Re: .Xdefaults file
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:10:26 + Jamie Griffin j...@koderize.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:45:52PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: I think case matters here, i.e. XTerm*, not Xterm or xterm. Exactly the problem. Thank you! Curious, on my system (7.2) my ~/.Xdefaults uses lowercase 'xterm*...' values. You can use XTerm or xterm because both of them are use to identify xterm. You can see that when invoking `xprop` on a default xterm windows. BTW, you can specify the windows class xterm -class FooBar then you use it in the ~/.Xdefaults FooBar*background: black Foobar*fonts: ... Regards, -- Anh Ky Huynh ___ 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
freebsd for children
Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, perhaps drawing with commands, or making animations, or maybe music? Something that would make kids or that age curious, some programming environment that they can easily understand and enjoy. A programming game of sorts? many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ 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 for children
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:33:14 + Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, perhaps drawing with commands, or making animations, or maybe music? Something that would make kids or that age curious, some programming environment that they can easily understand and enjoy. A programming game of sorts? I know the `logo` language (aport lang/ucblogo, lang/klogoturtle, etc) which is used in our educational environment (Vietnamese), but for the older pupils (= 10 years old). Hope this helps, Regards, -- Anh Ky Huynh ___ 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 for children
Maybe you find something appropriate on http://icewalkers.com - there are sections for education. I guess many of these are ported to FreeBSD, or just use the Linux program. Something like this i.e. http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/531160/Little-Wizard.html Cheers herb langhans On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:33:14AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, perhaps drawing with commands, or making animations, or maybe music? Something that would make kids or that age curious, some programming environment that they can easily understand and enjoy. A programming game of sorts? many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ 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 -- sprachtraining langhans herbert langhans, warschau http://www.langhans.com.pl herbert dot raimund at gmx dot net +0048 603 341 441 ___ 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 for children
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, perhaps drawing with commands, or making animations, or maybe music? Something that would make kids or that age curious, some programming environment that they can easily understand and enjoy. A programming game of sorts? I don't know if all of these are available on FreeBSD, but you may find this interesting: http://www.marshallbrain.com/kids-programming.htm Is this aimed at getting your 7-year-old to maintain your FreeBSD systems for you? ;) b. ___ 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: Centralized Wi-Fi Management with FreeBSD
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Zamri Besar zam4e...@gmail.com wrote: Hello guys, I need advices and information about above matter. I'm googling about centralized wi-fi management concept like Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP) with FreeBSD/*BSD, but from my finding, I can't find any FreeBSD/*BSD or opensource projects similar with it. Is there by any chance that FreeBSD/*BSD or any opensource group is working with similar above concept which I can refer to and give tests? http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ohara-capwap-lwapp-04 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LWAPP Have a nice weekend! -zamri- And before I forgot, I've read about open source CAPWAP. http://sourceforge.net/projects/capwap/ -zamri- ___ 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: Wireless USB adapter
On 12/24/09, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: FreeBSD-7.2 I have a Linksys Wireless-N USB Network Adapter, model: WUSB600N that I am trying to get installed. When I insert the USB adapter this message appears in /var/messages: Dec 24 14:30:22 scorpio kernel: ugen0: Cisco-Linksys LLC Dual-Band Wireless-N USB Network Adapter, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.01, addr 2 on uhub1 Dec 24 14:30:22 scorpio root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x1737 product 0x0071 bus uhub1 I used 'ndisgen' to create the driver and then loaded it via 'kldload'. After kldload is there something displayed on console? That is as far as I can get. I cannot bring the interface up. I have read the 'wireless' setup guide on FreeBSD; however, I am not getting very far with it. If someone else here has used that device, I would appreciate seeing their configuration. -- Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | A man with convictions is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point. Leon Festinger ___ 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 -- Paul B Mahol ___ 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
Centralized Wi-Fi Management with FreeBSD
Hello guys, I need advices and information about above matter. I'm googling about centralized wi-fi management concept like Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP) with FreeBSD/*BSD, but from my finding, I can't find any FreeBSD/*BSD or opensource projects similar with it. Is there by any chance that FreeBSD/*BSD or any opensource group is working with similar above concept which I can refer to and give tests? http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ohara-capwap-lwapp-04 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LWAPP Have a nice weekend! -zamri- ___ 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: Wireless USB adapter
