USB modem with a Huawei EC1561-based USB modem. And my FreeBSD system cannot connect to the internet anymore. both modems are not officially supported by FreeBSD. You might get some help from the list if you provide the output of usbconfig and usbdump. You run usbconfig first to find out the device numbers of the modem and then dump with usbdump the description of the modem. Here are the contents of my ppp.conf (I assume authkey means password) : There should nothing to be done here as the modem is not recognised. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman
How to get Huawei EC1561 USB modem working under FreeBSD 8.2 ?
Hello all, I earlier had a Huawei EC1261-based USB modem which used to connect smoothly to the internet under FreeBSD 8.2 using the u3g module. For some reasons, I have had to switch to another provider (MTS) who swapped the Huawei EC1261-based USB modem with a Huawei EC1561-based USB modem. And my FreeBSD system cannot connect to the internet anymore. Here are the contents of my ppp.conf (I assume authkey means password) : default: set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command allow users bourne set device /dev/cuaU0.0 set speed 115200 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \ \"\" AT OK-AT-OK AT&FE0V1X1&D2&C1S0=0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" set timeout 180 # 3 minute idle timer (the default) enable dns # request DNS info (for resolv.conf) huawei: set phone "#777" set login set authname "inter...@internet.mtsindia.in" set authkey "MTS" set timeout 0 disable ipv6cp set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR set dial AT+CRM=1 accept CHAP The u3g module is loaded at boot-time via /etc/rc.local : kldload u3g sleep 3 ppp -auto huawei I am using opendns/google servers for DNS in resolv.conf : 208.67.222.222 8.8.8.8 DNS cannot really be an issue because when I ping the IP address 208.67.222.222, I get 100% packet loss. Can someone please point me in the right direction so that my FreeBSD system starts connecting to the internet using the new modem ? Thank you & -- Regards, Manish Jain +91-99620-10329 ___ 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: Question on select() : why am I getting absurd output ?
Sometimes I do wonder how much stupid I can be. Thanks MJ On 15-Jan-12 22:49, ss griffon wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Manish Jain wrote: Hi All, I was trying to write a small demo code using the select() system call. Here are the sources : #include #include #include #include #include #include int nice_child(int * fd, int * fd_close) { close(fd[0]); close(fd_close[0]); close(fd_close[1]); char buffer[32]; while (1) { sleep(3); strcpy(buffer, "I love my wife !"); write(fd[1], buffer, strlen(buffer) + 1); } return 0; } int naughty_child(int * fd, int * fd_close) { close(fd[0]); close(fd_close[0]); close(fd_close[1]); char buffer[32]; while (1) { sleep(4); strcpy(buffer, "I love your wife !"); write(fd[1], buffer, strlen(buffer) + 1); } return 0; } int main() { int fd_nice[2]; int fd_naughty[2]; pipe(fd_nice); pipe(fd_naughty); if (fork() == 0) { return nice_child(fd_nice, fd_naughty); } else { if (fork() == 0) { return naughty_child(fd_naughty, fd_nice); } } close(fd_nice[1]); close(fd_naughty[1]); fd_set fdset; char buffer[64]; int fd = (*fd_naughty> *fd_nice) ? *fd_naughty : *fd_nice; FD_ZERO(&fdset); FD_SET(fd_nice[0],&fdset); FD_SET(fd_naughty[0],&fdset); while (1) { int result = select(fd + 1,&fdset, 0, 0, 0); assert(result> 0); if (FD_ISSET(fd_nice[0],&fdset)) { int result = read(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)); buffer[result] = 0; std::cout<< "Nice child sent : "<< buffer<< std::endl; } if (FD_ISSET(fd_naughty[0],&fdset)) { int result = read(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)); buffer[result] = 0; std::cout<< "Naughty child sent : "<< buffer<< std::endl; } } return 0; } I was expecting the output to be like : Nice child sent : I love my wife ! Naughty child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love my wife ! But what I actually get is : Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Can somebody throw some light on what might be wrong ? Thank you& Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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" It looks like you are always reading from the same file descriptor 'fd'. Instead you should read from fd_naughty[0] or fd_nice[0] based on your FD_ISSET checks. Also, don't forget to wait() for your child processes. ___ 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"
Question on select() : why am I getting absurd output ?
Hi All, I was trying to write a small demo code using the select() system call. Here are the sources : #include #include #include #include #include #include int nice_child(int * fd, int * fd_close) { close(fd[0]); close(fd_close[0]); close(fd_close[1]); char buffer[32]; while (1) { sleep(3); strcpy(buffer, "I love my wife !"); write(fd[1], buffer, strlen(buffer) + 1); } return 0; } int naughty_child(int * fd, int * fd_close) { close(fd[0]); close(fd_close[0]); close(fd_close[1]); char buffer[32]; while (1) { sleep(4); strcpy(buffer, "I love your wife !"); write(fd[1], buffer, strlen(buffer) + 1); } return 0; } int main() { int fd_nice[2]; int fd_naughty[2]; pipe(fd_nice); pipe(fd_naughty); if (fork() == 0) { return nice_child(fd_nice, fd_naughty); } else { if (fork() == 0) { return naughty_child(fd_naughty, fd_nice); } } close(fd_nice[1]); close(fd_naughty[1]); fd_set fdset; char buffer[64]; int fd = (*fd_naughty > *fd_nice) ? *fd_naughty : *fd_nice; FD_ZERO(&fdset); FD_SET(fd_nice[0], &fdset); FD_SET(fd_naughty[0], &fdset); while (1) { int result = select(fd + 1, &fdset, 0, 0, 0); assert(result > 0); if (FD_ISSET(fd_nice[0], &fdset)) { int result = read(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)); buffer[result] = 0; std::cout << "Nice child sent : " << buffer << std::endl; } if (FD_ISSET(fd_naughty[0], &fdset)) { int result = read(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)); buffer[result] = 0; std::cout << "Naughty child sent : " << buffer << std::endl; } } return 0; } I was expecting the output to be like : Nice child sent : I love my wife ! Naughty child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love my wife ! But what I actually get is : Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Can somebody throw some light on what might be wrong ? Thank you & Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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"
SSL server refusing connection : ECONNREFUSED
Hello, I am new to openssl and trying to create a demo client and server which use SSL v3. But the server, for some reason I cannot figure out, always refuses connections with the client reporting errno as ECONNREFUSED. Can somebody please help me out with what might be the problem ? Relevant portions of sources for server and client are available below. Thank you & Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com //server SSL_METHOD * lpmethod = SSLv3_method(); SSL_CTX * lpctx = SSL_CTX_new(lpmethod); int result = SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file(lpctx, CERT_FILE); assert(result > 0); result = SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(lpctx, KEY_FILE, SSL_FILETYPE_PEM); assert(result > 0); result = SSL_CTX_check_private_key(lpctx); assert(result != 0); sockaddr_in addr; int sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); sockaddr_in sin; int val = 1; memset((char *)&addr, 0, sizeof(addr)); addr.sin_addr.s_addr=INADDR_ANY; addr.sin_family = AF_INET; addr.sin_port = htons(PORT); setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &val, sizeof(val)); bind(sock, (sockaddr *) &sin, sizeof(sin)); result = listen(sock,5); std::cout << "listen returned " << result << std::endl; int new_sock = accept(sock, 0, 0); //client : SSL_library_init(); SSL_load_error_strings(); SSL_METHOD * lpmethod = SSLv3_method(); SSL_CTX * lpctx = SSL_CTX_new(lpmethod); int result = SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file(lpctx, CERT_FILE); assert(result > 0); result = SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(lpctx, KEY_FILE, SSL_FILETYPE_PEM); assert(result > 0); result = SSL_CTX_check_private_key(lpctx); assert(result != 0); SSL_CTX_set_verify(lpctx, SSL_VERIFY_PEER, 0); sockaddr_in addr; memset((char *) &addr, 0, sizeof(addr)); addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1"); addr.sin_family = AF_INET; addr.sin_port = htons(); int sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP); assert(sock > 0); result = connect(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr)); ___ 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: Help needed : My FreeBSD8.2-amd64 installation keeps crashing
Hello All, My apologies for the last message and for the delay in rectifying any wrong impression it might have created. It was not FreeBSD8.2-amd64 that was the problem. As I found out, it was the system thermals that was causing my system to crash. I had to turn on my BIOS's temperature warnings to discover the root cause. Playing GNU-Chess against the built-in engine[s] accelerates the rise in system temperatures dramatically. Can anyone please suggest an amd64 (phenom-AM2+) motherboard with smbus support for FreeBSD and capable of running Windows 2000 ? Regards Manish Jain [1]invalid.poin...@gmail.com On 17-Jul-11 17:28, Manish Jain wrote: Hi all, My FreeBSD8.2-amd64 installation keeps crashing - power off in a flash with no warning. I can't imagine what might be the problem. I ran memtest86+ and it cleared Pass 1 with no errors. Win XP runs without any problems. I have pasted below XP Device Manager's system summary report below. (N: is an ext2fs slice and X: is the FreeBSD slice). Can somebody suggest what might the problem be ? There are a couple of points of interest : 1) there are no /dev/smbus* nodes 2) FreeBSD8.0-amd64 ran on my system without problems. Thanks in advance for any help. Meanwhile I am about to start running memtest86+ again to go through 2 Passes. Regards Manish Jain [2]invalid.poin...@gmail.com System Resource Report- Page: 1 SYSTEM SUMMARY Windows Version: Windows 5.1 Service Pack 3 (Build 2600) Registered Owner: Manish Jain Registered Organization: Cognizant Computer Name: CTS-235050 Machine Type: AT/AT COMPATIBLE System BIOS Version: GBT- 42302e31 System BIOS Date: 01/02/09 Processor Type: x86 Family 16 Model 2 Stepping 3 Processor Vendor: AuthenticAMD Number of Processors: 4 Physical Memory: 3071 MB DISK DRIVE INFO Drive C: Type: Fixed disk drive Total Space: 33,032,691,712 bytes Free Space: 13,457,170,432 bytes Heads: 16 Cylinders: 620178 Sectors Per Track: 63 Bytes Per Sector: 512 Drive D: Type: Fixed disk drive Total Space: 240,836,165,632 bytes Free Space: 41,083,314,176 bytes Heads: 16 Cylinders: 620178 Sectors Per Track: 63 Bytes Per Sector: 512 Drive F: Type: CD-ROM drive Total Space: 33,554,432 bytes Drive N: Type: Fixed disk drive Total Space: 4,258,791,424 bytes Free Space: 2,774,253,568 bytes Heads: 16 Cylinders: 620178 Sectors Per Track: 63 Bytes Per Sector: 512 Drive X: Type: Fixed disk drive Total Space: 37,434,163,200 bytes Free Space: 3,302,391,808 bytes Heads: 16 Cylinders: 620178 Sectors Per Track: 63 Bytes Per Sector: 512 IRQ SUMMARY IRQ Usage Summary: (ISA) 0High precision event timer (ISA) 1Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard (ISA) 4Communications Port (COM1) System Resource Report- Page: 2 (ISA) 8High precision event timer (ISA) 9Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System (ISA) 9AEMPH6YR IDE Controller (ISA) 12PS/2 Compatible Mouse (ISA) 13Numeric data processor (ISA) 14Primary IDE Channel (PCI) 16Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (PCI) 16Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (PCI) 16Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio (PCI) 17Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller (PCI) 18ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics (PCI) 18PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge (PCI) 18Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (PCI) 18Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (PCI) 18Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (PCI) 18Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (PCI) 19Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio (PCI) 19Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller (PCI) 22Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (PCI) 22Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller DMA USAGE SUMMARY DMA Usage Summary:
Help needed : My FreeBSD8.2-amd64 installation keeps crashing
