Re: boting straight into firefox

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Polytropon  wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:30:32 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>> >> I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI)
>> >> browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better?
>> >
>> > Maybe it's worth considering that in case the menu bar,
>> > navigation bar and all the other (mostly nonsense) bars
>> > of web browsers are not needed for the purpose described
>> > above.
>>
>> It is a client requirement.    The client is replacing a windows based
>> solution with FreeBSD and for what ever reasons all the sites that
>> need to be displayed are specific to ff (the use features only found
>> in it or IE 9).
>
> Okay, understandable. In this case your choice is limited,
> but that shouldn't be a big problem. Just see how firefox
> can be brought into fullscreen mode, either by one of its
> own options, or by using the generic -geometry option as
> shown in the "dillo" example.
>
>        firefox -width 1024 -height 768
>
> But "firefox -help" doesn't show parameters for positioning,
> and also by pressing PF11 for "interactively entered fullscreen
> mode", the navigational elements keep being present. But
> maybe there's something you can do by configuration file,
> so getting rid of navigational bars should be possible too.

There are several extensions that do it already and if for some reason
non-work it looks trivial to make one
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Re: boting straight into firefox

[Polytropon]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:30:32 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> >> I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI)
> >> browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better?
> >
> > Maybe it's worth considering that in case the menu bar,
> > navigation bar and all the other (mostly nonsense) bars
> > of web browsers are not needed for the purpose described
> > above.
> 
> It is a client requirement.The client is replacing a windows based
> solution with FreeBSD and for what ever reasons all the sites that
> need to be displayed are specific to ff (the use features only found
> in it or IE 9).

Okay, understandable. In this case your choice is limited,
but that shouldn't be a big problem. Just see how firefox
can be brought into fullscreen mode, either by one of its
own options, or by using the generic -geometry option as
shown in the "dillo" example.

firefox -width 1024 -height 768

But "firefox -help" doesn't show parameters for positioning,
and also by pressing PF11 for "interactively entered fullscreen
mode", the navigational elements keep being present. But
maybe there's something you can do by configuration file,
so getting rid of navigational bars should be possible too.



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Re: boting straight into firefox

[Aryeh Friedman]

>> I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI)
>> browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better?
>
> Maybe it's worth considering that in case the menu bar,
> navigation bar and all the other (mostly nonsense) bars
> of web browsers are not needed for the purpose described
> above.

It is a client requirement.The client is replacing a windows based
solution with FreeBSD and for what ever reasons all the sites that
need to be displayed are specific to ff (the use features only found
in it or IE 9).
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Re: boting straight into firefox

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:37:35 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:00:31PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> > I am setting a read only kiosk (it displays various web pages
> > progmatically and has *NO OTHER* function) and security is not a
> > concern because the hardware is locked away and need to find the most
> > hands free way method of going from power on to full screen
> > www/firefox is it sufficent to have a su to a non-root user and
> > then run startx in /etc/rc(.local) [I have a custom /etc/rc so I do
> > not need rc.local)
> 
> I don't know the process for setting that up off the top of my head.
> Perhaps a minimal window manager with only one workspace and the browser
> executed in your .xinitrc file would do the trick.  I seem to recall
> there is a way to turn off access to TTY consoles, too.

No need for a window manager - the program itself should
have control of the session, and if it's run in fullscreen,
fine! You don't need a window manager anyway as you're not
going to manage any windows - and therefore get rid of (in
this case) useless title bars (if any).



> I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI)
> browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better?

Maybe it's worth considering that in case the menu bar, 
navigation bar and all the other (mostly nonsense) bars
of web browsers are not needed for the purpose described
above.

An example can be obtained by pressing PF11 in Opera. :-)

Oh, and check out the "dillo" web browser - it's fast
and simple and may be sufficient. From "dillo --help",
you can see that it even supports a fullscreen mode.
You can use this -f parameter together with -g for the
geometry settings to make it as big as the screen, e. g.

dillo -f -g 1024x768+0+0 /what/to/display.html

But as I said, it depends on _what_ you actually want to
display (in terms of HTML content).