On 12/25/09, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/24/09, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: FreeBSD-7.2 Argh, sorry but 7.2 doesnt have NDIS usb support. You need FreeBSD 8.0 ___ 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 for children
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:18:44AM -0500, b. f. wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, perhaps drawing with commands, or making animations, or maybe music? Something that would make kids or that age curious, some programming environment that they can easily understand and enjoy. A programming game of sorts? I don't know if all of these are available on FreeBSD, but you may find this interesting: http://www.marshallbrain.com/kids-programming.htm thanks, that's interesting Is this aimed at getting your 7-year-old to maintain your FreeBSD systems for you? ;) eventually.. in the short term it's about joy of programming by the way, many thanks for svn, I'll install it on my other machines. YOu were right about the revision, I got the i386 rebuilt now. see you anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ 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: Wireless USB adapter
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:29:20 +0100 Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com replied: Argh, sorry but 7.2 doesnt have NDIS usb support. You need FreeBSD 8.0 I have been reading up on this. So I assume that it is not possible to get this adapter working under FreeBSD-7.2 then. Is there a native driver for this adapter under 8.0 or will I need to build the driver from the Windows driver? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | You are as I am with You. ___ 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 for children
Anton Shterenlikht schrieb: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, perhaps drawing with commands, or making animations, or maybe music? I never tested it myself but I heard/read about it: http://www.squeak.org/ It's in the ports: lang/squeak (i386 only) Uwe ___ 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 for children
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 04:56:21PM +0100, Uwe Laverenz wrote: Anton Shterenlikht schrieb: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, perhaps drawing with commands, or making animations, or maybe music? I never tested it myself but I heard/read about it: http://www.squeak.org/ It's in the ports: lang/squeak (i386 only) I use sparc. thank you anyway -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ 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: Wireless USB adapter
On 12/25/09, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:29:20 +0100 Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com replied: Argh, sorry but 7.2 doesnt have NDIS usb support. You need FreeBSD 8.0 I have been reading up on this. So I assume that it is not possible to get this adapter working under FreeBSD-7.2 then. Is there a native driver for this adapter under 8.0 or will I need to build the driver from the Windows driver? On 8.0 you can use NDISulator or run(4) driver, for the last solution search forums.freebsd.org -- Paul B Mahol ___ 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: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file
On Dec 25, 2009, at 12:43 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, Am I the only one to have this problem? No. Telling you more than I know: FreeBSD.org is moving (or has moved) from CVS to SVN. Is my guess that what we are seeing is an artifact of that move where data is hacked into cvs compatible format and all cvsup can do is pull down the entire file. I would be happy to use svn as I do for my own projects. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ 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
microphone in FreeBSD 8.0
Hi! My system: FreeBSD 8.0 GNERIC i386, KDE 4.3.4 mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 57:57 Mixer pcm is currently set to 75:75 Mixer speaker is currently set to 75:75 Mixer line is currently set to 75:75 Mixer mic is currently set to 82:82 Mixer cd is currently set to 75:75 Mixer rec is currently set to 75:75 Mixer igainis currently set to 81:81 Mixer ogainis currently set to 78:78 Mixer line1is currently set to 75:75 Mixer line2is currently set to 56:56 Mixer line3is currently set to 46:46 Mixer dig1 is currently set to 69:69 Mixer dig2 is currently set to 54:54 Mixer dig3 is currently set to 54:54 Mixer phin is currently set to 56:56 Mixer phoutis currently set to 56:56 Mixer videois currently set to 75:75 Recording source: mic Microphone on KDE 4.3.4 doesn't work. I use Skype, sound is okay but the other site don't hear me. I did try Audacity and microphone doesn't work too. If I talk in the microphe I hear myself in the speakers. If I mute microphone in KMixer, there are no differencies. I still hear myself in the speakers. Thanks in advance. Mitja http://starikarp.redbubble.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
example c program that does beep
How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. Could somebody send me an example. I'd be soo grateful. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ 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: example c program that does beep
printf(\007); /* assumes that your using a console/terminal that will beep on ctl-g */ On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. Could somebody send me an example. I'd be soo grateful. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ 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 ___ 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: example c program that does beep
On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 18:58 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
How can I get a beep from c?