Hi all, My FreeBSD8.2-amd64 installation keeps crashing - power off in a flash with no warning. I can't imagine what might be the problem. I ran memtest86+ and it cleared Pass 1 with no errors. Win XP runs without any problems. I have pasted below XP Device Manager's system summary report below. (N: is an ext2fs slice and X: is the FreeBSD slice). Can somebody suggest what might the problem be ? There are a couple of points of interest : 1) there are no /dev/smbus* nodes 2) FreeBSD8.0-amd64 ran on my system without problems. Thanks in advance for any help. Meanwhile I am about to start running memtest86+ again to go through 2 Passes. Regards Manish Jain [1]invalid.poin...@gmail.com System Resource Report- Page: 1 SYSTEM SUMMARY Windows Version: Windows 5.1 Service Pack 3 (Build 2600) Registered Owner: Manish Jain Registered Organization: Cognizant Computer Name: CTS-235050 Machine Type: AT/AT COMPATIBLE System BIOS Version: GBT- 42302e31 System BIOS Date: 01/02/09 Processor Type: x86 Family 16 Model 2 Stepping 3 Processor Vendor: AuthenticAMD Number of Processors: 4 Physical Memory: 3071 MB DISK DRIVE INFO Drive C: Type: Fixed disk drive Total Space: 33,032,691,712 bytes Free Space: 13,457,170,432 bytes Heads: 16 Cylinders: 620178 Sectors Per Track: 63 Bytes Per Sector: 512 Drive D: Type: Fixed disk drive Total Space: 240,836,165,632 bytes Free Space: 41,083,314,176 bytes Heads: 16 Cylinders: 620178 Sectors Per Track: 63 Bytes Per Sector: 512 Drive F: Type: CD-ROM drive Total Space: 33,554,432 bytes Drive N: Type: Fixed disk drive Total Space: 4,258,791,424 bytes Free Space: 2,774,253,568 bytes Heads: 16 Cylinders: 620178 Sectors Per Track: 63 Bytes Per Sector: 512 Drive X: Type: Fixed disk drive Total Space: 37,434,163,200 bytes Free Space: 3,302,391,808 bytes Heads: 16 Cylinders: 620178 Sectors Per Track: 63 Bytes Per Sector: 512 IRQ SUMMARY IRQ Usage Summary: (ISA) 0High precision event timer (ISA) 1Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard (ISA) 4Communications Port (COM1) System Resource Report- Page: 2 (ISA) 8High precision event timer (ISA) 9Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System (ISA) 9AEMPH6YR IDE Controller (ISA) 12PS/2 Compatible Mouse (ISA) 13Numeric data processor (ISA) 14Primary IDE Channel (PCI) 16Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (PCI) 16Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (PCI) 16Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio (PCI) 17Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller (PCI) 18ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics (PCI) 18PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge (PCI) 18Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (PCI) 18Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (PCI) 18Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (PCI) 18Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (PCI) 19Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio (PCI) 19Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller (PCI) 22Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (PCI) 22Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller DMA USAGE SUMMARY DMA Usage Summary: 3ECP Printer Port (LPT1) 4Direct memory access controller MEMORY SUMMARY Memory Usage Summary: [ - 0009] System board [ - 0FFF] Motherboard resources [000A - 000B] PCI bus [000A - 000B] PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge [000A - 000B] ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics [000C - 000D] PCI bus [000CEA00 - 000C] System board [000F - 000F7FFF] System board [000F8000 - 000FBFFF] System board [000FC000 - 000F] Sy
Re: disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death
Hi Chuck, I ran memtest86+ by loading it from the loader prompt. It completed Pass 1 with no errors in about 45 minutes. While I'll re-run memtest86+ for at least 2 passes tonight, I more suspect bad blocks in my ffs slice. So I am planning to install sysutils/smartmontools and run smartctl on /dev/ad8s2 (the ffs slice). Is there any port for monitoring system thermals, particularly CPU ? Regards Manish Jain On 09-Jul-11 22:24, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Manish Jain wrote: What do I make of it when the system runs flawlessly both on Win XP and FreeBSD -8.0-amd64 ? That's interesting but inconclusive. Can you run prime95 testing overnight und er WinXP without issues? Or memtest86? BTW, 8.2 does NOT - for reasons unfathomable to me - install /usr/sbin/apmd. I don't know how significant that is, but I have had to insert into rc.conf : apm_enable="NO" apmd_enable="NO" ACPI replaced APM around 2000. (I'm assuming you don't have a 11-year-old quad -core Phenom system, since AMD didn't make such processors until 2007 or 2008.) Regards, ___ 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: disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death
Hi Chuck, What do I make of it when the system runs flawlessly both on Win XP and FreeBSD-8.0-amd64 ? BTW, 8.2 does NOT - for reasons unfathomable to me - install /usr/sbin/apmd. I don't know how significant that is, but I have had to insert into rc.conf : apm_enable="NO" apmd_enable="NO" Thanks for any help. Regards Manish Jain [1]invalid.poin...@gmail.com On 09-Jul-11 19:59, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 9, 2011, at 3:53 AM, Manish Jain wrote: I am running FreeBSD-8.2-amd64 on a Western Digital 320 GD disk and a quad-core AMD Phenom processor. After booting, the disk keeps continuously (meaning continuous I/O) and after a couple of hours (on the console with the X server not running), suddenly the whole system dies, powering off in a flash. I suspect the continuous I/O is causing is a CPU overheat which results in this behaviour. While you probably do have flaky hardware causing problems, even under the wors t case situation, a modern hard drive doesn't use more than about 10W even unde r full load (ie, continuous writes). Compare that with the 125W thermal design rating of a 4-core Phenom. If your system is overheating, it's not because of what a hard drive is doing. It should be easy to tell if thermals are an issue-- is the CPU heat sink getti ng too hot to touch just before this shutdown? If so, it's likely to be a prob lem with a cooling fan or heatsink attachment. Also, what is it that makes you think your disk is doing continuous I/O? What does "iostat 5" or similar show? Regards, References 1. mailto:invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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"
disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death
Hello all, I am running FreeBSD-8.2-amd64 on a Western Digital 320 GD disk and a quad-core AMD Phenom processor. After booting, the disk keeps continuously (meaning continuous I/O) and after a couple of hours (on the console with the X server not running), suddenly the whole system dies, powering off in a flash. I suspect the continuous I/O is causing is a CPU overheat which results in this behaviour. The strange thing is when I ran a script to ktrace and kdump, there is no sign of any unwarranted I/O. Can anyone suggest what possibly be wrong with my system ? I have disabled as much as possible in rc.conf and syslog.conf to prevent I/O. My script and the output are pasted below. BTW, the system runs flawlessly both on Win XP and FreeBSD-8.0-amd64. The reason I do not want to install FreeBSD-8.0-amd64 is that its Logo saver, one of my al-time favourites, does not work. In 8.2, it does work. One thing I should mention is that, apart from swap, I have only one partition / (35 GB). No other mountpoints. BTW, does FreeBSD have anything like Linux badblocks to check for any bad sectors in hard disks ? Thanks for any help. Regards Manish Jain [1]invalid.poin...@gmail.com #!/usr/local/bin/bash ktrace -dip 0 sleep 10 ktrace -C kdump -m64 | egrep '\|\' > ~/diskio.log exit 0 Here are the results : 1640 bash CALL read(0xff,0x800e23080,0x77) 1640 bash GIO fd 255 read 82 bytes 1640 bash RET read 82/0x52 1642 sleepCALL read(0x3,0x7fffe170,0x80) 1642 sleepGIO fd 3 read 128 bytes 1642 sleepRET read 128/0x80 1642 sleepCALL read(0x3,0x800533000,0xb4) 1642 sleepGIO fd 3 read 180 bytes 1642 sleepRET read 180/0xb4 1642 sleepGIO fd 3 read 4096 bytes 858 ppp CALL read(0,0x801420140,0x800) 858 ppp GIO fd 0 read 18 bytes 858 ppp RET read 18/0x12 858 ppp CALL read(0,0x801420140,0x800) 858 ppp GIO fd 0 read 53 bytes 858 ppp RET read 53/0x35 858 ppp CALL write(0x6,0x7fffd980,0x34) 858 ppp RET write 52/0x34 858 ppp CALL read(0x6,0x7fffe320,0x804) 858 ppp GIO fd 6 read 44 bytes 858 ppp RET read 44/0x2c 858 ppp CALL write(0,0x80145b138,0x2d) 858 ppp RET write 45/0x2d 858 ppp CALL read(0,0x801420140,0x800) 858 ppp GIO fd 0 read 53 bytes 858 ppp RET read 53/0x35 858 ppp CALL write(0x6,0x7fffd980,0x34) 858 ppp RET write 52/0x34 858 ppp CALL read(0x6,0x7fffe320,0x804) 858 ppp GIO fd 6 read 44 bytes 858 ppp RET read 44/0x2c 858 ppp CALL write(0,0x80145b338,0x2e) 858 ppp RET write 46/0x2e 1640 bash CALL read(0xff,0x800e23080,0x77) 1640 bash GIO fd 255 read 73 bytes kdump -m64 | egrep '\\|\\' > ~/diskio.log" 1640 bash RET read 73/0x49 1643 ktrace CALL read(0x3,0x7fffe140,0x80) 1643 ktrace GIO fd 3 read 128 bytes 1643 ktrace RET read 128/0x80 1643 ktrace CALL read(0x3,0x800534000,0xb4) 1643 ktrace GIO fd 3 read 180 bytes 1643 ktrace RET read 180/0xb4 1643 ktrace GIO fd 3 read 4096 bytes References 1. mailto:invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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: PID 11 using 400% CPU
Hello Dan, I was having multiple problems with my x86 installation, apart from the disc spinning continuously. Despite tuning many sysctl parameters, X clients would not open for non-root users ("max number of clients reached"); for root, they would open, but after about 30 minutes of playing xboard (gnuchess), the computer would simply shut down (without even a proper shut down sequence; worse that DOS BSOD - power off in a flash); while up, the speed and performance of the system was abysmal. I therefore yesterday downloaded the iso for amd64, which is the architecture of my system. I am going to install it and try it out over the weekend. Hope things will be better this time around. Thanks for all your suggestions and advice though. Regards Manish Jain [1]invalid.poin...@gmail.com On 05-Jul-11 19:50, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 05), manish jain said: On 30 June 2011 10:26, Dan Nelson [2] wrote: In the last episode (Jun 30), Manish Jain said: I have a strange problem with my 8.1 box. After booting, the hard disk goes into a full-speed never-ending spin. To see what disk I/O is being done, try running "ktrace -dip 0 ; sleep 10 ; ktrace -C", to capture all syscalls done on the entire system (pid 0 plus children) for 10 seconds, then run "kdump -m64 | less" to view the results. Look for read or write calls. It looks like ppp is doing a lot of read and write operations, which keeps the disk spinning. How do I set this right ? Is there something wrong with my ppp.conf (see below) ? I bet that if you ran fstat or lsof on the ppp process, all the writes are actually to your serial device or a tun device, not to disk. ppp is unlikely to cause much disk I/O. You'll have to filter out the ppp process and check your kdump output again. References 1. mailto:invalid.poin...@gmail.com 2. mailto:dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: PID 11 using 400% CPU
Hello Dan, It looks like ppp is doing a lot of read and write operations, which keeps the disk spinning. How do I set this right ? Is there something wrong with my ppp.conf (see below) ? ppp.conf : default: set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command allow users bourne # ident user-ppp VERSION (built COMPILATIONDATE) set device /dev/cuaU0.0 set speed 115200 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \ \"\" AT OK-AT-OK AT&FE0V1X1&D2&C1S0=0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" set timeout 180 # 3 minute idle timer (the default) enable dns # request DNS info (for resolv.conf) huawei: set phone "#777" set login set authname "internet" set authkey "" set timeout 180 disable ipv6cp set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR accept CHAP On 30 June 2011 10:26, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 30), Manish Jain said: > > > >Hello All, > >I have a strange problem with my 8.1 box. After booting, the hard disk > >goes into a full-speed never-ending spin. > > To see what disk I/O is being done, try running "ktrace -dip 0 ; sleep 10 ; > ktrace -C", to capture all syscalls done on the entire system (pid 0 plus > children) for 10 seconds, then run "kdump -m64 | less" to view the results. > Look for read or write calls. > > > 'ps waux' always shows pid > >11 as taking 400% CPU utilization : > >/root # ps -up 11 > >USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > >root11 400.0 0.0 032 ?? RL7:22PM 166:35.46 [idle] > >I have tried multiple tweaks to resolve this - all to no effect. The > > As for this, what's to resolve? The idle process is a placeholder with one > thread per CPU that accounts for time the CPU isn't doing any work. If you > want to reduce it's "CPU use", run other CPU-intensive processes :) BTW, > Windows has the same thing if you look at task manager; it's called "System > Idle Process" there. > > -- >Dan Nelson >dnel...@allantgroup.com > ___ 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"
What is xz ?
Hi all, I just downloaded FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz and the md5 checksum is correct. Can someone please tell me what does that xz at the end stand for ? It looks like it stands for some kind of compression (gzip/bzip2/some new format), but I can't figure out exactly which one. Thank you & Regards Manish Jain [1]invalid.poin...@gmail.com References 1. mailto:invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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"
PID 11 using 400% CPU
Hello All, I have a strange problem with my 8.1 box. After booting, the hard disk goes into a full-speed never-ending spin. 'ps waux' always shows pid 11 as taking 400% CPU utilization : /root # ps -up 11 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root11 400.0 0.0 032 ?? RL7:22PM 166:35.46 [idle] I have tried multiple tweaks to resolve this - all to no effect. The only thing that seems out of place is that polkitd seems to be missing. (I have no idea why this is the case). /etc/rc.conf states polkitd_enable="YES". This happens even in single-user mode, which I used to try to fix any filesystem errors with 'fsck -fy' : there were none. My system has only 2 partitions : ad8s2a (/) and ad8s2b (swap). Any pointers to what might the problem be ? Thanks in advance. Regards Manish Jain [1]invalid.poin...@gmail.com References 1. mailto:invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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: Can someone please help me set up my tata-photon (huawei) modem ?
