from:"Alexander"


On 10/28/2012 03:00 AM, Bryan Drewery wrote:

PKGNG is a replacement for the pkg_* tools that record package data in
/var/db/pkg.

It also allows for binary package upgrades.

If you are wanting to use pkgng for binary packages, there's no need to
use portupgrade anymore. Just 'pkg install name', 'pkg upgrade', etc.
   

Understood. Thanks.

For some reason I thought I could use the PKGNG tool set together with 
portupgrade the same way the pkg_* tools are used.


Is there a straightforward way to go back to using the pkg_* tools in 9.1?

Thanks.

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Re: Portupgrade now supports pkgng [/usr/ports/UPDATING]


Got it.

Thanks.

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Re: Portupgrade now supports pkgng [/usr/ports/UPDATING]


On 10/28/2012 04:27 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:

pkg is able to make packages upgrade by itself. I think the good way
to update with packages is pkg updgrade then portupgrade to build the
ports without packages avalaible.

Anyway I had many problems with portupgrade and pkg (basically It was
not able to build its database because of inconsistency in
ports dependencies), portmaster with pkgng patch looks better.

Regards.
   

Understood. Thanks.

I'll look into that.

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Re: Problem with connecting FreeBSD 8.3 to wireless network


On 10/28/12 20:50, Manish Jain wrote:

# dmesg | grep -i ath

Empty output 
Doesn't look like your atheros network card has been detected by your 
system.


Did you check the ath(4) man page to see if your particular piece of 
hardware is supported on FreeBSD 8.3?

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=athsektion=4manpath=FreeBSD+8.3-RELEASE
HARDWARE
 The ath driver supports all Atheros Cardbus and PCI cards, except 
those

 that are based on the AR5005VL chipset.

I'm running:
box0=; uname -a
FreeBSD box0.my.domain 9.1-RC2 FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 #0 r241133: Tue Oct 2 
17:11:45 UTC 2012 
r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


And my atheros card is supported.

box0=; dmesg | grep ath
ath0: Atheros 5424/2424 mem 0xd600-0xd600 irq 16 at device 0.0 
on pci2

ath0: AR2425 mac 14.2 RF5424 phy 7.0

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Re: No sound from speaker, using Realtek ALC269 and snd_hda

2012-10-28 Thread Alexander Motin


On 28.10.2012 17:12, Big Yuuta wrote:

I have an asus eeepc 1001px, on which I installed 9-stable.
I, since day one, never had any sound coming out of the speaker,
but when I plug a headphone in the jack, I have the sound -in the
headphones.

The chipset is a Realtek ALC269 which some people said is supported.


Now driver support most of CODECs. I don't know cases when specific 
CODEC would be a problem, and Realtek CODECs from functional side are 
better then many others. But many systems have custom wiring and laptops 
are usually more problematic there.



I read, and re-read the man page for snd_hda so many times,
but I just can't make it work.

Here's what I have right now in my device.hints

Code:

hint.hdaa.0.nid20.config=as=1 seq=0 device=Speaker
hint.hdaa.0.nid26.config=as=1 seq=15 device=Headphones
hint.hdaa.0.nid18.config=as=2 seq=0


As I see, these three hints are replicating existing configuration and 
effectively useless.



#hint.hdaa.0.gpio_config=0=set
hint.hdaa.0.config=forcestereo,ivref50,ivref80,ivref100,ivref,vref
hint.pcm.0.config=gpio0,gpio1,gpio2,gpio3,gpio4,gpio5,gpio6,gpio7
hint.pcm.0.vol=100

This is my n'th attempt, I pretty tried everything I could imagine.

Here's my verbose dmesg http://dpaste.com/818967/plain/

Am I missing something? Is my understanding of pinouts correct?