I looked at curses and syscons.c, but
still not clear.
Could somebody send me an example.
I'd be soo grateful.
#include stdio.h
int
main(int argc, char **argv) {
printf(%c, 7);
return(0);
}
Joe
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Re: example c program that does beep
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:58:26 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. If you want to use NCURSES / CURSES, it's a bit complicated. Otherwise, just output %c (the character) 0x07, BEL, which generates an audible bell, or beep. -- 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
Re: example c program that does beep
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:58:26 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk
wrote:
How can I get a beep from c?
I looked at curses and syscons.c, but
still not clear.
If you want to use NCURSES / CURSES, it's a bit complicated.
Otherwise, just output %c (the character) 0x07, BEL, which
generates an audible bell, or beep.
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/* beepflash.c
* ---
* cc -Wall -lcurses -o beepflash beepflash.c
*
*/
#include stdio.h
#include ncurses.h
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
initscr();
cbreak();
noecho();
nonl();
intrflush(stdscr, FALSE);
keypad(stdscr, TRUE);
start_color();
printf(beep: %d\n, beep());
fflush(stdout);
printf(flash: %d\n, flash());
fflush(stdout);
return 0;
}
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Magdeburg, Germany
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Re: build 7.x kernel without zfs
2009/12/24 Rolf G Nielsen laz...@lazlarlyricon.com Oles Hnatkevych wrote: Hi! Since my installation has 496Mb on root partition, having to kernels (current and old) there becomes pain, only 4Mb free left. How can I build kernel without zfs module, since it consumes 12Mb with symbols? Hi Oles, I'm not sure how to specify which modules not to build, but to build only the modules you need, use MODULES_OVERRIDE in your kernel config file. E.g. the following line will build and install only atapicam and ext2fs. makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE=atapicam ext2fs To find out what modules you use, just type kldstat in the console, and add the listed modules to the MODULES_OVERRIDE. You can also specify that you don't want debug symbols built by removing or commenting out the makeoptions DEBUG=-g line. Rolf Nielsen ___ 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 have a look at the man page for src.conf there are loads of options there to stop bits building. eg games, zfs, bluetooth etc ___ 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
clicky driver
People, Some of you know that I've been working on a speech-computer: a small, easily portable computer than virtually anyone can afford. (To be fair, there is a touchscreen device that uses Windows. If you have at least $9,000 to spend.] I have spend the past weeks checking out the OLPC XO computer. It comes with espeak which lots of speech-impaired find a lousy way of giving them a voice. The size of the keyboard is an issue; another issue is that the computer had RH on ROM. One developer told me that the keys are hard to press and have no feedback. Nothing tactile, and because neither Linux nor BSD has an audio click, not even that. Sun does have a command line % click -[yn] which is a start. If someone in the kernel-side would work with me and add the Audio click, I will look at some of the netbooks to see how usable they are. There are millions of people world-wide with impaired speech who can type. The variation is too wide for anyone or any device to cover everything, but that, so far, is the rational to do nothing. As a first cut, is there somebody on the kernel side I should check with to see about adding a click driver? thanks in advance. -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ 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 for children
Message du 25/12/09 17:06 De : Anton Shterenlikht A : Uwe Laverenz Copie à : freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Objet : Re: freebsd for children On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 04:56:21PM +0100, Uwe Laverenz wrote: Anton Shterenlikht schrieb: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, perhaps drawing with commands, or making animations, or maybe music? I never tested it myself but I heard/read about it: http://www.squeak.org/ It's in the ports: lang/squeak (i386 only) I had my first programming experience at 7 with LOGO on MO6. This is a very primitive drawing language, and as I remember I have had some fun with it! There is some ports (search for LOGO in the port name) of the LOGO language on FreeBSD, but I never try any of them! I hope one will do for you. Cheers, Michael Laposte.net vous souhaite de Joyeuses Fêtes de fin d'année. Je crée ma boîte mail www.laposte.net ___ 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: clicky driver