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Re: boting straight into firefox

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:00:31 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> I am setting a read only kiosk (it displays various web pages
> progmatically and has *NO OTHER* function) and security is not a
> concern because the hardware is locked away and need to find the most
> hands free way method of going from power on to full screen
> www/firefox is it sufficent to have a su to a non-root user and
> then run startx in /etc/rc(.local) [I have a custom /etc/rc so I do
> not need rc.local)

Automated login for that user, then ~/xinitrc with no window
manager, but exec as firefox (parameterized into fullscreen),
and in case the the program crashes (and therefore quits X),
re-execution of the whole process could be a way to do that.

You don't need to start X in rc.local as this can be done
by the "display" user (allow me to call it that way).

For example, you put the following into /etc/ttys:

ttyv0  "/usr/libexec/getty autodisplay"  cons25  on  secure

The name "autodisplay" will now be used for the "TTY profile"
will be used to allow auto-login for a specific user.

Then you add the following to /etc/gettytab:

autodisplay:\
:al=ffdisplay:tc=Pc:

Put it after the "default" section. In this example "ffdisplay"
(Firefox display user) is the name of the user that should be
performing the functionality you want.

Add the user "ffdisplay", and add to his ~/.login:

[ ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] && startx

This will perform the "startx" command, which reads its
initialization from ~/.xinitrc:

exec firefox --geometry  -other -switches

Maybe you can check "firefox -help" for parameters that
can help here.

To put the "error loop" into this construct - which would
in case of a Firefox crash return to the command line! -,
you can easily construct a loop in the .login file around
the "extended" startx command.



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Re: boting straight into firefox

[Chad Perrin]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:00:31PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> I am setting a read only kiosk (it displays various web pages
> progmatically and has *NO OTHER* function) and security is not a
> concern because the hardware is locked away and need to find the most
> hands free way method of going from power on to full screen
> www/firefox is it sufficent to have a su to a non-root user and
> then run startx in /etc/rc(.local) [I have a custom /etc/rc so I do
> not need rc.local)

I don't know the process for setting that up off the top of my head.
Perhaps a minimal window manager with only one workspace and the browser
executed in your .xinitrc file would do the trick.  I seem to recall
there is a way to turn off access to TTY consoles, too.

I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI)
browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better?

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boting straight into firefox

[Aryeh Friedman]

I am setting a read only kiosk (it displays various web pages
progmatically and has *NO OTHER* function) and security is not a
concern because the hardware is locked away and need to find the most
hands free way method of going from power on to full screen
www/firefox is it sufficent to have a su to a non-root user and
then run startx in /etc/rc(.local) [I have a custom /etc/rc so I do
not need rc.local)
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Re: atheros 9285 wifi

[freebsd-questions]

On Thu 14/07/11  9:28 PM , Maciej Milewski  wrote:On czwartek, 14
lipca 2011 04:25:59 Polytropon wrote:
 > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:02:02 +1000, freebsd-
  wrote:
 > >  So are you saying I can't just grab the ath module?
 > 
 > Depends. Maybe a newer version of the module requires a more
 > recent version of the kernel, because a new interface or
 > function was added...
 > 
 > > I'd rather stick to release, but I guess if I'm having to rebuild
the
 > > kernel each update...
 > 
 > You _can_ try to just compile (1st step) and load (2nd step)
 > the module with the RELEASE kernel, but it's not guaranteed
 > to work. Both steps may require updates in sources or in the
 > running kernel as illustrated above.
 You may try to get ath driver from -HEAD and compile it with your
RELENG_8 
 tree[1]. There are many fixes for this chipset in the -HEAD. The
coming 9 will 
 have it(I don't know the timeframe for the release though)
 [1]
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2011-May/000224.html
[2]"
target="_blank">http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2011-May/000224.html
 Ok, I tried that- I did look into running stable as well, something
Polytropon  mentioned which twigged and I thought I might go that way,
but looking into it further it is still a development branch. I think
I need a bit more stability for my users.