Hello Matthias, I got it to work ! I symlinked /usr/local/bin/tclsh8.2 as tclsh, but that was probably not the only factor involved. In a streak of unintended brilliance, I had set the device in ppp.conf as /dev/cuaU0, whereas there is no such device - as /var/log/ppp.log complained. (Thanks for your suggestion for looking up the log). I changed /dev/cuaU0 to /dev/cuaU0.0, as a matter of courtesy. Now my FreeBSD box is connected to the internet and I don't have to boot into XP again (as long as I can hope). Thanks again Manish Jain On 29-Jun-11 00:55, Manish Jain wrote: Hello Matthias, Yes, I do have /dev/cuaU0.0 along with corresponding lock and init files, although I cannot give you the output you want right now since I am booted into XP with the FreeBSD 8.2 dvd image being downloaded. (This will hopefully finish in about 15 hours, as cygwin::ncftpget suggests). I also tried a few other things, most notably installing usb_modeswitch, and putting this into /etc/devd.conf : attach 100 { device-name "ugen[0-9]+"; match "vendor" "0x12d1"; match "product" "0x1446"; action "/usr/local/bin/usb_modeswitch"; }; Running kldload for u3g and ucom indicates they are both already loaded. Running usb_modeswitch seems to have also generated some /dev/ttyU. files, along with corresponding lock and init files - just like the cua entries. The only thing that seems out of place with the current setup is that usb_modeswitch's wrapper (usb_modeswitch_dispatcher) needs /usr/local/bin/tclsh, and for some reason the FreeBSD installer installed it as /usr/local/bin/tclsh8.2 I'll try fixing the above tomorrow and will try out anything you/someone else might have to suggest. BTW, I made a slight error in my original message. My system's release version is 8.1, not 8.0. Thank you & Regards Manish Jain [1]invalid.poin...@gmail.com On 29-Jun-11 00:16, Matthias Apitz wrote: El dÃa Tuesday, June 28, 2011 a las 01:47:31PM +0530, Manish Jain escribió: Hi all, My tata-photon (huawei) modem works painlessly on Win XP. Every setting is auto (including getting the nameserver). The auth protocol is CHAP. But when I boot into FreeBSD 8.0 (stable), and run 'ppp -auto pmdemand' followed by 'ping [1]www.google.com' (or yahoo or any other site, for that matter), I always get "Hostname lookup failure". BTW, I don't have an /etc/resolv.conf. I only configured ppp.conf (please see below for details). Can someone please help me set up the modem so that I can dial out and connect to the internet from my FreeBSD box ? Thanks in advance. Manish Jain This is my ppp.conf : ... Hello Manish, Before digging into the ppp details (there is a log about in /var/log/ppp.log), do you have after attaching the Huawei modem a device /dev/cuaU0 at all? What does the following command gives: ls -l /dev/cua* chat -vs < /dev/cuaU0.0 > /dev/cuaU0.0 '' AT OK 'ATI2' O printf "\n" HIH matthias References 1. mailto:invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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: Can someone please help me set up my tata-photon (huawei) modem ?
Hello Matthias, Yes, I do have /dev/cuaU0.0 along with corresponding lock and init files, although I cannot give you the output you want right now since I am booted into XP with the FreeBSD 8.2 dvd image being downloaded. (This will hopefully finish in about 15 hours, as cygwin::ncftpget suggests). I also tried a few other things, most notably installing usb_modeswitch, and putting this into /etc/devd.conf : attach 100 { device-name "ugen[0-9]+"; match "vendor" "0x12d1"; match "product" "0x1446"; action "/usr/local/bin/usb_modeswitch"; }; Running kldload for u3g and ucom indicates they are both already loaded. Running usb_modeswitch seems to have also generated some /dev/ttyU. files, along with corresponding lock and init files - just like the cua entries. The only thing that seems out of place with the current setup is that usb_modeswitch's wrapper (usb_modeswitch_dispatcher) needs /usr/local/bin/tclsh, and for some reason the FreeBSD installer installed it as /usr/local/bin/tclsh8.2 I'll try fixing the above tomorrow and will try out anything you/someone else might have to suggest. BTW, I made a slight error in my original message. My system's release version is 8.1, not 8.0. Thank you & Regards Manish Jain [1]invalid.poin...@gmail.com On 29-Jun-11 00:16, Matthias Apitz wrote: El dÃa Tuesday, June 28, 2011 a las 01:47:31PM +0530, Manish Jain escribió: Hi all, My tata-photon (huawei) modem works painlessly on Win XP. Every setting is auto (including getting the nameserver). The auth protocol is CHAP. But when I boot into FreeBSD 8.0 (stable), and run 'ppp -auto pmdemand' followed by 'ping [1]www.google.com' (or yahoo or any other site, for that matter), I always get "Hostname lookup failure". BTW, I don't have an /etc/resolv.conf. I only configured ppp.conf (please see below for details). Can someone please help me set up the modem so that I can dial out and connect to the internet from my FreeBSD box ? Thanks in advance. Manish Jain This is my ppp.conf : ... Hello Manish, Before digging into the ppp details (there is a log about in /var/log/ppp.log), do you have after attaching the Huawei modem a device /dev/cuaU0 at all? What does the following command gives: ls -l /dev/cua* chat -vs < /dev/cuaU0.0 > /dev/cuaU0.0 '' AT OK 'ATI2' O printf "\n" HIH matthias References 1. mailto:invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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"
Can someone please help me set up my tata-photon (huawei) modem ?
Hi all, My tata-photon (huawei) modem works painlessly on Win XP. Every setting is auto (including getting the nameserver). The auth protocol is CHAP. But when I boot into FreeBSD 8.0 (stable), and run 'ppp -auto pmdemand' followed by 'ping [1]www.google.com' (or yahoo or any other site, for that matter), I always get "Hostname lookup failure". BTW, I don't have an /etc/resolv.conf. I only configured ppp.conf (please see below for details). Can someone please help me set up the modem so that I can dial out and connect to the internet from my FreeBSD box ? Thanks in advance. Manish Jain This is my ppp.conf : default: set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command allow users guru bourne # ident user-ppp VERSION (built COMPILATIONDATE) set device /dev/cuaU0 set speed 115200 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \ \"\" AT OK-AT-OK AT&FE0V1X1&D2&C1S0=0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" set timeout 180 # 3 minute idle timer (the default) enable dns # request DNS info (for resolv.conf) pmdemand: set phone "#777" set login set authname "internet" set authkey "" set timeout 0 disable ipv6cp set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR accept CHAP References 1. http://www.google.com/ ___ 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"
expr problem
Hi Dino, It looks to me like you don't want to FreeBSD's expr (pretty much like me). You probably want to install the GNU version, which I think is available in the coreutils port. Let me know if this helps. Regards Manish Jain ___ 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"
How to get Huawei USB modem to work ?
Hello, From a similar thread, I picked up some information that I should try kldload'ing usba. But when I ran the command, I got an error message that there is no such module. I searched under sys/modules and there was no usba.ko Can somebody please tell me how to get my Huawei USB dial-up modem to work on FreeBSD 8.1 ? From dmesg, I have the following information : Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad8s2a ugen0.3: at usbus0 u3g0: on usbus0 u3g0: Found 3 ports. umass0: on usbus0 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0 cd0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd0: 1.000MB/s transfers cd0: cd present [16896 x 2048 byte records] (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 20 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): CAM status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): SCSI status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): SCSI sense: NOT READY asc:3a,0 (Medium not present) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 1 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present drm0: on vgapci0 info: [drm] MSI enabled 1 message(s) vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Manish Jain ___ 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"
How to go about installing drivers for Huawei EC1261 USB stick+modem on FreeBSD ?
Hi, This is the first time I am using ppp on FreeBSD : till now I had exclusively used ethernet. I just purchased a Huawei USB stick+modem and I need to configure PPP for it. Can somebody kindly give me a pointer to what steps I need to follow ? I don't know the list of drivers I need to install to get internet up. I don't care much about the stick's mass storage capabilities; it is the modem I am interested in enabling. Would be really nice if someone could post a sample ppp.conf. Thanks Manish Jain ___ 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: Question about expr
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 27), Manish Jain said: I am used to the normal GNU-version of expr (also available on Solaris) and much prefer it over the FreeBSD version. The GNU version allows internal commands like length, substring and others which make it much easier to work with. Is there any way I can replace FreeBSD's native expr with the GNU version ? Since I believe expr does not normally ship as a shell-builtin, I don't think the shell can of much help in the matter. Actually, I think it might not be a bad idea to place a port of GNU-expr in the ports directory. This would allow a lot a scripts to be readily portable to multiple environments. It's part of the coreutils package. If you install the sysutils/coreutils port, you can symlink /bin/expr over to it (or make a copy). I don't know if it's 100% compatible with BSD expr, though, so you may end up breaking scripts in the base system. Hello Dan, Thanks for the info. But I don't intend to symlink /bin/expr over to it. Instead I'll just create an alias in bash's profile and my scripts. That should let core scripts execute with /bin/expr and my scripts to use the GNU-version. Which actually leads me to second question : When you execute a script, it will automatically pick up the exports in .bash_profile. But even if you manually source bash's profile at the start of your script, only the exports get picked up and the aliases are ignored. Is there some way to fix this so that I don't have to set an alias for expr at the top each time I write a script ? Thanks & Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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"
Question about expr
Hello all, I am used to the normal GNU-version of expr (also available on Solaris) and much prefer it over the FreeBSD version. The GNU version allows internal commands like length, substring and others which make it much easier to work with. Is there any way I can replace FreeBSD's native expr with the GNU version ? Since I believe expr does not normally ship as a shell-builtin, I don't think the shell can of much help in the matter. Actually, I think it might not be a bad idea to place a port of GNU-expr in the ports directory. This would allow a lot a scripts to be readily portable to multiple environments. Thanks for any help. Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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: Need sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset
Hello Warren/Polytropon, Thanks a lot for the information. As Polytropon stated, xorg.conf is generally not needed nowadays. So I just did a startx and things worked out fine. However, this behaviour is more Windowish than Unixish. I would like to remember the -configure option for my own sake. Thanks again to you and Polytropon. Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, manish jain wrote: I just installed FreeBSD-8.0-i386 on my office system. I can't find anything like the xf86cfg/xf86config tools for configuring X that used to come with FreeBSD earlier. The only utility I could find is xorg-edit, but this is nowhere as user-friendly as the earlier tools. Xorg -configure will create a very basic xorg.conf. Usually I just copy the Device section out of that and into one of my own configs where all the excess has been removed. Can somebody please send me a sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset (384 MB video RAM) and a PNP Dell LCD monitor which is happiest @ (1440X900 resolution/ 32-bit colour / 60 Hz refresh) in Windows ? The keyboard and mouse are standard USB. First, check the Handbook X11 configuration section to see what it says about hal and dbus. It describes both using them and running without. I assume the default file location remains unchanged : /etc/X11/xorg.conf That works, yes. Here's a slightly-modified copy of the xorg.conf from my netbook, which uses hal and dbus. You'll probably need to change the BusID to match your system. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "AA1 Manually Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0660 EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "NoAccel"# [] #Option "SWcursor" # [] #Option "ColorKey" # #Option "CacheLines" # #Option "Dac6Bit"# [] #Option "DRI"# [] #Option "NoDDC" # [] #Option "ShowCache" # [] #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # #Option "PageFlip" # [] Identifier "Card0" Driver "intel" VendorName "Intel Corporation" BoardName "Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" Option "Monitor-LVDS" "Monitor0" Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,VGA" Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" SubSection "Display" Virtual 1440 900 EndSubSection EndSection -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ 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"
Need sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset
Hello All, I just installed FreeBSD-8.0-i386 on my office system. I can't find anything like the xf86cfg/xf86config tools for configuring X that used to come with FreeBSD earlier. The only utility I could find is xorg-edit, but this is nowhere as user-friendly as the earlier tools. Can somebody please send me a sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset (384 MB video RAM) and a PNP Dell LCD monitor which is happiest @ (1440X900 resolution/ 32-bit colour / 60 Hz refresh) in Windows ? The keyboard and mouse are standard USB. I assume the default file location remains unchanged : /etc/X11/xorg.conf Thanks for any help Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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: Need help configuring upsd, sound and logo saver on freebsd 8.0
On 01/01/10 20:26, Matthew Seaman wrote: Manish Jain wrote: 3) For my console saver ('logo'), I get the following error message at boot-time : module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (logo_saver, 0x81044010, 0) error 19 Seems to be a long standing bug on amd64 systems: graphics based console screen savers don't work. Any of the text based screen savers will function correctly, although they don't look as nice. Cheers, Matthew Hello Matthew, Thanks for your reply. The only point that remains to be made is that I find the 'Cheers' at the end of your message quite ironic. Being the owner of 2 kittens, I must dutifully assert that there is nothing to cheer about under the current situation. For the three of us, it has been a long-standing favourite pastime to watch Chuck in action. We would miss football (for some reason called soccer in the US) games / cricket games / movies / all other forms of entertainment, just to wait and watch for Chuck to show up. My kittens never managed to grab him, despite numerous valiant efforts. But this never undermined the fascination all three of us shared for Chuck. If ever the FreeBSD operating system or AMD processors had a bug, this would be it. Above all, even to someone not in love with cats, having a genial and smiling mouse would be infinitely preferable to having such a nasty bug. Cheers Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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"
Need help configuring upsd, sound and logo saver on freebsd 8.0