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:47:49 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: If someone in the kernel-side would work with me and add the Audio click, I will look at some of the netbooks to see how usable they are. One problem might occur when the desired device doesn't have a PC speaker functionality and only offers sound output through the sound card (inside the chipset, which is a chip, and mostly is the CPU itself). Programming a PC speaker beep is, as far as I can imagine, more simple to implement than a sound generation by the DSP (which requires a driver to do so). There are millions of people world-wide with impaired speech who can type. There are also millions of blind people world-wide, but web developers don't pay any attention on them. :-) As a first cut, is there somebody on the kernel side I should check with to see about adding a click driver? You could initially have a look at the atkbd (or ukbd?) source files. Maybe just inserting some output of the ASCII character 0x07 (BEL) after each recognized keypress would be sufficient, but... no, it won't be that easy. :-) -- 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
strange find process
Hi all,
At 2:00 am today, I turned my laptop on and suddenly found a strange process:
$ ps xauw | grep find
... find -sx ./bin -type f
( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm -o+x )
( -perm -u+s -or -perm -g+s ) -exec ls -liTd {} +
What is the purpose of this process? If that is a system check then where is
the log file?
Thank you for your replies,
Regards,
--
Anh Ky Huynh
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location of discussion of lives
Good morning, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Can you help me to negotiate the FreeBSD website? I am trying to find a general discussion about livefs. I have not been successful at entering the correct sequence of search terms to find a general discussion about this topic. I would like to know what this feature does, and the situation in which a user would wish to install it. My question would refer to either release 7 or release 8. Thanks for any and all enlightenment. Yours truly, Lee S. ___ 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: clicky driver
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:01:31PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:47:49 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: If someone in the kernel-side would work with me and add the Audio click, I will look at some of the netbooks to see how usable they are. One problem might occur when the desired device doesn't have a PC speaker functionality and only offers sound output through the sound card (inside the chipset, which is a chip, and mostly is the CPU itself). Programming a PC speaker beep is, as far as I can imagine, more simple to implement than a sound generation by the DSP (which requires a driver to do so). at first I'm lookings for a cots (commericial, off-the-shelf) solution. The XO has stereo speakers and so do the notebooks. I am thinking of the 'PC speaker'; something that would sound for around a 25th/second, very low and with at least some loudness control. The xset utility let me turn off repeating keys so that I do type type that way. xset also has a key-click setting for click and loudness. Don't know about pitch. That would need to be integrated with what I'm thinking of. There are millions of people world-wide with impaired speech who can type. There are also millions of blind people world-wide, but web developers don't pay any attention on them. :-) There are a few who actually *do* have text-only pages. (That's another issue: getting espeak or festival to be able to read aloud: ``Hello, how's it going?'' ...) In the third-word are at least millions of disabled folks-- mostly mouldering. Some thinking: What the hey? Why not blow myself up and then wake up in paradise? I'll get 70 angels all to myself. Oh-boy. Education is the only solution, even tho it will take generations. That's why I think the XO is a win++ As a first cut, is there somebody on the kernel side I should check with to see about adding a click driver? You could initially have a look at the atkbd (or ukbd?) source files. Maybe just inserting some output of the ASCII character 0x07 (BEL) after each recognized keypress would be sufficient, but... no, it won't be that easy. :-) Circa fall, 1999 I did this; it was almost concurrent with a power-out-power-on-power-out-power-on all within 7 of 8 seconds. That blew mt almost new 9.1G SCSI drive. I said 'bleep it' and quit. ---this was when my shoulder started dislocate, c, so...-- Anyway, thanks for the clue, Polyt. Anybody else? I have written other k-side drivers, but that was in the mid-80s. They are a bear to test... . -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ 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: clicky driver