I bit the bullet and built subversion (which I'm more comfortable with
than cvs) and pulled down ath from head (specifically
head/sys/dev/ath, head/sys/modules/ath, head/sys/modules/ath_pci -
tried stable as well, but got the same result as now). I'm having
trouble building though (if I need to switch to a different list let
me know - just a little painful with no working network): I get some
odd file not found errors on some includes (headers from ath_hal
specifically), and when I fix that I get HAL_PHYERR_PARAM not defined
errors which I can't quite figure out. A point in the right direction
will do; right now I'm getting lost in the maze a bit.

I'm going to keep trying to untangle this, but some assistance would
be appreciated.

Cheers
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Re: help

[Polytropon]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:06:06 +0300, Erman Zülfükaroğlu wrote:
> Hi , I try to mount free bsd to Windows sharing folder.
> mount_smbs -I 10.0.0.x  /10.0.0.x/share folder name /mnt/mount folder

Is this the full command? Seems to contain too many spaces...



> but i can't.
> mount_smbfs=unable open to connection syserr=connection refused

Maybe you need tp specify user name and password for access?



> samba installed.

Do you have required settings in /etc/nsmb.conf, like workgroup
name, host address or password? Also did you quote irregular
characters (like spaces) in the directory name properly?

See "man nsmb.conf" for details.



Sorry I can't be more specific as I'm not a "Windows" person.
That's why I'd like to mention that the correct term for a
directory is "directory", not "folder" (which is the name
of an arbitrary symbol representing a directory). :-)



Here's an example of accessing a CIFS share on a "Windows"
PC using FreeBSD:

In /etc/nsmb.conf, we have:

[default]
workgroup=HARDLYWORKING

[WINPC]
addr=192.168.2.2

[WINPC:Administrator]
password=TOPSECRET

In /etc/fstab, the "DOS drive letters" of the "Windows" PC
are represented as follows:

//Administrator@WINPC/a$  /smb/a  smbfs  rw,noauto  0  0
//Administrator@WINPC/c$  /smb/c  smbfs  rw,noauto  0  0
//Administrator@WINPC/d$  /smb/d  smbfs  rw,noauto  0  0
//Administrator@WINPC/e$  /smb/e  smbfs  rw,noauto  0  0
//Administrator@WINPC/f$  /smb/f  smbfs  rw,noauto  0  0

Then the mount command can be performed like this:

# mount /smb/c

But as I said, I've not bothered with "Windows" so I can't
tell you how to mount a CIFS share representing a subdirectory
on a specific drive.

I am also quite sure that using "Administrator" for accessing
is a bad idea, but it's not _my_ idea - I just found this little
example shown above in my binary garbage can. :-)

See "man mount_smbfs" for details.

Still I hope this gives you some help and further inspirations
on what to read.



PS. It's useful specifying a subject related to your
question, not just "help".


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Re: help

[Mario Lobo]

On Thursday 14 July 2011 20:06:06 Erman Zülfükaroğlu wrote:
> Hi , I try to mount free bsd to Windows sharing folder.
> mount_smbs -I 10.0.0.x  /10.0.0.x/share folder name /mnt/mount folder
> 
> but i can't.
> mount_smbfs=unable open to connection syserr=connection refused
> 
> samba installed.
> 
> Please help ,
> 
> Thanks
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Which windows version? 
Is the folder shared properly? Win 7 is pretty rough on sharing folders.