Hello All, I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0 on my amd64 system attached to an APC UPS via USB and a RealTek HDA onboard soundcard. I chose 'logo' as the screensaver during installation, and put snd_hda_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf and upsd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. On booting, the sound driver gets loaded successfully and the APC UPS is also detected (although there is no mention of the UPS in the output of dmesg). I have the following problems : 1) There is no sound. AFAIK, there is a sysctl parameter to be tuned for setting the correct audio channel (in my case hdac1), but I have forgotten the parameter name. Can someone please remind me ? 2) upsd complains of inappropriate ioctl no matter which USB device node I set in /usr/local/etc/upsd.conf. How can I set the device name correctly so that the OS can shut itself down properly on extended power failure ? 3) For my console saver ('logo'), I get the following error message at boot-time : module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (logo_saver, 0x81044010, 0) error 19 Happy New Year and Thanks for any help Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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"
Looking for a convenient way in C to retrieve CPU and memory usage of a process
Hello, I am looking for a convenient way using C to retrieve the current CPU and memory utilization of a process of which I have the pid. Can somebody please give me a hint of which system-calls/library-functions to use for this ? I don't want to use the system() function or grep for information via the /proc filesystem. I would be grateful if you could also please mention whether the suggested method[s] is/are FreeBSD-specific or would be portable to other environments like Solaris/Linux ? Thanks for any help. Regards & Happy New Year Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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-questions Digest, Vol 290, Issue 12
Hello, I am looking a convenient way using C to retrieve the current CPU and memory utilization of a process of which I have the pid. Can somebody please give me a hint of which system-calls/library-functions to use for this ? I don't want to use the system() function or grep for information via the /proc filesystem. I would be grateful if you could also please mention whether the suggested method[s] is/are FreeBSD-specific or would be portable to other environments like Solaris/Linux ? Thanks for any help. Regards & Happy New Year Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: Send freebsd-questions mailing list submissions to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org You can reach the person managing the list at freebsd-questions-ow...@freebsd.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of freebsd-questions digest..." Today's Topics: 1. setlocale command is missing (Daniel Dvo??k) 2. Re: clicky driver (Roland Smith) 3. Package Dependency Issue (Joseph L. Casale) 4. Re: setlocale command is missing (Rolf G Nielsen) 5. Fwd: location of discussion of livefs (leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net) 6. Failed port upgrade (Rem P Roberti) 7. Re: freebsd for children (Ian Smith) 8. Re: clicky driver (Gary Kline) 9. Re: clicky driver (Gary Kline) 10. portaudit php vulnerabilities (Aleksandr Miroslav) 11. Re: Firefox 3.5 and Epiphany crashing since the GNOME 2.28 update (Neil Short) 12. Re: portaudit php vulnerabilities (Nerius Landys) 13. ANNOUNCE: 64 bit 8.0-RELEASE-p1 Custom XFCE build available (Manolis Kiagias) 14. Re: freebsd for children (Dh?nin Jean-Jacques) 15. Punam Chowhan sent you a private message on Feed Share - pleaserespond (Punam Chowhan) 16. Re: location of discussion of lives (Matthew Seaman) 17. Re: clicky driver (Matthew Seaman) 18. Re: Wireless USB adapter (Paul B Mahol) 19. Re: clicky driver (Nick Barnes) 20. Re: Upgrade 7.0 to 7.2 installworld failed - SOLVED (Colin) 21. Re: Firefox 3.5 and Epiphany crashing since the GNOME 2.28 update (Anh Ky Huynh) 22. Re: portaudit php vulnerabilities (Jerry) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:04:44 +0100 From: Daniel Dvo??k Subject: setlocale command is missing To: Message-ID: <9ffca7e178c44c10994e4c52ac40e...@tocnet28.jspoj.czf> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi, I updated a mc port to the last one, version 4.7.0pre4 and wanted to run mc, but mc display a warning message that the selected display charset or source codeset does not match one set via locale. I have never seen this message since I am a user of mc. Propably it is something new in this new version. The version 4.6.2 does not show you this message durring starting application. I wanted to set my locale, but I found out that command setlocale is missing on FreeBSD 7.2. Files in directory /etc: login.conf, login.conf.db, csh.login and profile are set as HANDBOOK recommends for language localization. My shells are bash, tcsh or zsh, csh for root user. The results are the same. bash: [u...@server ~]$ LC_ALL=ISO-8859-2; export LC_ALL -bash: varovánÃÂ: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (ISO-8859-2): No such file or directory zsh: server% setlocale LC_ALL ISO-8859-2 zsh: command not found: setlocale tcsh: setlocale LC_ALL ISO-8859-2 setlocale: Command not found. root csh: server# setlocale LC_ALL ISO-8859-2 setlocale: Command not found. So my simple question is why is setlocale command missing in FreeBSD 7.2 ? And if user could not use locale and setlocale commands like on Linux, how can I solve my problem with new version of MC ? The mc message: Confirmation Chosen display charset (Settings->Display bits) or source codeset (in mcedit ctrl-t) does not match one set via locale. Set correct codeset manually or press <> to set locale default. Or set 'don' task again' and press <> [ ] don't ask again [< Fix it >] [ Skip ] BTW in mc there is not any settings with display bits, there is only options menu with display bits. Wrong help dialogs ? Thank you Daniel -- Message: 2 Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:43:56 +0100 From: Roland Smith Subject: Re: clicky driver To: Gary Kline Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20091226014356.gb10...@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:47:49PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote
Re: A question for developers
Hi Steve, Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. However, you can try the my set instead which took me days to fine-tune to my liking. (But first, put the following line into your .vimrc : map :syntax on :so ~/syntax.vim Then after starting gvim, press F12. That's the wat I do it.) ~/syntax.vim contents : hi Cursor guifg=white guibg=black hi Identifier guifg=black gui=bold hi NonText guibg=grey72 "black hi Normal guifg=black hi Statement guifg=black hi shFunction guifg=black gui=bold "grey30 hi Comment guifg=grey30 hi shCommandSub guifg=grey30 gui=bold "red hi Constant guifg=red hi Directory guifg=red hi cFormat guifg=red gui=bold "light-brown hi shSpecial guifg=#b07030 hi SpecialKey guifg=#b07030 hi shOption guifg=#b07030 hi shCase guifg=#b07030 "green hi Special guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi shExprRegion guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi PreProc guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi Statement guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi Repeat guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi shRepeat guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi shConditional guifg=#007700 gui=bold hi shStatement guifg=#007700 gui=bold "deep-blue hi Type guifg=#99 gui=bold hi shShellVariables guifg=#99 hi shVariable guifg=#99 "muddy brown hi String guifg=#dd4400 hi shString guifg=#dd4400 "black on yellow hi IncSearch guibg=yellow guifg=black hi Search guibg=yellow guifg=black hi Question guibg=yellow guifg=black "other hi Operator guifg=#0088ee gui=bold "blue hi shOperator guifg=#0088ee gui=bold hi StorageClass guifg=#bb0099 gui=bold "purplish hi SpecialChar guifg=#00aa88 gui=bold "greenish cyan -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
AP#1 on Phy#1 : The reason on my system
Hi, A long time back, I had reported getting AP#1 on Phy#1 error messages and boot failure on my amd64 system. After many tests, I am convinced the problem occurs only if a USB mouse is plugged in at boot-time. A few days back, I finally got a USB-to-PS2 converter and hooked my mouse into a PS2 port, with USB mouse support disabled in the BIOS. I've never had this problem since then. So it's pretty certain that the USB mouse was the source of the boot-failures. Since Windows never had any boot problems with the USB mouse, I think this might be an issue for the FreeBSD kernel developers. If this helps anyone or clears any doubts, I can only be glad. (NB : I also have a report from a friend of mine using amd64 with debian-5.02 that debian has pretty much the same problem. He has taken my advice and is now hooking the mouse into the PS/2 port with good results). Thank you& -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
Strange behaviour on Gnome with FreeBSD-7.2
Hello, This message was earlier posted to freebsd-gnome, from where there was no response. I am consequently re-posting to freebsd-questions in hope of something better. I had FreeBSD-7.2 on my system a few days back, but had to reinstall it afresh last week. In the new install, I did not install any packages from the distribution media. Instead I built everything from ports. The previous installation used gnome packages from the distribution media itself. There is one problem that I faced with the old installation and am facing with the new installation as well. Upon startx, all font sizes (application, desktop, document, fixed, window title) are always one unit less (in size) compared to what they are set. The moment I right-click on the desktop and select 'Change desktop background', the font sizes get incremented to the correct values everywhere. With the new installation, I am facing additional - and much more serious - problems, maybe on account of something I have missed. 1) Window applications which normally remember their size and position (eg, Nautilus) have lost this capability. Now I have to resize and reposition these windows each time I exec gnome-session from .xinitrc 2) Resizing/repositioning windows happens in slow, jittery movements with the display getting wavy till the window is dropped into its desired size/position 3) Scrolling up and down a window (eg in Firefox3, Nautilus) using the mouse or the scrollbar is painfully slow, with the display again getting highly wavy. If anybody has any clue what could possibly be wrong with my setup, I would be grateful to find out what. Thanks in advance -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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: Urgent help needed : portmaster dies on py-cairo
b. f. wrote: On 7/6/09, manish jain wrote: 2009/7/6 b. f. After running pkgdb -F, I find that there hundreds of ports depending on python2.5. Most of these are probably indirectly dependent, and may not be seriously affected. Many, for example, may have been dragged in by xorg's silly dependency on python via libxcb. Looks to me it will be easier to backup my dstfiles and reinstall the whole system afresh a 3rd time rather than trying to fix the existing ports. This time I will install no packages from the installation media, and build directly from ports instead. The first 2 ports I will build this time will be lang/python26 followed by lang/python. Sounds good. I suppose this should set the systemwide default python version to 2.6. As the others have mentioned, you don't need to do this unless you wish to use a version of python other than 2.6, which is now the default. 1) How do I find or set PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION ? 2) What workaround would be needed in make.conf to get 2.5-hardwired ports to use 2.6 instead ? 1) See above. 2) I didn't mean, as Seaman seemed to think, and you may have, that you can use ports built against 2.5 with 2.6. That would only rarely work, and most likely lead to all sorts of problems. Instead you should proceed with your plan, and rebuild all dependent ports via: pkgdb -L pkgdb -F portupgrade -fvrx lang/python26 lang/python26 rm -r /usr/local/lib/python2.5 or rebuild just that subset of ports that are most likely to be broken by the change, via the upgrade-site-packages target in lang/python, as Seaman suggested. What I meant by my original comment was, that if you should happen to want to build a port against 2.6, but find that it is hardwired in the port Makefile via USE_PYTHON to another version or versions, and you don't want to go to the trouble of patching the port Makefile, and then preserving this local modification when you merge in updates to the port tree, you can add a workaround in /etc/make.conf. Say, for example, you see that mail/py-spambayes has: USE_PYTHON= -2.5 in the port Makefile, and you want to install spambayes, but you don't want to have to reinstall python 2.5 or an earlier version of python. If you add: .if${.CURDIR:M*/mail/py-spambayes*} PYTHON_VERSION=python2.6 NO_IGNORE=yes .endif to /etc/make.conf, you can override the spambayes port Makefile without patching it. Now, you are _not_ supposed to do this, and you will probably have to deal with any consequences of such a local change on your own. Many ports have these restrictions for a good reason, but such an override can be occasionally useful. b. Hi, After a marathon session spread over 2 days, I have managed to set up a new FreeBSD-7.2 installation with all ports (762) up to date. From the gleanings of this conversation and some reading I did myself, I have compiled a small document for what-to-do-after-installation. I would dearly appreciate your comments on the document, and would be extremely glad if my document could be of any help to somebody else too. Please note that portupgrade works much better on my system than portmaster. So the following document assumes/recommends using portupgrade. Here it is. == Part-1)Immediately after a fresh FreeBSD-7.2#RELEASE install : I assume you will at some stage or the other install a linux port, eg acroread8 or acroread9, linux-ymessenger, etc. Incidentally, unless you have specific needs, prefer acroread8 over acroread9. All following steps are to be executed as root. a)Make sure /etc/rc.conf has at least the following 5 lines. dbus_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" polkitd_enable="YES" gnome_enable="YES" linux_enable="YES" b)Make sure /boot/loader.conf has at least the following 3 lines. kern.maxdsiz="734003200" linprocfs_load="YES" linsysfs_load="YES" c)Make sure /etc/fstab has at least the following 3 lines. proc/proc procfs rw00 linproc /usr/compat/linux/proclinprocfsrw00 linsys /usr/compat/linux/sys linsysfs rw0 0 d)Upgrage from python25 to python26 along with all dependent ports as follows : rm -rf /usr/ports 2>/dev/null mkdir -p /usr/ports/distfiles portsnap fetch extract cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade make deinstall 2>/dev/null make install clean portupgrade -C -r -o lang/python26 lang/python25 portupgrade -rfx python26 python26 pkgdb -F Before doing anything further, reboot. Immediately after reboot, execute Part-2. Part-2) Steps to be followed whenever a significant number new ports/patches are available and you need to ensure your ports as well as your ports directory are up to date : thisdate=`date &q
Re: Urgent help needed : portmaster dies on py-cairo