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: at first I'm lookings for a cots (commericial, off-the-shelf) solution. The XO has stereo speakers and so do the notebooks. I am thinking of the 'PC speaker'; something that would sound for around a 25th/second, very low and with at least some loudness control. The xset utility let me turn off repeating keys so that I do type type that way. xset also has a key-click setting for click and loudness. Don't know about pitch. That would need to be integrated with what I'm thinking of. There's xset b vol pitch duration; vol cannot be changed for the PC speaker, pitch is in Hz and duration in ms. If vol is 100, it's functionality is implemented by shortening the duration. A command like xset b 100 100 25 should give what you want. As far as I understood, the PC speaker has no volume control per se. There are a few who actually *do* have text-only pages. And fewer do have alt= and longdesc= for included images. Being suitable for blind users doesn't mean to completely look boring to viewing users. Careful HTML coding is the key. But sadly, it's not considered modern... :-( In the third-word are at least millions of disabled folks-- mostly mouldering. Some thinking: What the hey? Why not blow myself up and then wake up in paradise? I'll get 70 angels all to myself. Oh-boy. Hmmm... that sounds appealing. :-) Education is the only solution, even tho it will take generations. That's why I think the XO is a win++ It can help, if properly used. Wrong use can lead into the opposite. I can only tell you from Germany where school and education are epically failing since 1990, even though they employ modern means of education... a joke from an educational (scientifical) point of view. -- 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
Re: example c program that does beep
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:34:39PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:58:26 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. If you want to use NCURSES / CURSES, it's a bit complicated. tput bel (that's part of ncurses - though your configuration iirc doesn't have a fully-functional tput). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpxYrymOFAfs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: freebsd for children
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 03:33, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, perhaps drawing with commands, or making animations, or maybe music? Something that would make kids or that age curious, some programming environment that they can easily understand and enjoy. A programming game of sorts? many thanks This is much like what you're looking for, but I don't know if it's been ported to FreeBSD: http://scratch.mit.edu/ ___ 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: clicky driver
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:53:43PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: at first I'm lookings for a cots (commericial, off-the-shelf) solution. The XO has stereo speakers and so do the notebooks. I am thinking of the 'PC speaker'; something that would sound for around a 25th/second, very low and with at least some loudness control. The xset utility let me turn off repeating keys so that I do type type that way. xset also has a key-click setting for click and loudness. Don't know about pitch. That would need to be integrated with what I'm thinking of. There's xset b vol pitch duration; vol cannot be changed for the PC speaker, pitch is in Hz and duration in ms. If vol is 100, it's functionality is implemented by shortening the duration. A command like xset b 100 100 25 should give what you want. As far as I understood, the PC speaker has no volume control per se. you cmd example failed on my Konsole; the usage output was output. The beep is extremely low on the old Dell, and I'm still running without X11 on my server. I'll poke around for other, things that don't requie X. I'm looking at the drivers too. There are a few who actually *do* have text-only pages. And fewer do have alt= and longdesc= for included images. Being suitable for blind users doesn't mean to completely look boring to viewing users. Careful HTML coding is the key. But sadly, it's not considered modern... :-( Right on the money there! I suppose it's easier to slap up some pix. maybe I do things with fewer photos because I hand-code html. In any case, I'm very conscious of my markup; I always check it via lynx . In the third-word are at least millions of disabled folks-- mostly mouldering. Some thinking: What the hey? Why not blow myself up and then wake up in paradise? I'll get 70 angels all to myself. Oh-boy. Hmmm... that sounds appealing. :-) lOL, really. Education is the only solution, even tho it will take generations. That's why I think the XO is a win++ It can help, if properly used. Wrong use can lead into the opposite. I can only tell you from Germany where school and education are epically failing since 1990, even though they employ modern means of education... a joke from an educational (scientifical) point of view. Are there regional differences, still? East/west? whatever? And how does GErmany stack up compared to the rest of the EU? And the States. Public school or university? Here it seems that lots of our grade schools are losing; grades 6-9 same. 9-12, same. Hey, the West is already losing to South and East Asia. I'm not entirely sorry. I say: let them muck around with global problems; see how they faire.Blah * 3. :) gary PS: any idea how I can get/fetch the kdbio modules from of 2.2 to of 3.1? -- 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 -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ 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: location of discussion of lives
leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good morning, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Can you help me to negotiate the FreeBSD website? I am trying to find a general discussion about livefs. I have not been successful at entering the correct sequence of search terms to find a general discussion about this topic. I would like to know what this feature does, and the situation in which a user would wish to install it. My question would refer to either release 7 or release 8. Thanks for any and all enlightenment. Yours truly, Lee S. The LiveFS is a bootable CD with a very minimal set of utilities present. It is somewhat comparable to the minimal install, except booting from a CD. You would not necessarily install it. It is primarily a system admin tool to aid in recovery of a damaged system, or can also be used to initially pre- configure a system in special ways which are not yet included in the standard sysinstall. Such things may be GPT partitioning, setting up drives for ZFS, and the like. It is more of a fixit/rescue tool, and for other advanced sysadmin functions. -Mike ___ 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: strange find process
Anh Ky Huynh wrote:
Hi all,
At 2:00 am today, I turned my laptop on and suddenly found a strange
process:
$ ps xauw | grep find
... find -sx ./bin -type f
( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm -o+x )
( -perm -u+s -or -perm -g+s ) -exec ls -liTd {} +
What is the purpose of this process? If that is a system check then where
is the log file?
There are some scripts called periodic which execute and perform various
different things depending upon whether it is a daily, weekly, or monthly.
The output will get emailed to root, or redirected to an alias of root.
The above looks strangely enough like a snippet of this activity. The daily
usually runs every morning here at 3AM, the weekly rebuilds the locate and
whatis database something like 4:15AM Saturday morning, and the monthly is
an end of the month count of login activity.
More info can be found in man periodic. There is a periodic.conf in
/etc/defaults, and the scripts themselves live in /etc/periodic and you can
take a look. My bet is you stumbled upon one of the periodic script runs.
-Mike
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graphics card/monitor question
Hi all, My motherboard has onboard nvidia GeForce 8300 graphics rated up to 1920x1080 (1080p). It has VGA, DVI and HDMI outputs. Are there any issues using a 1920x1080 monitor with HDMI like LG electronics W2361V? Eg would this mode need special drivers? Or should it all just work? http://uk.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=amYCbidk7vhOQLWp http://www.lge.com/uk/it-products/monitors/LG-lcd-monitor-W2361V.jsp I'm using FreeBSD 8 i386 with x11/nvidia-driver Thanks very much for any comments and I hope you all had an enjoyable christmas. 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: clicky driver
Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: at first I'm lookings for a cots (commericial, off-the-shelf) solution. The XO has stereo speakers and so do the notebooks. I am thinking of the 'PC speaker'; something that would sound for around a 25th/second, very low and with at least some loudness control. Hi Gary, someone posted recently about the play-string language for /dev/speaker, see speaker(4). Could you do something with that? btw thanks to whoever posted the play-string code for frere jaques - cracked me up :) 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: Wireless USB adapter
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 05:24:32PM +0100, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 12/25/09, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:29:20 +0100 Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com replied: Argh, sorry but 7.2 doesnt have NDIS usb support. You need FreeBSD 8.0 I have been reading up on this. So I assume that it is not possible to get this adapter working under FreeBSD-7.2 then. Is there a native driver for this adapter under 8.0 or will I need to build the driver from the Windows driver? On 8.0 you can use NDISulator or run(4) driver, for the last solution search forums.freebsd.org There exists a run(4) in OpenBSD that suppports the RT2870 in the WUSB600N. But not in FreeBSD yet, not in 8-STABLE http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/stable/8/sys/dev/usb/wlan/ and not even in HEAD; http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/dev/usb/wlan/ Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpsSoBXh8mDe.pgp Description: PGP signature
setlocale command is missing
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: varování: 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 Fix it to set locale default. Or set 'don' task again' and press Skip [ ] 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 ___ 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: clicky driver