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Re: ghghg

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:28:10PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:28:10 -0500
> From: Ryan Coleman 
> Subject: Re: ghghg
> To: Gary Kline 
> Cc: Bal?zs M?t?ffy , FreeBSD
>  
> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084)
> 
> Maybe... or your keyboard is broken. :)


yes and no.  night before last i was drinking coffee here
and spilled the cup onto several keys of my 'clicky' keybd
... it was 90 bux...   i really do ned the feeedack of the
click.  yeesterday a friend spent three or four trips doon
th hill until i have a 10 dollar keybd.  

a new one should be here in a weeek.  [[[ and yes, NEVER
AGAIN will iever drink anything hereat my desk.
=_*never*_=]]].

see if this get sto the list.


> 
> On Jul 14, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> > Apologies to everyone.  i've ben trying to get mail going
> > between here to -questions fr 11 days and NOTHING seemd to
> > ork   i really didnt think this ould work.  speciallly
> > after
> > ail to -test bouncedd: "not available"
> > 
> > .
> > 
> > have i found "the last bug"?
> > 
> 

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help

[Erman Zülfükaroğlu]

Hi , I try to mount free bsd to Windows sharing folder.
mount_smbs -I 10.0.0.x  /10.0.0.x/share folder name /mnt/mount folder

but i can't.
mount_smbfs=unable open to connection syserr=connection refused

samba installed.

Please help ,

Thanks
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Re: DOSBox: whole screen turns black

[perryh]

Adding emulation@ in hopes someone there will have an idea.

emulation@ folks, please keep Philipp in the To: or Cc: since he may
not be subscribed to emulation@.  The original question is here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-July/231716.html

Philipp  wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:37:51 -0700
> per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
>
> > It sure sounds as if the video signal coming out of the graphics
> > card is beyond the monitor's range.
> > 
> > That's not supposed to happen with recent xorg, unless the monitor
> > is misreporting its capabilities when the graphics card interrogates
> > it or something (related to DOSBox?) is issuing an xrandr for an
> > unsupported mode.
> > 
> > What kind of monitor?
>
> It's an Acer S221HQLBD connected via DVI-D (Dual Link).
> My Xorg is version 1.7.7.
>
> Maybe it's an issue with too small VRAM. I've limited
> VRAM in BIOS to 16 MB, because I've only 1 GB of RAM
> and the GMA 3000 doesn't own real VRAM. I'm going to
> proof it this afternoon.
[subsequent message]
> I changed the BIOS settings to fixed video memory
> allocation (128 MB) but it doesn't help.
>
> By the way: I had the same problem with the parole
> media player on Xfce 4.8 (but then moved to GNOME).
>
> Any further suggestions?

Did the system memory size report near the top of the dmesg change
when you changed the VRAM size?  (I think it should have, since the
VRAM should be off limits to all other uses, but I don't know the
area well enough to be sure.)  If it didn't, I suppose there may be
some kind of weird conflict over memory usage.

Other than that I am out of ideas.  Maybe someone on emulation@
will know about interactions between it and the video subsystem.
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Re: ghghg

[Ryan Coleman]

Maybe... or your keyboard is broken. :)

On Jul 14, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Gary Kline wrote:

>   Apologies to everyone.  i've ben trying to get mail going
>   between here to -questions fr 11 days and NOTHING seemd to
>   ork   i really didnt think this ould work.  speciallly
>   after
>   ail to -test bouncedd: "not available"
> 
>   .
> 
>   have i found "the last bug"?
> 

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Re: ghghg

[Gary Kline]

Apologies to everyone.  i've ben trying to get mail going
between here to -questions fr 11 days and NOTHING seemd to
ork   i really didnt think this ould work.  speciallly
after
ail to -test bouncedd: "not available"

.

have i found "the last bug"?