2009/7/6 b. f. > Manish Jain wrote: > > >After 3-4 hours, portsnap died on graphics/py-cairo saying : > >cannot find python headers > > I'm guessing you meant "portmaster died" here ... > > >/usr/ports/graphics/py-cairo/work/pycairo-1.8.4/config.log says : > >configure:4734: cc -E -I/usr/local/include conftest.c > >conftest.c:10:28: error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory > >configure:4741: $? = 1 > > > >cd /usr > >find . -name 'ac_nonexistent.h' > >#no results > > As the name suggests, this header doesn't really exist. It's just a > dummy header used during a test in the configure script to see how the > compiler reacts when a header isn't there, in preparation for testing > for the presence of real headers. That shouldn't be the problem: are > you sure the configure script really failed at that point? If so, > something is probably wrong with your compiler or toolchain, and > that's usually bad news. :( > > >py-cairo-1.8.4 needs python2.6. My system has both python2.5 and > >python2.6 installed, with their headers under > >/usr/local/include/python2.5 and /usr/local/include/python2.6 > >respectively. > > Why do you have both versions installed? 2.6 is largely > backwards-compatible with 2.5, so why not just rip out 2.5 and use 2.6 > exclusively? You'll save some trouble and disk space. Make sure your > ports tree is up-to-date, so that PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION defaults to > python2.6. Then deinstall lang/python25 and reinstall lang/python26. > In particular, check to see that /usr/local/bin/python is present is a > link to /usr/local/bin/python2.6. If it isn't, then something is > wrong -- perhaps you have PYTHON_VERSION or PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION > defined to the wrong value, or your ports tree is corrupt. Then > rebuild all of the ports that depend upon python, and remove any > vestige of the old /usr/local/lib/python2.5 directory tree. If you've > stale ports that are still wired to use python2.5 for no good reason, > you can patch them or their port Makefiles, or put a workaround in > make.conf. > > >Any help on enabling py-cairo locate the python headers would be > >greatly appreciated. > > What is the output of: > > "make -C /usr/ports/graphics/py-cairo -V CONFIGURE_ENV" > > If PYTHON is in there, properly defined as the path to the python2.6 > binary, and the binary actually exists, then the configure script > should succeed. If not, something is wrong. The configure script > uses: > > PYTHON_INCLUDES=`$PYTHON-config --includes 2>/dev/null` to find the > proper Python.h. Is /usr/local/bin/python2.6-config missing or broken > on your system? What about /usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h? > > b. > Hello B, Thanks for your help. After running pkgdb -F, I find that there hundreds of ports depending on python2.5. Looks to me it will be easier to backup my dstfiles and reinstall the whole system afresh a 3rd time rather than trying to fix the existing ports. This time I will install no packages from the installation media, and build directly from ports instead. The first 2 ports I will build this time will be lang/python26 followed by lang/python. I suppose this should set the systemwide default python version to 2.6. Before I undertake this 3rd attempt, I request a few clarifications so that everything comes out fine this time around. >> something is wrong -- perhaps you have PYTHON_VERSION or PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION >> defined to the wrong value, or your ports tree is corrupt. Then >> rebuild all of the ports that depend upon python, and remove any >> vestige of the old /usr/local/lib/python2.5 directory tree. If you've >> stale ports that are still wired to use python2.5 for no good reason, >> you can patch them or their port Makefiles, or put a workaround in >> make.conf. 1) How do I find or set PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION ? 2) What workaround would be needed in make.conf to get 2.5-hardwired ports to use 2.6 instead ? Thanks for any help. Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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"
Urgent help needed : portmaster dies on py-cairo
Hi, This is not a portmaster problem, but a problem of getting py-cairo to build following an update in the ports directory. 3 days back I ran 'portsnap fetch extract'. Then yesterday I ran 'portsnap fetch update' followed immediately by 'portmaster -a -B' After 3-4 hours, portsnap died on graphics/py-cairo saying : cannot find python headers /usr/ports/graphics/py-cairo/work/pycairo-1.8.4/config.log says : configure:4734: cc -E -I/usr/local/include conftest.c conftest.c:10:28: error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory configure:4741: $? = 1 cd /usr find . -name 'ac_nonexistent.h' #no results py-cairo-1.8.4 needs python2.6. My system has both python2.5 and python2.6 installed, with their headers under /usr/local/include/python2.5 and /usr/local/include/python2.6 respectively. Any help on enabling py-cairo locate the python headers would be greatly appreciated. My system is totally messed up, half of it updated by portmaster and the other half waiting for the update once py-cairo can locate the python headers. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Questions on portmaster
b. f. wrote: Manish Jain wrote: ...Does each child start 'make fetch' in the background ? make checksum, yes. Further, how can portmaster be tuned to automatically ignore ports which are actually marked as IGNORE in the port directory ? This is not covered in the manpage. It respects IGNORE (it checks for it in the port Makefile, and also hands off to bsd.port.mk, which respects it). If you mean +IGNOREME, the others have answered your question. While doing portmaster -a, I have only managed to stop portmaster from building exactly one port specified with the -x option. Can I get to stop multiple ports from being built ? Is there regular expression support for the -x option ? Not in the sense that you mean, at least that I'm aware of. This one of the things that needs improvement. It is a bit awkward, because it uses the shell's built-in POSIX getopts to parse options, and then calls itself recursively. One way you could fix it would be to apply a patch like: --- portmaster.orig 2009-07-01 12:36:14.0 -0400 +++ portmaster 2009-07-01 18:55:59.0 -0400 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ if [ -z "$PARENT_PID" ]; then PARENT_PID=$$ : ${TMPDIR:=/tmp} - UPGRADE_TOOL=portmaster + UPGRADE_TOOL=$0 # /usr/local is needed in the path for make PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin @@ -788,7 +788,11 @@ u) UNATTENDED=uopt; ARGS="-u $ARGS" ;; v) PM_VERBOSE=vopt; ARGS="-v $ARGS" ;; w) SAVE_SHARED=wopt; ARGS="-w $ARGS" ;; - x) EXCL=$OPTARG ;; + x) if [ -z "${OPTARG%%-*}" ]; then + fail 'The -x option requires an argument' + else + EXCL="-x $OPTARG $EXCL" + fi ;; *) echo '' ; echo "===>>> Try ${0##*/} --help"; exit 1 ;; esac done @@ -810,10 +814,7 @@ [ -n "$FETCH_ONLY" -a -n "$NO_RECURSIVE_CONFIG" ] && fail "The -F and -G options are mutually exclusive" if [ -n "$EXCL" ]; then - case "$EXCL" in - -*) fail 'The -x option requires an argument' ;; - *) ARGS="-x $EXCL $ARGS" ;; - esac + ARGS="$EXCL $ARGS" fi #=== Begin functions for getopts features and main === @@ -1461,14 +1462,17 @@ check_exclude () { [ -n "$EXCL" ] || return 0 - case "$1" in - *${EXCL}*) - if [ -n "$PM_VERBOSE" ]; then - echo "===>>> Skipping $1" - echo " because it matches the pattern: *${EXCL}*" - fi - return 1 ;; - esac + for pkgglob in `echo "$EXCL" | sed -e 's#-x##g'` + do + case "$1" in + *${pkgglob}*) + if [ -n "$PM_VERBOSE" ]; then + echo "===>>> Skipping $1" + echo " because it matches the pattern: *${pkgglob}*" + fi + return 1 ;; + esac ; + done return 0 } (Mind the whitespace because of my MUA.) Then you could just use repeated -x flags, each with one and only one package glob that you wanted to exclude. I changed the definition of UPGRADE_TOOL so that you could put this script in your path under another name, say "jainpmaster", and then call it independently of the original portmaster. As usual, I make no claim that this is the best, only, or most elegant way to do this. Regards, b. Hello BF/Roland, Thanks for the clarifications. Regarding the download speeds I was getting with portmaster fetches (0.7 kBps to 4.0 kBps), I immediately booted into Windows/Cygwin and did a wget from the same site portmaster was using. The speed I got from wget was ~ 35 kBps. This happened not just once but multiple times. Each time I did this, I had to interrupt portmaster. Finally I managed to get to install the wget port on FreeBSD itself. When I ran wget from FreeBSD, it reported comparable transfer rates (~ 35 kBps) from the same sites as portmaster was using. It respects IGNORE (it checks for it in the port Makefile, and also hands off to bsd.port.mk, which respects it). I got a curl port from portsnap marked IGNORE. portmaster did not ignore it anywhere near gracefully enough and finally killed off all child processes and itself. The IGNOREME way is fine for me for avoiding multiple ports I know beforehand I do not want to build. But if a portsnap update creates an IGNORE port, portmaster should be skipping it entirely rather than having to kill all child processes and itself. In my experience, this did not happen.
Questions on portmaster
Hi, I am using portmaster on FreeBSD-7.2 to keep my ports up to date. When there are multiple ports to be updated, portmaster will fork off child processes. Does each child start 'make fetch' in the background ? I ask this because the parent process attached to the console reports very low data transfer rates (in the range of 0.7 to 4.0 kBps, while normally I get 30 to 35 kBps). Further, how can portmaster be tuned to automatically ignore ports which are actually marked as IGNORE in the port directory ? This is not covered in the manpage. While doing portmaster -a, I have only managed to stop portmaster from building exactly one port specified with the -x option. Can I get to stop multiple ports from being built ? Is there regular expression support for the -x option ? Thanks for any help. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: Firefox: Video but no audio
Hi Carmel, Do you have problems with sound only on Firefox ? If your problem is that you can't get sound with any application, then please see the output of 'cat /dev/sndstat'. If you get nothing, then you probably don't have an appropriate sound driver loaded. If you have an Intel-based board, try putting snd_ich_load="YES" and snd_hda_load="YES" into your /boot/loader.conf If your problem is Firefox-specific, then try editing Tools->Options. On the Applications tab, see whether you have an entry for MP3 Format Sounds and that it set to something reasonable. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: The question of moving vi to /bin
Daniel Underwood wrote: How did "The question of moving vi to /bin" end up as two different conversations for me in gmail? Hello Daniel, When I did a 'Reply to All', the moderator blocked the posting claiming too high a number of recipients. I cancelled the posting, and resent it using 'Reply to Sender'. I don't know whether the original posting itself got through as well. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: Firefox crashes on yahoo.com
Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 02:24:03PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Have you tried Firefox3.5? It's in ports as www/firefox3-devel. I just tried Yahoo! and had no problems. I tried yahoo with firefox3 on 7.2-RELEASE-p2 amd64 without problems. The problem is not restricted to firefox or yahoo.com. There are other sites too where this happens. I built Galeon from ports, and it shows exactly the same behaviour as firefox2/firefox3 for those sites. So does Epiphany (installed from the distribution media). I doubt whether firefox-3.5 could solve the problem. This seems to be a problem with a core library in X or one of the graphics libraries. Are your ports up-to-date? Use portsnap(8) [first time: 'portsnap fetch extract', afterwards 'portsnap fetch update'] to update your ports tree and then portmaster(8) ['portmaster -a -B -d']. If your ports are up-to-date, try rebuilding libX11 and the ports it depends on ['portmaster -f -x libX11']. Roland Hi Roland, I traced the problem. It's related to flash. When I disable the flash plugin, Firefox works smoothly. I suspect a lot of sites are using a new version of flash, which doesn't go down well with the existing browsers. I run portsnap and portmaster through a daily cron, so the ports directory is always up-to-date. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: Firefox crashes on yahoo.com
Frank Shute wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:31:09PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Hi, This seems to be a strange problem with Firefox which I never encountered on my old system. Both Firefox2 and Firefox3 work well the other sites I have tried accessing, but crash on navigating to www.yahoo.com /usr/home/emmjanex # firefox3 http://www.yahoo.com & [1] 2668 /usr/home/emmjanex # NP_Initialize New SetWindow SetWindow NewStream WriteReady Write decoding... The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadImplementation (server does not implement operation)'. (Details: serial 31 error_code 17 request_code 140 minor_code 5) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) [1]+ Exit 1 firefox3 http://www.yahoo.com There is nothing relevant to the crash in Xorg.0.log or console.log Have you tried Firefox3.5? It's in ports as www/firefox3-devel. I just tried Yahoo! and had no problems. Regards, Hi Frank, The problem is not restricted to firefox or yahoo.com. There are other sites too where this happens. I built Galeon from ports, and it shows exactly the same behaviour as firefox2/firefox3 for those sites. So does Epiphany (installed from the distribution media). I doubt whether firefox-3.5 could solve the problem. This seems to be a problem with a core library in X or one of the graphics libraries. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: The question of moving vi to /bin
Hi, I agree that vi is nowhere as easy to use as ee. Since a lot of people seem to be happy with ee, why not make it available under /bin so that that there is an easy-to-use, readily-working editor always available, even if you are in single-user mode ? That in fact was the essence of this entire thread. The thing is /bin/ed and /rescue/vi have their unique problems and peculiarities. If at least there can be a general consensus that ee should be under /bin, a lot of people could possibly find it beneficial in emergencies. The problem again, I suspect, might be that moving ee to /bin would possibly need the terminal database to be kept under / directly, which goes against freebsd's obsession with a micro-minimalistic base. One solution might be to keep a pared-down version of the database that provides only for the most commonly used terminals to be placed under /, and single-user mode set up to use this database. Hi, I agree that vi is nowhere as easy to use as ee. Since a lot of people seem to be happy with ee, why not make it available under /bin so that that there is an easy-to-use, readily-working editor always available, even if you are in single-user mode ? That in fact was the essence of this entire thread. The thing is /bin/ed and /rescue/vi have their unique problems and peculiarities. If at least there can be a general consensus that ee should be under /bin, a lot of people could possibly find it beneficial in emergencies. The problem again, I suspect, might be that moving ee to /bin would possibly need the terminal database to be kept under / directly, which goes against freebsd's concept of a micro-minimalistic base. One solution might be to keep a pared-down version of the database that provides only for the most commonly used terminals placed under / and single-user mode set up to use this database. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
Other browsers show the same behaviour (Firefox crashes on yahoo.com)
The problem is not restricted to firefox or yahoo.com. There are other sites too where this happens. I built Galeon from ports, and it shows exactly the same behaviour as firefox2/firefox3 for those sites. So does Epiphany (installed from the distribution media). Hi, This seems to be a strange problem with Firefox which I never encountered on my old system. Both Firefox2 and Firefox3 work well the other sites I have tried accessing, but crash on navigating to www.yahoo.com /usr/home/emmjanex # firefox3 http://www.yahoo.com & [1] 2668 /usr/home/emmjanex # NP_Initialize New SetWindow SetWindow NewStream WriteReady Write decoding... The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadImplementation (server does not implement operation)'. (Details: serial 31 error_code 17 request_code 140 minor_code 5) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) [1]+ Exit 1 firefox3 http://www.yahoo.com There is nothing relevant to the crash in Xorg.0.log or console.log -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
Firefox crashes on yahoo.com
Hi, This seems to be a strange problem with Firefox which I never encountered on my old system. Both Firefox2 and Firefox3 work well the other sites I have tried accessing, but crash on navigating to www.yahoo.com /usr/home/emmjanex # firefox3 http://www.yahoo.com & [1] 2668 /usr/home/emmjanex # NP_Initialize New SetWindow SetWindow NewStream WriteReady Write decoding... The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadImplementation (server does not implement operation)'. (Details: serial 31 error_code 17 request_code 140 minor_code 5) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) [1]+ Exit 1 firefox3 http://www.yahoo.com There is nothing relevant to the crash in Xorg.0.log or console.log -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: The question of moving vi to /bin