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:47:49PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Nothing tactile, and because neither Linux nor BSD has an audio click, not even that. Sun does have a command line It should. The X window system provides a way to get keyclicks with xset(1). The command 'xset c 100' whould generate the loudest click possible. Whether you hear something depends e.g. on how the X server is started, and wether the hardware supports it. On my PC I hear the 'bell' from the PC speaker, but no clicks. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpD2cPfmd60u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Package Dependency Issue
Hi, New to FreeBSD, it seems that in each of a few vm's I stoke up when I try to install openvpn-auth-ldap via `pkg_add -r` I expect as per the man page for it to pull in all the deps it needs but it seems on any given try, it misses something different? I have tried searching the web to figure out how to look for a package that provides a file I need when something is missing but I am lost. On one try, I got: Shared object libgssapi.so.9 not found, required by libldap-2.4.so.6 and I couldn't find what provided this? I see cyrus-sasl2 provides a v2? On another install it complained over a myriad of krb5 and tasn1 libs etc... Any advice appreciated! Thanks, jlc ___ 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: setlocale command is missing
Daniel Dvořák wrote: 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: varování: 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 Fix it to set locale default. Or set 'don' task again' and press Skip [ ] 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 ___ 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 ls -ld /usr/share/locale/*8859-2 for a list of ISO8859-2 locales. Use the complete name, e.g. cs_CZ.ISO8859-2. To set the above locale in sh and work-alikes use LC_ALL=cs_CZ.ISO8859-2; export LC_ALL (the syntax you tried, but your locale spec was wrong, and that's why it protested). To set the above locale in csh and work-alikes use setenv LC_ALL cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 ___ 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
Fwd: location of discussion of livefs
Greetings FreeBSD enthusiast. Sorry that I misspelled the issue of interest in the subject line. ---BeginMessage--- Good morning, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Can you help me to negotiate the FreeBSD website? I am trying to find a general discussion about livefs. I have not been successful at entering the correct sequence of search terms to find a general discussion about this topic. I would like to know what this feature does, and the situation in which a user would wish to install it. My question would refer to either release 7 or release 8. Thanks for any and all enlightenment. Yours truly, Lee S. ---End Message--- ___ 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
Failed port upgrade
When running portupgrade the process is choking when it comes to consolekit. Here is the error message: gmake[2]: *** [libgirepository_1_0_la-gfield.lo] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/tmp/usr/ports/devel/gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.6.7/girepository' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/tmp/usr/ports/devel/gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.6.7' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gobject-introspection. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/polkit. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/consolekit. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade20091225-42364-180m9y8-0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=consolekit-0.4.1_1 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=0.4.1_1 make ** Fix the problem and try again. this obviously involves gobject-introspection and polkit, both of which refuse to make. I could find nothing in UPDATING about this. Rem ___ 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 for children
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 290, Issue 11, Message: 1 On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:53:49 +0700 Anh Ky Huynh ky...@viettug.org wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:33:14 + Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, perhaps drawing with commands, or making animations, or maybe music? Something that would make kids or that age curious, some programming environment that they can easily understand and enjoy. A programming game of sorts? I know the `logo` language (aport lang/ucblogo, lang/klogoturtle, etc) which is used in our educational environment (Vietnamese), but for the older pupils (= 10 years old). Hope this helps, Regards, -- Anh Ky Huynh Another vote for LOGO. Michael Grunewald mentions having learned it at 7, and I knew a couple of then 5-6 year olds who had good fun with it in '84 on the first 128K Macintosh, and before that on the Apple II. LOGO's simplicity is deceptive, to adults anyway, as it teaches quite advanced programming concepts straight away; the simple vector graphics lets kids make pretty geometrical drawings early on, teaching maths - especially trigonometry and dynamics - to kids before they could spell either, progressing easily to fairly sophisticated list processing, content addressible memory concepts and such if you dig into it a bit. I'd (still) recommend Seymour Papert's Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas (Harvester Press 1980) to anybody interested in introducing children to computer programming, especially using Logo. KDE3 includes Kturtle, not 'pure' Logo at all but a reasonable interface and some decent starter examples to see if kids find it interesting, then maybe move onto ucblogo (which I haven't played with, but looks fully-featured and well-documented on a quick scan of the pkglist) cheers, Ian ___ 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: clicky driver