On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:05:18AM +0200, Bal?zs M?t?ffy wrote:
> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:05:18 +0200
> From: Bal?zs M?t?ffy 
> Subject: Re: ghghg
> To: FreeBSD 
> 
> On 14 July 2011 23:58, Jerry  wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:48:43 -0700
> > Gary Kline articulated:
> >
> > > testing
> >
> > What?
> >
> > Did you check this URL out:
> > 
> >
> > --
> > Jerry ???
> > jerry+f...@seibercom.net
> >
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Re: ghghg

[Balázs Mátéffy]

On 14 July 2011 23:58, Jerry  wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:48:43 -0700
> Gary Kline articulated:
>
> > testing
>
> What?
>
> Did you check this URL out:
> 
>
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Our patience?

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Re: ghghg

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:48:43 -0700
Gary Kline  wrote:

> testing

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-test

About freebsd-test  English (USA)

If you need to do a test post, do it here.

Thanks.
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Re: ghghg

[Jerry]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:48:43 -0700
Gary Kline articulated:

> testing

What?

Did you check this URL out:


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Boot from DVD fails on Dell Inspiron 8000

[CT]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to do a fresh install on a quite old Dell Laptop Inspiron
8000. No matter what boot option I choose, the startup stops.

If I choose option #5 verbose logging, I'm able to see a message
reading:  fdc0: output ready timeout

There isn't even a floppy installed in the modular bay. I have a fix
installed CD/RW drive and a modular DVD drive from which I boot the
installation DVD.

I tried to boot from a CD as well, but the effect is the same, so it
looks like there is some problem in hardware probing.

Any suggestions ?

Regards, Chris
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Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 05:08:16PM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
> > I would advise you to get TeXLive instead, but that is just me.  You
> > can install from TeXLive DVD, or go get a DVD with packages:
>  
>  I would second that. It comes comlete with FreeBSD binaries for i386 and 
> amd64 in the 2010 release and installing it is really easy.
> 
> > I hoped for a true native port for TeXLive

TeXLive has its own configuration UI because it has a lot of options. It even
has its own package manager. I think that makes it a poor fit for the ports
infrastructure.

> I can't see that it's really necessary. I remember difficulties with the 2009 
> release when FreeBSD binaries were not included but now they are the 
> installation is headache-free.

The only problem is that some ports that use *TeX require teTeX from
ports. I've gotten around that by patching the port makefiles in question, but
I have to re-apply those patches every time those ports are updated. Not that
big of a deal, but something to watch out for.

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Re: Recurring ICMP Bad Checksum Warning

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jul 14, 2011, at 5:18 AM, monarci wrote:
> I am currently running a company's FreeBSD web server and I am constantly
> receiving the ICMP Bad Checksum warning.  

You most likely have a NIC with hardware checksum capabilities; tcpdump sees 
outgoing packets before the hardware generates the checksums.  You can 
double-check by sniffing the traffic from a laptop connected to a monitoring 
port of the switch, or put a hub in place for testing so that the laptop also 
receives the traffic.

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Re: OCI support in PHP is dead

[Victor Sudakov]

Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > The databases/php5-oci8 port exists no more, and databases/php52-oci8
> > is marked as vulnerable.
> > 
> 
> Oracle 8 is pretty obsolete now.  Now, the only options for getting more
> up to date support are
> 
>-- persuading Oracle to release eg. an Oracle Instant Client package
>   for FreeBSD
> 
>-- somehow being able to use the Linux client software under
>   emulation.
> 
> I've no idea what Oracle's response to the first option would be, but I
> suspect their response might well be that they won't get enough return
> to justify the cost of producing a FreeBSD native client.
> 
> The second option looks pretty difficult to me -- making a PHP shared
> object that links to a Linux shlib but that is itself linked into
> various PHP applications.

I suspected that databases/linux-oracle-instantclient-basic is
virtually useless.


> 
> The future looks Postgresql shaped to me.
> 

I don't believe so. Our in-house sites use Postgres, but sometimes
they have to interact with commercial systems (ERP, NetID etc)
and I don't envision commercial vendors moving from Oracle to Postgres
any time soon. 