CODEC configuration looks good and I see no problems in driver output. I 
think most likely problem is in CODEC wiring and power amplifier. Your 
CODEC has two GPIO lines and EAPD line. That gives 8 possible 
combinations. I would recommend you to try them all. GPIOs, as you tried 
could be set with hint.hdaa.0.gpio_config tunable. EAPD line can be 
controlled (0 or 100) by the ogain mixer control.


Unluckily with this output I can't completely identify your system to 
check what Linux does for it. Could you send me `devinfo -vr` output.


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Re: No sound from speaker, using Realtek ALC269 and snd_hda

2012-10-28 Thread Alexander Motin


On 28.10.2012 22:09, Big Yuuta wrote:

CODEC configuration looks good and I see no problems in driver output. I
think most likely problem is in CODEC wiring and power amplifier. Your CODEC
has two GPIO lines and EAPD line. That gives 8 possible combinations. I
would recommend you to try them all. GPIOs, as you tried could be set with
hint.hdaa.0.gpio_config tunable. EAPD line can be controlled (0 or 100) by
the ogain mixer control.


You mean combinations like:

hint.hdaa.0.gpio_config=0=set 1=set 2=set


As I've told, there are only two GPIO pins, so only 0=X 1=Y, plus 
ogain mixer control.



Where the values could be set or keep? But then again, the man
also cites clear, disable, input. So that'd make more than 8 possible
permutations? Or is it something else? Can you please give me an example?


GPIO pins are bidirectional, but I have doubt that input or high 
impedance (disable) state could be used to control something. keep 
is also useless, as by default these pins are disabled. So you have only 
set and clear.



Also, can I, after booting, just try with:

kenv  hint.hdaa.0.gpio_config=0=set 1=set 2=set
kdunload snd_hda.ko
kdload snd_hda.ko


Yes, that should work.


or should I reboot each time?


I don't think it is required.

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Re: No sound from speaker, using Realtek ALC269 and snd_hda

2012-10-28 Thread Alexander Motin


On 28.10.2012 23:20, Big Yuuta wrote:

Unfortunately, trying with the different combinations didn't work.

I wrote this tiny script just to make sure I'm not forgetting a case:

#!/bin/sh
echo testing with: $1 - $2;
kenv hint.hdaa.0.gpio_config=0=$1 1=$2;
kldunload snd_hda.ko;
kldload snd_hda.ko;
mplayer song.mp3;

and I run it like this:

./test.sh set set
./test.sh set clear
./test.sh clear set
./test.sh clear clear

And nothing came out of the speaker, alas :(


Alas. I'll just remind one more time about `mixer ogain`.

Also check that pin sensing is working. Try to plug in/out headphones. 
With verbose messages enabled, you should see messages about that on 
console and in logs.



What's strange is that the speaker actually works with OSS from ports,
but when I use it (OSS) with mplayer it crashes the whole system
whenever I try to skip in a video/audio file

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Big Yuuta init...@gmail.com wrote:

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote:

On 28.10.2012 22:09, Big Yuuta wrote:


CODEC configuration looks good and I see no problems in driver output. I
think most likely problem is in CODEC wiring and power amplifier. Your
CODEC
has two GPIO lines and EAPD line. That gives 8 possible combinations. I
would recommend you to try them all. GPIOs, as you tried could be set
with
hint.hdaa.0.gpio_config tunable. EAPD line can be controlled (0 or 100)
by
the ogain mixer control.



You mean combinations like:

hint.hdaa.0.gpio_config=0=set 1=set 2=set



As I've told, there are only two GPIO pins, so only 0=X 1=Y, plus ogain
mixer control.


So that would be:

hint.hdaa.0.gpio_config=0=set 1=set
hint.hdaa.0.gpio_config=0=set 1=clear
hint.hdaa.0.gpio_config=0=clear 1=set
hint.hdaa.0.gpio_config=0=clear 1=clear

which I try with:

mixer ogain 0:0
mixer ogain 100:100

I'm going to check once again, but I think that unfortunately that didn't work.
I hope that I forgot a combination!