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:36:31AM -0400, John L. Templer typed: ed is an interactive program, and it has always been considered as such, at least since BSD 4.2. Way back then there were three main editors, ex, vi, and ed. If you had a nice video terminal then you used vi. But if you were stuck using a hard copy terminal like a Decwriter, then you used ex. And ed was the simplified (dumbed down) editor for newbies. ed is an interactive program because the user "interacts" with it. You give it command, it does something, you give it some more commands, it does more stuff, etc. Interactive does not mean screen based. ed can be used very well non-interactively. e.g. a script made by diff -e can be piped to it. Ruben What I meant was the primary usage. Of course, there are many tools (ed included) which will allow non-interactive usage, and still others which can be tweaked or forced into that behaviour. The point about ed is that it does not live up to the needs of its primary mode. Somebody mentioned something about getting multi-line replacement functionality from ed that is not possible with sed. If only the gentleman would go through the documentation for a recent version of sed, he could save himself from a lot of further pain. This following link was posted a few days earlier from freebsd-questions itself : http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html There probably isn't much to compare between freebsd and cygwin, but cygwin has dropped ed (and afaik only ed) from its base distribution not for nothing. Maybe they were concerned about the bloat factor, and for good reason in ed's case. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: The question of moving vi to /bin
John L. Templer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manish Jain wrote: If you want to make a case for replacing ed(1), you're going to have to come up with some concrete reasons for doing so, not just make a (long and hyperbolic) statement that you don't like it. Any Unix tool has to clearly fall either under the category of non-interactive (grep, sed, ex) or interactive (vi, wget, sysinstall). Oh really? Many Unix programs have traditionally had both a command line mode of operation and an interactive mode, and that's still pretty much still true. Usually when you run a program you put arguments on the command line, and the program does what those arguments tell it to do. But for many programs, if you run them with no arguments they run in interactive mode and wait for the user to issue commands telling the program what to do. The case of non-interactive tools is simple : just do what you are told on the commandline and exit. For interactive tools, at a minimum, the application has to be show what data it is working on and what it does with the data when the user presses a key (or a series of them). ed was never meant to be non-interactive, and it does not fulfil the basic requirements of being interactive. That's one reason. Secondly, how many times does an average commandline user even think of using ed when he needs to edit a file, even in the extreme case where there are no alternatives ? ed is an interactive program, and it has always been considered as such, at least since BSD 4.2. Way back then there were three main editors, ex, vi, and ed. If you had a nice video terminal then you used vi. But if you were stuck using a hard copy terminal like a Decwriter, then you used ex. And ed was the simplified (dumbed down) editor for newbies. ed is an interactive program because the user "interacts" with it. You give it command, it does something, you give it some more commands, it does more stuff, etc. Interactive does not mean screen based. Till the improvements are in place, we need the alternative of having vi under /bin rather than /usr/bin. Actually, it surprises me to what extent the core of the FreeBSD community is enamoured with this idea of a micro-minimalistic base, in which it is practically impossible to do anything except run fsck. Matters don't stop there. Seeing the limitations of this approach, the community churns up wierd workarounds like /rescue/vi, when all that was needed was shift vi from /usr. You talk about the need for compliance with old hardware and embedded systems to save a few kilos. How old is the hardware that you have in mind ? The oldest system running FreeBSD I know of is a 1997 Pentium with a 2 GB disk, and even that can easily withstand the change I am suggesting. Machines older than that are actually DEAD and don't have to be factored in. As for embedded systems, the primary target of FreeBSD is servers, workstations and *tops. The embedded world hasn't survived riding on FreeBSD, nor the other way round. So from the viewpoint of the greatest good of the largest number, over-indulging a mindset fixed around minimizing the base only leads to degradation, not improvement. Getting to boast of a 900K / won't do any good when people are thinking of having decent firepower (even while in single-user mode) and its ease of use. It's not just keeping the core system small, it's ensuring that if the disk containing /usr fails to mount, then you still have enough of the system to fix the problem. Admittedly this isn't as much of a concern now, what with rescue disks and CDs with bootable live systems, but it's still nice to have. John L. Templer -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpDDM0ACgkQjkAlo11skePG4wCgjq4plp71Yattn34UP9YIyv4k VagAoKDcLGVPQBxae6FABGa5hLI9w4gM =+Ed7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Hi John, I really think you need to go through Unix's history again to get your facts anywhere close to reality. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: The question of moving vi to /bin
If you want to make a case for replacing ed(1), you're going to have to come up with some concrete reasons for doing so, not just make a (long and hyperbolic) statement that you don't like it. Any Unix tool has to clearly fall either under the category of non-interactive (grep, sed, ex) or interactive (vi, wget, sysinstall). The case of non-interactive tools is simple : just do what you are told on the commandline and exit. For interactive tools, at a minimum, the application has to be show what data it is working on and what it does with the data when the user presses a key (or a series of them). ed was never meant to be non-interactive, and it does not fulfil the basic requirements of being interactive. That's one reason. Secondly, how many times does an average commandline user even think of using ed when he needs to edit a file, even in the extreme case where there are no alternatives ? There have been some recent changes: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/194628 <http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/194628> that suggest that this problem is being addressed. Till the improvements are in place, we need the alternative of having vi under /bin rather than /usr/bin. Actually, it surprises me to what extent the core of the FreeBSD community is enamoured with this idea of a micro-minimalistic base, in which it is practically impossible to do anything except run fsck. Matters don't stop there. Seeing the limitations of this approach, the community churns up wierd workarounds like /rescue/vi, when all that was needed was shift vi from /usr. You talk about the need for compliance with old hardware and embedded systems to save a few kilos. How old is the hardware that you have in mind ? The oldest system running FreeBSD I know of is a 1997 Pentium with a 2 GB disk, and even that can easily withstand the change I am suggesting. Machines older than that are actually DEAD and don't have to be factored in. As for embedded systems, the primary target of FreeBSD is servers, workstations and *tops. The embedded world hasn't survived riding on FreeBSD, nor the other way round. So from the viewpoint of the greatest good of the largest number, over-indulging a mindset fixed around minimizing the base only leads to degradation, not improvement. Getting to boast of a 900K / won't do any good when people are thinking of having decent firepower (even while in single-user mode) and its ease of use. But I guess my words are of no use when the people who matter just won't listen. So I give any hopes in this regard. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
The question of moving vi to /bin
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:41:48 Manish Jain wrote: > I hope the next release will address these problems, as well as a pretty > reasonable request from me much earlier to move vi from /usr/bin to > /bin. Even in single-user mode, you almost always need an editor. Which is why you have ed(1) - both in /bin and in /rescue - and /rescue/vi (although that needs a bit of tweaking due to the /etc/termcap problem). Bear in mind that /usr/bin/vi is over 300K, compared to the whole of /bin which is ~950K (if you avoid double-counting entries like /bin/csh and /bin/tcsh which are hardlinks to the same file), so you need to convince people who think /bin should stay small to let it grow by a third to save people learning ed(1). Jonathan Hello Jonathan, About ed first. I might annoy a few people (which would gladden me in this particular case), but ed was just one of Ken Thompson's nightmares which he managed to reproduce in Unix with great precision. By no stretch of imagination would it qualify as an editor, because an editor can meaningfully edit only what it can first show. And ed has never had anything to show. A modern operating system like FreeBSD should really be kicking ed out of the distribution completely : bad ideas don't have to be necessarily perpetuated just for the sake of compliance with the original concept of Unix. and /rescue/vi (although that needs a bit of tweaking due to the /etc/termcap problem) That's the whole problem of /rescue/vi. When you suddenly find yourself in single-user mode, the last thing you want to do is realise that tweaking is needed for something which should work normally just when you need it, and quickly too. Bear in mind that /usr/bin/vi is over 300K Actually, the cost is more than 300K because the terminal database would have to be put into / too. But why are we talking about a few hundred kilos for such a basic utility as vi in times when everyone has hundreds of GB's on the disk, and the / partition itself is 512 MB by default. The BSD concept of having vi under /usr originated when resources were less by a factor of thousands (<= (100 MB disks), <= (8 MB physical RAM) and so on). When we are well past those kind of constraints, the concept needs an rethink. Actually, there is an even more radical update that I would have loved FreeBSD to have initiated. Instead, the credit has gone to Microsoft. The simple thing is when a system has multiple gigabytes of RAM, the OS should be able give an option to the user of completely doing away with swapping and force all the action in real, physical memory instead. This latter idea might still sound a bit far-fetched, but at least dumping ed and /rescue/vi to pave way for /bin/vi is certainly more than a workable idea. Till that happens, people like me might be forced to do outlandish things like copying /usr/local/bin/{bash,vim} to /bin and their associated libraries to /lib. I really mean copying, not moving - which could create problems with port/library upgrades at a later date. It works, is safe and easy, and requires no tweaking. Hope there are some takers. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start
Message: 11 Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:34:00 -0400 From: Jerry Subject: Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090620163400.62143...@scorpio.seibercom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:31:45 +0530 Manish Jain wrote: Looks like nobody at freebsd-questions has any answers for me. Maybe 7.2-x86 doesn't like newish amd hardware. post the output of: pciconf -lv as well as dmesg. Also your rc.conf and PolicyKit.conf files might be useful. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Hi, I have solved most of the problems listed in my previous message with help from Roland Smith. The fact still remains that FreeBSD-7.2 has some definite problems on AMD hardware : 1) On multi-core systems, the cores don't get initialized properly and you get messages like : "AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed !" followed by panic. The solution is to reboot, maybe as many as 6-7 times. 2) The uhub/ums module fails to load and /dev/ums0 consequently won't get created. The workaround is to unplug your USB mouse just before the boot process begins, and plug it back in once you get the console. I have googled for the above 2 problems and there seem to many folks suffering from the ills, with no solution except the ones I have listed above. And these problems almost always occur on AMD multi-core systems. I hope the next release will address these problems, as well as a pretty reasonable request from me much earlier to move vi from /usr/bin to /bin. Even in single-user mode, you almost always need an editor. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start
e Jun 20 02:24:42 pbbi kernel: info: [drm] Loading RS780 PFP Microcode Jun 20 02:24:42 pbbi kernel: info: [drm] Resetting GPU Jun 20 02:24:42 pbbi kernel: info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs Jun 20 02:24:42 pbbi kernel: drm0: [ITHREAD] Jun 20 02:24:43 pbbi console-kit-daemon[1135]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv failed Jun 20 02:24:43 pbbi gnome-session[7692]: WARNING: Unable to determine session: Unable to lookup session information for process '7692' Jun 20 02:24:53 pbbi gnome-session[7692]: WARNING: Application 'metacity.desktop' failed to register before timeout Jun 20 02:24:53 pbbi pulseaudio[7723]: main.c: Daemon startup without any loaded modules, refusing to work. Jun 20 02:24:53 pbbi console-kit-daemon[1135]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv failed Jun 20 02:24:54 pbbi console-kit-daemon[1135]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv failed Jun 20 02:53:30 pbbi console-kit-daemon[1135]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv failed Jun 20 02:53:30 pbbi gnome-session[7692]: WARNING: Unable to determine session: Unable to lookup session information for process '7692' Jun 20 02:53:30 pbbi console-kit-daemon[1135]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv failed Jun 20 02:53:30 pbbi gnome-session[7692]: WARNING: Unable to determine session: Unable to lookup session information for process '7692' Jun 20 02:53:31 pbbi console-kit-daemon[1135]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv failed Jun 20 02:53:31 pbbi gnome-session[7692]: WARNING: Unable to determine session: Unable to lookup session information for process '7692' Jun 20 02:53:32 pbbi kernel: info: [drm] Resetting GPU Jun 20 02:54:00 pbbi halt: halted by root Jun 20 02:54:00 pbbi syslogd: exiting on signal 15 dbus, hald, polkitd and gnome are all enabled in rc.conf. loader.conf looks like following : kern.maxdsiz="734003200" ums_load="YES" linprocfs_load="YES" linsysfs_load="YES" sound_load="YES" snd_hda_load="YES" -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
Now problems with mouse and sound (Re: In addition to -> 7.2 panic during installation : AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed !)
Hi, After 6-7 reboots, I managed to get the 7.2-RELEASE installation media to boot and install properly. 2 issues still remain however. 1) No sound : My Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H board has onboard Realtek High Definition Audio. Since I couldn't figure out which driver would work with this, I put sound_enable=YES and snd_driver_load=YES in loader.conf to load all available drivers. Gnome's Volume Control applet still remains crossed out in red, which would mean the system couldn't locate an appropriate driver. 2) No mouse : I am using a Logitech USB mouse and my rc.conf has moused_enable=YES, along with entries for the AUTO protocol and the /dev/ums0 device. However, at boot-time I get the message "Module uhub/ums failed to load : 17" followed by a complaint by moused that /dev/ums0 does not exist. There is no mouse cursor on the console at the time I get to the login prompt. There is a wierd way however of getting the mouse to work. Change it from one USB port to another 1-2 times and finally the kernel picks up the mouse and creates /dev/ums0, after which the cursor appears and the mouse works okay. But I have to do this everytime I boot FreeBSD, which doesn't look an attractive option at all. Can somebody please help me with either/both of these issues ? Thanks in advance. Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com 2009/6/18 Chris Whitehouse > Manish Jain wrote: > >> I forgot to mention that Windows installs and runs very smoothly on the >> system. >> >> Windows system information reports : >> >>> System ManufacturerGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. System Model >>> GA-MA78GM-US2H >>> >> > snip > > >> >> The only thing that strikes me as odd is that right-clicking on My >> Computer reports the amount of RAM as 768 MB, while the diagnostics above >> states 1024 MB. >> >> For the brief period of time the FreeBSD installer runs, it reports the >> amount of RAM as 768 MB too. >> >> > > http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2995 > > has integrated graphics = shared memory. > > You can probably change the amount of RAM allocated to the graphics card in > the BIOS. > > Chris > ___ 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: In addition to -> 7.2 panic during installation : AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed !
Gary Gatten wrote: Hmmm, seems to me the easy solution then is to run Wind0ze j/k... -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Manish Jain Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:21 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: In addition to -> 7.2 panic during installation : AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed ! I forgot to mention that Windows installs and runs very smoothly on the system. Windows system information reports : System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. System ModelGA-MA78GM-US2H System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 16 Model 2 Stepping 3 AuthenticAMD ~2304 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. F2, 02-Jan-09 SMBIOS Version 2.4 Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB [Conflicts/Sharing] ResourceDevice I/O Port 0x-0x0CF7 PCI bus I/O Port 0x-0x0CF7 Direct memory access controller I/O Port 0x03C0-0x03DF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge I/O Port 0x03C0-0x03DF ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics Memory Address 0x-0x0FFFMotherboard resources Memory Address 0x-0x0FFFSystem board Memory Address 0xFDE0-0xFDFFPCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge Memory Address 0xFDE0-0xFDFFATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics IRQ 22 Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller IRQ 22 Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller IRQ 16 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller IRQ 16 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller IRQ 16 Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio Memory Address 0xD000-0xDFFFPCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge Memory Address 0xD000-0xDFFFATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics IRQ 18 ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics IRQ 18 PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge IRQ 18 Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC IRQ 18 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller IRQ 18 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller IRQ 18 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller IRQ 19 Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio IRQ 19 Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller Memory Address 0xA-0xB PCI bus Memory Address 0xA-0xB PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge Memory Address 0xA-0xB ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics I/O Port 0x03B0-0x03BB PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge I/O Port 0x03B0-0x03BB ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics [DMA] ResourceDevice Status Channel 4 Direct memory access controller OK [Forced Hardware] Device PNP Device ID [I/O] ResourceDevice Status 0x-0x0CF7 PCI bus OK 0x-0x0CF7 Direct memory access controller OK 0x0D00-0x PCI bus OK 0xE000-0xEFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge OK 0x03B0-0x03BB PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge OK 0x03B0-0x03BB ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics OK 0x03C0-0x03DF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge OK 0x03C0-0x03DF ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics OK 0xEE00-0xEEFF ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics OK 0xD000-0xDFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge OK 0xDC00-0xDCFF Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NICOK 0xFF00-0xFF07 Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller OK 0xFE00-0xFE03 Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller OK 0xFD00-0xFD07 Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller OK 0xFC00-0xFC03 Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller OK 0xFB00-0xFB0F Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller OK 0xFA00-0xFA0F Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller OK 0x01F0-0x01F7 Primary IDE Channel OK 0x03F6-0x03F6 Primary IDE Channel OK 0x0170-0x0177 Secondary IDE Channel OK 0x0376-0x0376 Secondary IDE Channel OK 0x0A79-0x0A79 ISAPNP Read Data Port OK 0x0279-0x0279 ISAPNP Read Data Port OK 0x0274-0x0277 ISAPNP Read Data Port OK 0x4100-0x411F Motherboard resources OK 0x0228-0x022F Motherboard resources OK 0x0238-0x023F Motherboard resources OK 0x040B-0x040B Motherboard resources OK 0x04D6-0x04D6 Motherboard resources OK 0x0C00-0x0C01 Motherboard resources OK 0x0C14-0x0C14 Motherboard resources OK 0x0C50-0x0C52 Motherboard resources OK 0x0C6C-0x0C6D Motherboard resources OK 0x0C6F-0x0
In addition to -> 7.2 panic during installation : AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed !
Standard OpenHCD USB Host ControllerOK 0xE000-0xEFFF Motherboard resources OK 0xCEA00-0xC System boardOK 0xF-0xF7FFF System boardOK 0xF8000-0xFBFFF System boardOK 0xFC000-0xF System boardOK 0x2FEE-0x2FEF System boardOK 0x-0x System boardOK 0x10-0x2FED System boardOK 0x2FFF-0x3FFE System boardOK 0xFEC0-0xFEC00FFF System boardOK 0xFEE0-0xFEE00FFF System boardOK 0xFFF8-0xFFFE System boardOK The only thing that strikes me as odd is that right-clicking on My Computer reports the amount of RAM as 768 MB, while the diagnostics above states 1024 MB. For the brief period of time the FreeBSD installer runs, it reports the amount of RAM as 768 MB too. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
7.2 panic during installation : AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed !
Hi, I got a brand new system today with an AMD quad-core Phenom processor and a Gigabyte board with a 780G chipset. When I boot from the 7.2-Release-x86 DVD, I get the following welcome message (after some initial diagnostics) : ACPI APIC Table: AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed ! After this, the system prompts for panic (y/n). Accepting y leads to a bye-bye, and entering n leads to a "PHY# 2 failed" message and another panic prompt. What is this supposed to mean ? Thanks for any help. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: Need sed to do something which sounds simple
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, May 28, 2009 07:48:36 -0500 Manish Jain wrote: Hi, I need sed to do something which sounds simple, but I can't figure out the right command. All I need to do is insert a blank after a '}' at the end of a line if the next line begins immediately afterwards (i.e. with no blank line between). //abc.cpp : int myclass::fx(int * arg) { if(! (isValid())) { return -1; } return ptr->fx(arg); } //what-i-want.cpp : int myclass::fx(int * arg) { if(! (isValid())) { return -1; } return ptr->fx(arg); } The commands I have tried are : i) sed -e 's/\(}$\)\n\(^[[:space:]]*[[:alpha:]]\+\)/\1\n\n\2/' \ what-i-want.cpp ii) sed -e 's/\(}$\)\(^[[:space:]]*[[:alpha:]]\+\)/\1\n\2/' \ what-i-want.cpp but obviously neither works, which is why posting this message. Can anybody please tell me what the correct command would be like ? Seems like this would work to add a space only to lines where the next line only has a new line : sed ' /\}$/ { N /}$\n\n/ { s/\}$\n/\} $\n/} } ' file If the possibility exists that the new line might have spaces as well, you could do this: sed ' /\}$/ { N /}$\n\n/ { s/\}$\n[ ]?/\} $\n/} } ' Note: I haven't tested this, so it may require some modification. Read this page on dealing with multiple lines in sed to gain further understanding - http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html Hello Paul, After reading the sed document, the following worked for me : sed ' /}$/ { N s/}\n\([[:space:]]\+\)\n*/}\n\n\1/ }' what-i-want.cpp This keeps the indentation intact. Thanks for the help & -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
Need sed to do something which sounds simple
Hi, I need sed to do something which sounds simple, but I can't figure out the right command. All I need to do is insert a blank after a '}' at the end of a line if the next line begins immediately afterwards (i.e. with no blank line between). //abc.cpp : int myclass::fx(int * arg) { if(! (isValid())) { return -1; } return ptr->fx(arg); } //what-i-want.cpp : int myclass::fx(int * arg) { if(! (isValid())) { return -1; } return ptr->fx(arg); } The commands I have tried are : i) sed -e 's/\(}$\)\n\(^[[:space:]]*[[:alpha:]]\+\)/\1\n\n\2/' \ what-i-want.cpp ii) sed -e 's/\(}$\)\(^[[:space:]]*[[:alpha:]]\+\)/\1\n\2/' \ what-i-want.cpp but obviously neither works, which is why posting this message. Can anybody please tell me what the correct command would be like ? Thank you & -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: How to move vi to /bin
Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in single-user mode. The only reason to need an editor and not have /usr and /var available is to edit /etc/fstab. It is trivial to spot errors with /rescue/cat and fix with /rescue/sed, without having to worry about a terminal. In all other cases: fsck -p /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal start /etc/rc.d/ldconfig start And one can use any editor one would want. Don't forget to export or setenv TERM to cons25 from 'dumb'. From all the discussion I have walked through on the issue of where to place vi, it does appear FreeBSD has a skewed policy on the issue. There are plenty of reasons you might need access an editor in single-user mode - editing fstab is just one. Having to use the workarounds suggested in place of vi is not so good, and manually moving vi to /bin is not simply a matter of 'mv /usr/bin/vi /bin/'. One of the things I would dearly like to see in a future release is vi being placed under /bin. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
How to move vi to /bin
Hi, I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in single-user mode. This sounds simple (and should be if all you have is a single partition), but there are problems. For starters, terminfo can't locate its database in single-user mode. Could anyone please tell me how to go about this on a 7.x system ? I am also curious to know why FreeBSD doesn't place vi under /bin in the first place. Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ 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"
MPlayer experiment not working out well
Robert Huff wrote: Erik Gustafson writes: Have you tried the ports multimedia/mplayer or multimedia/vlc? I can't live without mplayer on my desktop and it usually "just works" on everything i try to play. I use mplayer too, but (as far as I know) the list of supported codecs hasn't changed in several years. That's mostly not a problem, but there are certain file types (.wmvs I have been told are handled correctly by Windows Media Player 10/11; this may be a DRM thing) that completely do not play. If you want a fancy GUI, search in ports/multimedia for mplayer and you will find kde-mplayer, gnome-mplayer and friends. Mplayer has a gui (gmplayer) but it's pretty minimal. Robert Huff Hello Robert / Erik / All, The mplayer installation went pretty smoothly - no problems with that. And the gui is more than acceptable - I don't need the gnome-mplayer add-on. But the application has failed to play any file/CD/DVD for me so far. The typical complaint for unencrypted vob files/iso-images is 'Too many packets in the buffer', whereas for encrypted DVD's the application produces garbage. (Please note it is willing to take dvd://1 on the commandline but not dvdnav://1, even though libdvd[nav/read/css] are all installed on my system). My DVD device in mplayer is /dev/dvd (permissions 644), which is a symlink to /dev/acd0 (permissions 444). For .dat files copies straight from CD's, the playback seems to occur at the rate of one frame per annum. On more than a couple of occasions, I remember getting some warning message to the effect 'gl missing : be prepared for a severe performance penalty'. Needless to say, my spirits are dampened after all the initial enthusiasm and effort. Maybe somebody can point out what might be wrong with my setup. Following is the output of my 'make showconfig' in /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer : ===> The following configuration options are available for mplayer-0.99.11_12: DEBUG=off "Include debug symbols in mplayer's binary files" RTCPU=on "Let mplayer dynamically check for CPU features" OCFLAGS=on "Use optimized compiler flags" SIMD=on "Allow mplayer to use vector engines (MMX...)" IPV6=off "Include inet6 network support" X11=on "Enable X11 support for mplayer's video output" X11XV=on "X11 video drivers: XV" X11DGA=on "X11 video drivers: DGA" X11GL=on "X11 video drivers: OpenGL" X11XIN=on "X11 video drivers: Xinerama" X11VM=off "X11 VidMode support" GUI=on "Enable GTK2 graphical user interface with X11" SDL=off "Enable SDL video output" VIDIX=off "Enable VIDIX video output on supported archs" SKINS=on "Force dependency on mplayer-skins" FREETYPE=on "Use freetype for OSD fonts (TrueType!)" RTC=off "Add support for kernel real time clock timing" ARTS=off "Enable KDE sound system support" ESOUND=on "Enable GNOME esound support" JACK=off "Enable JackIt audio server support" NAS=off "Enable NAS sound server support" OPENAL=off "Enable OpenAL sound support" LIBUNGIF=on "Enable gif support" AALIB=off "Enable aalib support" LIBCACA=off "Enable libcaca support" SVGALIB=off "Enable svgalib support" LIBDV=off "Enable libdv support" MAD=on "Enable mad MPEG audio engine support" DTS=on "Enable DTS audio codec support" LIBMPCDEC=off "Enable libmpcdec support" LADSPA=off "Enable LADSPA plugin support" SPEEX=off "Enable speex audio codec support" TREMOR=on "Use built-in tremor instead of libvorbis" XMMS=on "Enable XMMS plugin support" THEORA=off "Enable ogg theora video support" WIN32=on "Enable win32 codec set on the IA32 arch" AMR=off "Enable AMR audio codec support" X264=on "Enable x264 (H.264) video codec support" XANIM=on "Enable xanim DLL support" XVID=on "Enable XVID video codec support" REALPLAYER=off "Enable real player plugin" LIVEMEDIA=off "Enable LIVE555 streaming support" SMB=off "Enable Samba input support" FRIBIDI=off "Enable FriBiDi support" LIRC=off "Enable lirc support" LIBCDIO=off "Enable libcdio support" CDPARANOIA=off "Enable cdparanoia support" LIBLZO=off "Enable external liblzo library" JOYSTICK=off "Enable joystick support" ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings In mplayer's Preferences/codecs, I am using the DirectShow codecs. Could that be a problem ? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/11 Manish Jain : Hi all, After weeks of fumbling and struggling, I have made my full transition from Linux to FreeBSD, thanks in no mean measures to the assistance of this forum. I've got my FreeBSD 7.1 x86 system set up exactly as I wanted it and now I am looking to move one step further - and that is one big step. I wish to get rid of my Windows installation too, which exists purely for the purpose of multimedia entertainment - one area where I think GNU-based systems still have some way to go before they catch up with Win32 applications. However, I am willing to give it a try. I already have xmms set up, which takes care of the audio part reasonably well. The big hole that remains is a video application. What I looking for is something on these lines : 1) I hardly ever play movies directly from the CD/DVD drive (/dev/dvd -> /dev/acd0, courtesy devfs.conf). First I copy them to the hard-disk (after decrypting any DVD's if needed). So I ideally want an application that can play .dat and unencrypted .vob files directly from a hard disk ntfs partition without incessently complaining about missing plugins. (If necessary, I can reformat the ntfs partition as ffs). Actually, to be more accurate, I don't even have any .vob files. What I have is unencrypted .iso images of the DVD's, which I guess I will need to mount via mdconfig. But if the application strictly needs .vob files, I'll extract them from the iso images for its benefit. 2) Since my DVD drive is capable of reading DVD's from all regions, it would be great if the application could also, if needed, directly play encrypted DVD's from the drive itself. I have libdvdnav, libdvdread, libdvdcss and libdvdplay installed. 3) The final point to be considered is the quality of the video/audio playback compared to, say, PowerDVD on Windows - which I have used (version 2.55) with absolute delight and satisfaction since I purchased my first DVD. Any tips/input would be greatly appreciated. To keep the discussion simple, HD/Blu-Ray are not in my plans for the current century. -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. Have you tried vlc for video? I'm sure it's not something you've completely overlooked, but it's probably worth another. You seem settled on xmms, have you also tried out musicpd for music? You can use Sonata as a frontend, very nice to use, or even over HTTP. It also carries on fine should X crap out :) Chris Hello Chris, Thanks for the input. I certainly am not settled on xmms. It's the only one I was aware of so far. Further to that, I WAS actually for something that could do without X, because I work a lot on the console. I'll start the musicpd build right away. -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application