I even considered running sqlplus via ssh but this is too ugly and not
compatible with PHP frameworks. Seems that FreeBSD has lost yet
another niche in our company. Which is a real pity because Linux is a
pain in the ass and Solaris is not free.

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Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

> I would advise you to get TeXLive instead, but that is just me.  You
> can install from TeXLive DVD, or go get a DVD with packages:
 
 I would second that. It comes comlete with FreeBSD binaries for i386 and amd64 
in the 2010 release and installing it is really easy.

> I hoped for a true native port for TeXLive

I can't see that it's really necessary. I remember difficulties with the 2009 
release when FreeBSD binaries were not included but now they are the 
installation is headache-free.

jamie.
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Re: when compile,gcc can not work?

[Lowell Gilbert]

jyl_2006  writes:

> Anyone who encounter this problem?
> checking whether the complier (*gcc -L/usr/local/v6/lib*) works... no
>
> The gcc version is 4.2.1 20070719 .And if I complie a simple program such as
> hello,world. It works well,but when I compile mozilla,it shows the problme?

Use the ports system; handling this sort of thing is exactly what it's
there for.
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Re: DOSBox: whole screen turns black

[Philipp]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:37:51 -0700
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:

> It sure sounds as if the video signal coming out of the graphics
> card is beyond the monitor's range.
> 
> That's not supposed to happen with recent xorg, unless the monitor
> is misreporting its capabilities when the graphics card interrogates
> it or something (related to DOSBox?) is issuing an xrandr for an
> unsupported mode.
> 
> What kind of monitor?

I changed the BIOS settings to fixed video memory allocation (128 MB)
but it doesn't help.

By the way: I had the same problem with the parole media
player on Xfce 4.8 (but then moved to GNOME).

Any further suggestions?

Philipp
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when compile,gcc can not work?

[jyl_2006]

Anyone who encounter this problem?
checking whether the complier (*gcc -L/usr/local/v6/lib*) works... no

The gcc version is 4.2.1 20070719 .And if I complie a simple program such as
hello,world. It works well,but when I compile mozilla,it shows the problme?

Thanks in advance. 

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Recurring ICMP Bad Checksum Warning

[monarci]

I am currently running a company's FreeBSD web server and I am constantly
receiving the ICMP Bad Checksum warning.  It tells me that the severity is
low, but I've read that it may be best to block such traffic.  This advice
comes from
http://www.fortiguard.com/encyclopedia/vulnerability/icmp.bad.checksum.html

My question is should I try to block this traffic, and if so, what is the
best way?  This is my first time managing a UNIX-based server and am really
loving it, but still have a lot to learn.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: atheros 9285 wifi

[Maciej Milewski]

On czwartek, 14 lipca 2011 04:25:59 Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:02:02 +1000, freebsd-
questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:
> >  So are you saying I can't just grab the ath module?
> 
> Depends. Maybe a newer version of the module requires a more
> recent version of the kernel, because a new interface or
> function was added...
> 
> > I'd rather stick to release, but I guess if I'm having to rebuild the
> > kernel each update...
> 
> You _can_ try to just compile (1st step) and load (2nd step)
> the module with the RELEASE kernel, but it's not guaranteed
> to work. Both steps may require updates in sources or in the
> running kernel as illustrated above.
You may try to get ath driver from -HEAD and compile it with your RELENG_8 
tree[1]. There are many fixes for this chipset in the -HEAD. The coming 9 will 
have it(I don't know the timeframe for the release though)

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2011-May/000224.html

Maciej
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Re: CUPS and Windows Printers

[Jerry]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:49:59 -0700
James Colannino articulated:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> I've been Googling around, trying to figure out how to see Windows 
> printers via CUPS on FreeBSD, but so far, all I've found are links 
> describing how to share FreeBSD printers with Windows boxes.  Can
> anyone tell me how I can connect to Windows printers via CUPS + Samba
> so that I can start getting some work done at the office? :)  Thanks
> so much!