Thanks again, Alexander



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re: Portupgrade now supports pkgng [/usr/ports/UPDATING]

2012-10-27 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


Quick question about portupgrade's support for pkgng.

The /usr/ports/UPDATING says:
20121015:
  AFFECTS: users of ports-mgmt/portupgrade
  AUTHOR: bdrew...@freebsd.org

  Portupgrade now supports pkgng. To use pkgng, enable it in your 
make.conf,

  and convert your databases.

  This is optional and not currently required.

  # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg install clean
  # echo 'WITH_PKGNG=yes'  /etc/make.conf
  # pkg2ng
  # pkgdb -fu

Having done all of the above, I ran portupgrade to update all the pkgs 
that needed upgrading on my system, and got the message below:

root@box0:/root/tmp # portupgrade -varRP --batch -L '%s_%s'
USING PKGNG
Packages are not yet suported. Use pkg(8) directly.

That doesn't sound like portupgrade supports pkgng, or did I misread the 
message in the UPDATING file?


box0=; uname -a
FreeBSD box0.my.domain 9.1-RC2 FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 #0 r241133: Tue Oct 2 
17:11:45 UTC 2012 
r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


Thanks.

Alexander Kapshuk.

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Fwd: re: Portupgrade now supports pkgng [/usr/ports/UPDATING]

2012-10-27 Thread Alexander Kapshuk

If my reading the code snippet below is right, portupgrade-2.4.10.2 does 
not support pkgng yet if pkgdb has been converted for use with pkgng 
using pkg2ng.


/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade/work/pkgtools-2.4.10.2/bin/portupgrade:561,565
# FIXME: pkgng
  if $use_packages  $pkgdb.with_pkgng?
STDERR.puts Packages are not yet suported. Use pkg(8) directly.
return 0
  end


 Original Message 
Subject:re: Portupgrade now supports pkgng [/usr/ports/UPDATING]
Date:   Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:22:32 +0300
From:   Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org



Quick question about portupgrade's support for pkgng.

The /usr/ports/UPDATING says:
20121015:
  AFFECTS: users of ports-mgmt/portupgrade
  AUTHOR: bdrew...@freebsd.org

  Portupgrade now supports pkgng. To use pkgng, enable it in your
make.conf,
  and convert your databases.

  This is optional and not currently required.

  # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg install clean
  # echo 'WITH_PKGNG=yes'  /etc/make.conf
  # pkg2ng
  # pkgdb -fu

Having done all of the above, I ran portupgrade to update all the pkgs
that needed upgrading on my system, and got the message below:
root@box0:/root/tmp # portupgrade -varRP --batch -L '%s_%s'
USING PKGNG
Packages are not yet suported. Use pkg(8) directly.

That doesn't sound like portupgrade supports pkgng, or did I misread the
message in the UPDATING file?

box0=; uname -a
FreeBSD box0.my.domain 9.1-RC2 FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 #0 r241133: Tue Oct 2
17:11:45 UTC 2012
r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

Thanks.

Alexander Kapshuk.




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Re: Firefox install problem

2012-09-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


On 09/04/2012 08:11 PM, Mario Lobo wrote:

/bin/mv -f /usr/ports/www/firefox/work/fake/lib/pkgconfig
/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/fake/libdata/  || true
mv: rename /usr/ports/www/firefox/work/fake/lib/pkgconfig to
/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/fake/libdata/pkgconfig: No such file or
directory
/bin/rm -f /usr/ports/www/firefox/work/fake/lib/pkgconfig
   

This might help...