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:10:45AM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: at first I'm lookings for a cots (commericial, off-the-shelf) solution. The XO has stereo speakers and so do the notebooks. I am thinking of the 'PC speaker'; something that would sound for around a 25th/second, very low and with at least some loudness control. Hi Gary, someone posted recently about the play-string language for /dev/speaker, see speaker(4). Could you do something with that? btw thanks to whoever posted the play-string code for frere jaques - cracked me up :) Chris Wow; the stuff I've never heard about:-) --I just tried spkrtest and have no /dev/speaker. The short answer [Guess] is no, I dont think so. If getting the keys to have an auditory feedback with beeps or shorter clicks were that easy, it would have been done after 15 years. Even Linux lacks this--and I'd bet Minux too. What I've got to do is pick up where I kwit ten years ago with the kernel driver code and drop the the code to make the speaker-audio create tiny, brief clicks, preferably low, thunky sounds like ye ancient IBM Selectrics. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ 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: clicky driver
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 02:43:56AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:47:49PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Nothing tactile, and because neither Linux nor BSD has an audio click, not even that. Sun does have a command line It should. The X window system provides a way to get keyclicks with xset(1). The command 'xset c 100' whould generate the loudest click possible. Whether you hear something depends e.g. on how the X server is started, and wether the hardware supports it. On my PC I hear the 'bell' from the PC speaker, but no clicks. Blow me away! Is there a version of xset without X11? Or: how do I get X up on my server? I.e.: what do I need to compile it and launch to get, say, twm up? I bought the loudest old-fashioned clicky keyboard (for like $80) and it's beautifully loud. Tactile Plus auditory feedback. It is beyond outstanding. But to bring this along with some notebook would not be practical. I can barely hear my desktop's beep when I have mail, so can't hear anything when I do % xset c 100 . Besides, in '99 I was able to gen up regular beep, beep, beep with each keystroke. --I killed that; after a minute it was driving me up the bloody wall. But that is the right approach. ---Nutshell, I would like someone with more kernel background than I have to help me. At least with the compile in diver, rebuild-install kernel script. Like Polyt noted, it won't be easy. But I think it's worth a couple weekends' of experimenting. What kind of desktop computer do you have? gary Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ 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
portaudit php vulnerabilities
For the past week or so, portaudit has been warning me that the installed version of php on my system (php5-5.2.11_1) has known vulnerabilties. Fair enough. However, I've not seen a fix in the ports tree since then. Is my only option to deinstall php until this gets fixed? ___ 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 3.5 and Epiphany crashing since the GNOME 2.28 update
I am suddenly running into the same problem. I was running Firefox 2.0... and when I right-clicked an image and selected save as the program segment-faulted. I upgraded to firefox-3.0.16_1,1. Same issue. I'm guessing it's related to some other port that got updated along the way. Data: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE Running blackbox-0.70.1_2 == What did you do? the man holding the flashlight asked. I put down a spider, he said, wondering why the man didn't see; in the beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger than life. So it could get away. ___ 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: portaudit php vulnerabilities
For the past week or so, portaudit has been warning me that the installed version of php on my system (php5-5.2.11_1) has known vulnerabilties. Fair enough. However, I've not seen a fix in the ports tree since then. Is my only option to deinstall php until this gets fixed? Hi. I've been experiencing the same problem. Apparently 5.2.12 is not in the ports yet, but probably will be soon. If found it necessary to do some port-related commands even though 5.2.11 is currently blacklisted by portaudit. You can use DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES in your commands as outlined here until there is an updated port: http://www.ivorde.ro/FreeBSD_force_port_installation_upgrade_even_though_portaudit_reports_vulnerability_for_it-64.html ___ 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