Robert Huff wrote: Erik Gustafson writes: Have you tried the ports multimedia/mplayer or multimedia/vlc? I can't live without mplayer on my desktop and it usually "just works" on everything i try to play. I use mplayer too, but (as far as I know) the list of supported codecs hasn't changed in several years. That's mostly not a problem, but there are certain file types (.wmvs I have been told are handled correctly by Windows Media Player 10/11; this may be a DRM thing) that completely do not play. If you want a fancy GUI, search in ports/multimedia for mplayer and you will find kde-mplayer, gnome-mplayer and friends. Mplayer has a gui (gmplayer) but it's pretty minimal. Robert Huff Hello Robert / Erik, Thanks a lot. MPlayer certainly seems to come with strong credentials and recommendation. I am starting the build straight away. Since I am a die-hard gnomer, I'll go for gnome-mplayer as the frontend. -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application
Hi all, After weeks of fumbling and struggling, I have made my full transition from Linux to FreeBSD, thanks in no mean measures to the assistance of this forum. I've got my FreeBSD 7.1 x86 system set up exactly as I wanted it and now I am looking to move one step further - and that is one big step. I wish to get rid of my Windows installation too, which exists purely for the purpose of multimedia entertainment - one area where I think GNU-based systems still have some way to go before they catch up with Win32 applications. However, I am willing to give it a try. I already have xmms set up, which takes care of the audio part reasonably well. The big hole that remains is a video application. What I looking for is something on these lines : 1) I hardly ever play movies directly from the CD/DVD drive (/dev/dvd -> /dev/acd0, courtesy devfs.conf). First I copy them to the hard-disk (after decrypting any DVD's if needed). So I ideally want an application that can play .dat and unencrypted .vob files directly from a hard disk ntfs partition without incessently complaining about missing plugins. (If necessary, I can reformat the ntfs partition as ffs). Actually, to be more accurate, I don't even have any .vob files. What I have is unencrypted .iso images of the DVD's, which I guess I will need to mount via mdconfig. But if the application strictly needs .vob files, I'll extract them from the iso images for its benefit. 2) Since my DVD drive is capable of reading DVD's from all regions, it would be great if the application could also, if needed, directly play encrypted DVD's from the drive itself. I have libdvdnav, libdvdread, libdvdcss and libdvdplay installed. 3) The final point to be considered is the quality of the video/audio playback compared to, say, PowerDVD on Windows - which I have used (version 2.55) with absolute delight and satisfaction since I purchased my first DVD. Any tips/input would be greatly appreciated. To keep the discussion simple, HD/Blu-Ray are not in my plans for the current century. -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: hplip port update to version 2.8.5
Hi Jerry, I think I would give some credence to the stated requirements on the site. The reason I raised the point was I know of people using D15XX (but where XX < 80) with hplip versions well below 2.8.5, and HP now claims 2.8.5 to be the minimum for those printers too, as well as for a whole lot of printers which are known to work with hplip versions less than 2.8.5. If I am not mistaken, the hplip site blindly states 2.8.5 as the minimum requirement for all printers of this class. Maybe this is just a convenient way of doing things for HP rather than figuring out each printer's actual minimum requirement. In any case, did you contact the port maintainer about updating the port. If if doesn't get done before the port freeze, you will probably be screwed. Sure I did. Although the response was not was particularly thrilling : I am not sure when I'm going to get around to doing an update. If you want to take a stab at an update I'll be happy to review any patches, but you will probably need the newer version to get things working. -- Anish Mistry amis...@am-productions.biz My previous mail to freebsd-questions was marked as To by mistake. It was only intended to be a CC. Sorry. If you reply, please CC me separately. It makes it so much easier for me to reply, if needed. BTW, I have never used hplip/CUPS before. I do hope it's not terribly complex to setup and go. -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
hplip port update to version 2.8.5
Hi, I am about to buy a new printer and my retailer strongly recommends HP's D1560 printer (USB). I am running ghostscript8-8.62_5 under FreeBSD 7.1 and I can't see this model listed anywhere in apsfilter. So I checked up the hplip site. The site says that the D1560 is indeed supported, but it also says that the minimum version of hplip required for this is 2.8.5, while the latest port available is 2.8.2. Please check out http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_d1500_series.html The site actually lists hplip version 2.8.5 as the minimum requirement for the entire D15XX series, and a whole lot of other deskjet printers. Should I wait for a port update or do you think version 2.8.2 is capable of handling the printer ? -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: Question about support for HP D1560 printer under FreeBSD
Jerry wrote: According to the [1]http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html site, your printer is supported. Install the '/print/hplip' port. Be sure to read the docu mentation on configuring the program. I have hplip and cups installed on my system to support two HP wireless printer s, and it works fine. Hi Jerry, Thanks for your message. I checked up the list, which says that the D1560 is indeed supported, but it also says that the minimum version of hplip required for this is 2.8.5, while the latest port available is 2.8.2. Please check out [2]http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_d15 00_series.html for this. -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain [3]invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. References Visible links 1. http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html 2. cid:part1.08010003.09060804@gmail.com 3. mailto:invalid.poin...@gmail.com Hidden links: 4. http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_d1500_series.html http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en" xml:lang="en" dir="ltr"> HP Linux Imaging and Printing http://hplipopensource.com/modules/book/book.css?4"; /> http://hplipopensource.com/modules/cck/theme/content.css?4"; /> http://hplipopensource.com/modules/cck/modules/fieldgroup/fieldgroup.css?4"; /> http://hplipopensource.com/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor.css?4"; /> http://hplipopensource.com/modules/nice_menus/nice_menus.css?4"; /> http://hplipopensource.com/modules/nice_menus/nice_menus_default.css?4"; /> http://hplipopensource.com/modules/node/node.css?4"; /> http://hplipopensource.com/modules/system/defaults.css?4"; /> http://hplipopensource.com/modules/system/system.css?4"; /> http://hplipopensource.com/modules/system/system-menus.css?4"; /> http://hplipopensource.com/modules/user/user.css?4"; /> http://hplipopensource.com/themes/bluemarine/stylesheets/hplipstyle.css?4"; /> #distros_table { position: relative; left: 50px; } #models_table { position: relative; left: 50px; } #models_table table { text-align: center; } #distros_table table { text-align: center; } #download_button { display: relative; left: 50px; } #hplip_logo2 { position: relative; right: -50px; top: -85px; } /*div.body2 { position: absolute; left: 200px; top: -500px; } */ pre { background-color: #eee; padding: 0.75em 1.5em; border: 1px solid #ddd; width: 50%; overflow: auto; } hr { width: 100%; margin-left: -10px; } p { font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-serif; } li { font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-serif; } td { font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-serif; } h1 { text-decoration: none; } h1.title { font-size: 140%; } pre.literal-block { width: 570px; } div.section { width: 570px; } h2 { font-size: 150%; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top:0px; font-weight: normal; } h3 { font-size: 130%; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top:0px; font-weight: normal; } /* :Authors: Ian Bicking, Michael Foord :Contact: fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk :Date: 2005/08/26 :Version: 0.2.0 :Copyright: This stylesheet has been placed in the public domain. rest.css - used for rest2web documents Content rendered by docutils as part of a website <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/">http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/</a> Stylesheet for Docutils. Based on ``blue_box.css`` by Ian Bicking and ``default.css`` revision 3442 */ /* @import url(default.css); */ em, i { /* Typically serif fonts have much nicer italics */ /* font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; */ } a.target { color: blue; text-decoration: none; } a.toc-backref { text-decoration: none; color: black; } a.toc-backref:hover { background: none ! important } div.attention, div.caution, div.danger, div.error, div.hint, div.important, div.note, div.tip, div.warning { background-color: #ff; padding: 3px; border: thin solid #00; width: 60%; text-align: center; position: relative; left: 75px; } div.admo
Question about support for HP D1560 printer under FreeBSD
Hi, I am about to buy a new printer (my first one actually) and my retailer strongly recommends HP's D1560 printer (USB). I am running ghostscript8-8.62_5 under FreeBSD 7.1 and I can't see this model listed anywhere in apsfilter. So I just want to confirm whether I could get this printer to run on my system ? -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: Critical : My X went down
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 4/5/09, manish jain wrote: Hi all, In attempting to unlock some Python related mysteries (which neither python-list nor python-help would respond to despite repeated queries), I found myself recursively portupgrading myself right up the xorg distribution. That wasn't half as bad as the fact that - after all that effort - X does not even start now. Use vesa driver instead, and direct intel driver questions to Xorg lists. i810, driver that you used with old Xorg is abandoned and replaced with intel. Hello Paul, Thanks for the information. But, as for the plan of action, I think I'll go the other way round. I'll reinstall FreeBSD 7.1 from scratch and just make sure nobody ever touches my xorg setup again. I could upgrade my system, yes, but my Celeron Coppermine 800 MHz + Intel 810-based motherboard system was running just as fast as the fancy 2.0 GHz PC's at IBM where I was working last year. BTW, I seriously wish I were a billionaire so that I could help FreeBSD get rid of this X client-server nuisance forever. I have never seen anything so ill-conceived, pathetically fragmented (modular is the polite way of referring to it), inefficient and featureless. The Mission looks Impossible-3 but, for starters, I just got a job offer yesterday from a multinational where the pay is roughly 50% higher. So maybe, someday, ... :-) -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
Critical : My X went down
ection "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol""Auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "st105" HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5 VertRefresh 50-70 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Standard VGA" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" Driver "vga" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "intel810" Driver "i810" VideoRam4096 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen_1" Device "intel810" Monitor "st105" DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Simple Layout" Screen "Screen_1" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Can anyone please help me out and get my X server up again ? -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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"
Recovered my gnome but alacarte doesn't run
Hi all, I crashed my gnome with a brilliant idea I had a few days back. After about 100 man-hours and 500 MB of downloads, I have recovered my gnome except for one glitch : alacarte doesn't run. I suppose I could sit down some more and trace the problem, but 1) I am exhausted and 2) I am sure any gtk/python user could readily point out what is missing in my setup. Below is the output of alacarte : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/alacarte", line 22, in from Alacarte.MainWindow import MainWindow File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 19, in import gtk, gtk.glade, gmenu, gobject, gio File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 38, in import gobject as _gobject File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject/__init__.py", line 33, in from glib import spawn_async, idle_add, timeout_add, timeout_add_seconds, \ File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/glib/__init__.py", line 30, in from glib._glib import * ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/glib/_glib.so: Undefined symbol "PyUnicodeUCS2_DecodeUTF8" [1]+ Exit 1 alacarte Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ 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: guile-1.8.6 build core dumps (autoconf issue ?)
Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 02 April 2009 03:01:53 manish jain wrote: Hi Mel, Sorry, I was away for work. Here is what I think you want : /usr/ports/lang/guile # make -C /usr/ports/lang/guile -V CONFIGURE_ENV -V CONFIGURE_ARGS CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" SHELL=/bin/sh CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh MAKE=gmake AUTOCONF=/usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.62 AUTOHEADER=/usr/local/bin/autoheader-2.62 AUTOIFNAMES=/usr/local/bin/ifnames-2.62 AUTOM4TE=/usr/local/bin/autom4te-2.62 AUTORECONF=/usr/local/bin/autoreconf-2.62 AUTOSCAN=/usr/local/bin/autoscan-2.62 AUTOUPDATE=/usr/local/bin/autoupdate-2.62 AUTOCONF_VERSION=262 lt_cv_sys_max_cmd_len=262144 --prefix=/usr/local ${_LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS} Hmmm...last straw: find /usr/local -name '*.la' -exec grep -- '-llthread' {} + To explain: something guile needs is built with linux-threads yet this is not correctly handled and the resulting binaries are flawed, most likely because another library that guile needs uses FreeBSD native threads. On FreeBSD threaded linking is done with -pthread linker flag which pulls in the correct threading library (on 7.0 and above libthr, on 6.x and earlier libpthread). Hi Mel, There is no output. /root # find /usr/local -name '*.la' -exec grep -- '-llthread' {} + /root # -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 ___ 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"