/usr/ports/UPDATING

20120726:
  AFFECTS: users of devel/pkg-config
  AUTHOR: b...@freebsd.org

  devel/pkg-config has been replaced by devel/pkgconf

  # portmaster -o devel/pkgconf devel/pkg-config
  or
  # portupgrade -fo devel/pkgconf pkg-config-\*

  pkgng:
  # pkg set -o devel/pkg-config:devel/pkgconf
  # pkg install -f devel/pkgconf

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Re: Firefox install problem

2012-09-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


On 09/04/2012 10:29 PM, Mario Lobo wrote:

Thank Alexander but been there, done that.

pkg_info | grep pkg
pkgconf-0.8.7 pkg-config compatible utility which does not depend on glib


Hopefully, somebody else on the list will be of more help than I have been.

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Re: Wrong version of sources?

2012-09-02 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


On 09/02/12 16:19, Walter Hurry wrote:

Thanks for the reply. No, I haven't rebuilt kernel and world, nor do I
intend to for the moment. I'm happy to stick with generic.
By using the RELENG_9 tag, you're tracking the STABLE development 
branch. By pulling in the sources for the STABLE development branch and 
rebuilding the kernel and the world by following the instructions given 
in the Handbook, you are sticking with the GENERIC kernel configuration, 
unless you build a custom kernel.


I'm still slightly confused by this tag stuff though; sorry (despite
perusal of the handbook). Are you saying that until RELENG_9_1 is made
available I won't be able to compile kernel modules? Or that I should
have a different tag in my standard-supfile?
That's right. RELENG_9_1 isn't available yet. The options available to 
you now, as far as I can tell, are:


(1). Do not recompile the kernel and the world, if you want to track 
9.1-RC, to be followed by RELENG_9_1, once it becomes available. You may 
use freebsd-update(8), to keep the system up-to-date by way of binary 
updates. Once release 9.1 is out, you may change RELENG_9 in your 
sup-file to RELENG_9_1, and then you'll be tracking the release branch 
and you'll be able to keep the kernel and the world up-to-date by way of 
source updates. Use pkg_add(1) to install VBox.


(2). Stick with RELENG_9, which is the STABLE development branch. Pull 
in the latest sources. Rebuild the kernel and the world. You may be 
prompted to rebuild the ports installed on your system as well. Use 
pkg_add(1) or the ports to install software.


If any one else on the list thinks otherwise, as they are more 
experienced folk on the list than I, I'd be happy to stand corrected.


Hope the above helps.

Alexander Kapshuk.


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Re: Wrong version of sources?

2012-09-01 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


On 09/02/2012 03:21 AM, Walter Hurry wrote:

My standard-
supfile (copied from examples with only the default host changed) says
'tag=RELENG_9'.
   

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html
RELENG_9
The line of development for FreeBSD-9.X, also known as FreeBSD 9-STABLE

You're running 9.1-RC1, which doesn't have the RELENG_9_1 tag available 
yet, as this is a release candidate. Thus the trouble when compiling 
VBox from sources.


Have you rebuilt your kernel and the world once you'd pulled in the 
sources for RELENG_9?


Anyway, that's my take on it.

Alexander Kapshuk.

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re: /root/bin and /usr/local/i386-portbld-freebsd9.0

I've found the two directories below on my system. I don't remember 
creating them. So I'd like to be able to find out what package(s) 
has/have created them, if possible.


# ls -ld /root/bin/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Aug 29 22:52 /root/bin/
# ls -Rl /root/bin/
total 0

# ls -dl /usr/local/i386-portbld-freebsd9.0
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel  512 Jul  8 22:32 
/usr/local/i386-portbld-freebsd9.0


# ls -Rl /usr/local/i386-portbld-freebsd9.0
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Jul  8 22:32 bin
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Jul  8 22:32 lib

/usr/local/i386-portbld-freebsd9.0/bin:
total 10816
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   604172 Jul  8 22:32 ar
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  1036440 Jul  8 22:32 as
-r-xr-xr-x  4 root  wheel   879860 Jul  8 22:32 ld
-r-xr-xr-x  4 root  wheel   879860 Jul  8 22:32 ld.bfd
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  3463684 Jul  8 22:32 ld.gold
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   587808 Jul  8 22:32 nm
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   733004 Jul  8 22:32 objcopy
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  1098644 Jul  8 22:32 objdump
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   604172 Jul  8 22:32 ranlib
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   733004 Jul  8 22:32 strip