I have a wireless HP printer connected to both Windows and FreeBSD
boxes. Unfortunately, at least as far as I could tell, there is
no way to simply use the Windows' driver. I installed the "hplip" port
and it all, after some experimentation, worked well. It is still not as
easy as printing from a Windows box to a FreeBSD printer, but it does
work.

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Re: OCI support in PHP is dead

[Svein Skogen (Listmail account)]

On 14.07.2011 11:43, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 14/07/2011 07:16, Victor Sudakov wrote:
>> The databases/php5-oci8 port exists no more, and databases/php52-oci8
>> is marked as vulnerable.
>>
> 
> Oracle 8 is pretty obsolete now.  Now, the only options for getting more
> up to date support are
> 
>-- persuading Oracle to release eg. an Oracle Instant Client package
>   for FreeBSD
> 
>-- somehow being able to use the Linux client software under
>   emulation.
> 
> I've no idea what Oracle's response to the first option would be, but I
> suspect their response might well be that they won't get enough return
> to justify the cost of producing a FreeBSD native client.

I suspect getting oracle to create such a client would cost (per user)
about half a cent less than replacing the oracle DB would. They're
(in)famous for such calculations.

> The second option looks pretty difficult to me -- making a PHP shared
> object that links to a Linux shlib but that is itself linked into
> various PHP applications.

This one might be a bit cheaper.

> The future looks Postgresql shaped to me.

Or any other non-yacht-sponsoring DB.

//Svein

p.s. I've had the "pleasure" of having dealt with Oracle on several
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Re: OCI support in PHP is dead

[Matthew Seaman]

On 14/07/2011 07:16, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> The databases/php5-oci8 port exists no more, and databases/php52-oci8
> is marked as vulnerable.
> 

Oracle 8 is pretty obsolete now.  Now, the only options for getting more
up to date support are

   -- persuading Oracle to release eg. an Oracle Instant Client package
  for FreeBSD

   -- somehow being able to use the Linux client software under
  emulation.

I've no idea what Oracle's response to the first option would be, but I
suspect their response might well be that they won't get enough return
to justify the cost of producing a FreeBSD native client.

The second option looks pretty difficult to me -- making a PHP shared
object that links to a Linux shlib but that is itself linked into
various PHP applications.

The future looks Postgresql shaped to me.

Cheers,

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OCI support in PHP is dead

[Victor Sudakov]

Dear Colleagues,

The databases/php5-oci8 port exists no more, and databases/php52-oci8
is marked as vulnerable.

According to
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/lang/php5/Makefile.ext#rev1.71
and 

./configure --with-oci8=/usr/local/oracle8-client/
[dd]
checking Oracle ORACLE_HOME install directory...  /usr/local/oracle8-client/
checking ORACLE_HOME library validity... lib
checking Oracle version... 8.1
configure: error: Oracle client libraries < 9.2 are not supported

there is very little hope. Should I migrate the intranet sites to
Linux/Solaris or what?  Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Do you perhaps know of some broker I could install to the Oracle
servers to continue running PHP+Oracle client on FreeBSD?

Does anyone run Oracle client on FreeBSD? What is your view of the
future?

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Re: DOSBox: whole screen turns black

[Philipp]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:37:51 -0700
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:

> It sure sounds as if the video signal coming out of the graphics
> card is beyond the monitor's range.
> 
> That's not supposed to happen with recent xorg, unless the monitor
> is misreporting its capabilities when the graphics card interrogates
> it or something (related to DOSBox?) is issuing an xrandr for an
> unsupported mode.
> 
> What kind of monitor?

It's an Acer S221HQLBD connected via DVI-D (Dual Link). My Xorg is version 
1.7.7.

Maybe it's an issue with too small VRAM. I've limited VRAM in BIOS to 16 MB, 
because I've only 1 GB of RAM and the GMA 3000 doesn't own real VRAM. I'm going 
to proof it this afternoon.
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