/usr/local/i386-portbld-freebsd9.0/lib:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  1024 Jul  8 22:32 ldscripts

/usr/local/i386-portbld-freebsd9.0/lib/ldscripts:
total 228
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7375 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386.x
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7158 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386.xbn
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7188 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386.xc
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7303 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386.xd
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7133 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386.xdc
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7123 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386.xdw
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7375 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386.xn
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  4658 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386.xr
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  6897 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386.xs
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  6727 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386.xsc
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  6717 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386.xsw
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  4704 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386.xu
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7178 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386.xw
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7476 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386_fbsd.x
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7259 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386_fbsd.xbn
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7289 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386_fbsd.xc
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7404 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386_fbsd.xd
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7234 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386_fbsd.xdc
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7224 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386_fbsd.xdw
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7476 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386_fbsd.xn
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  4682 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386_fbsd.xr
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  6998 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386_fbsd.xs
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  6828 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386_fbsd.xsc
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  6818 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386_fbsd.xsw
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  4728 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386_fbsd.xu
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7279 Jul  8 22:32 elf_i386_fbsd.xw
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   838 Jul  8 22:32 i386bsd.x
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   849 Jul  8 22:32 i386bsd.xbn
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   843 Jul  8 22:32 i386bsd.xn
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   642 Jul  8 22:32 i386bsd.xr
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   682 Jul  8 22:32 i386bsd.xu

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Alexander Kapshuk.

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Re: /root/bin and /usr/local/i386-portbld-freebsd9.0


On 08/31/12 22:26, lokada...@gmx.de wrote:
Which program do you use to upgrade/ build ports? 

portupgrade.

I had a look at the link you'd included in your previous email. I'm 
still unclear as to where the two directories came from.


Thanks.

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Re: /root/bin and /usr/local/i386-portbld-freebsd9.0


On 08/31/12 22:41, lokada...@gmx.de wrote:

I think it comes from portupgrade.
I use portmaster, but when i look at google, i found some thinks with 
portupgrade and portbld.

I think, portbld is building for some ports, but on different places.

Kick it (or rename it), look that all ok and make a upgrade, if 
available.

If one port need it, it will create it.

Understood. Thanks.

Any ideas about /root/bin?

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Re: /root/bin and /usr/local/i386-portbld-freebsd9.0


On 08/31/2012 11:10 PM, lokada...@gmx.de wrote:

Not really. It looks like an error like my tool [.
I get this after i would go to head (in february?) and get back this 
linking.


No chance to get of it. Every new buildworld will look for it. :( 
No worries. I didn't think it was there when I first installed the 
system. So I thought I'd ask. /root/bin/ does seem to be defined in the 
$PATH environment variable for the root user account in both .cshrc and 
.profile.


Thanks for your prompt response.

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re: built-in mic configuration [compaq presario laptop]

2012-08-25 Thread Alexander Kapshuk

I would like to be able to use the built-in mic to record audio and to 
use Skype with. An external mic seems to work out-of-the-box.


Any input would be appreciated.

:; uname -a
FreeBSD box2 9.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Aug 17 
21:53:39 EEST 2012 root@box2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


:; dmesg | grep pcm
pcm0: HDA IDT 92HD75B3 PCM #0 Analog at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0
pcm1: HDA NVidia (Unknown) PCM #0 Digital at cad 2 nid 1 on hdac0


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Re: built-in mic configuration [compaq presario laptop]

2012-08-25 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


On 08/25/12 19:26, Waitman Gobble wrote:

you need to specify the device, take a look at

# ls /dev/dsp*
/dev/dsp0.0/dev/dsp0.1/dev/dsp1.0/dev/dsp2.0 /dev/dsp2.1

for example, i can send audio output to headphone jack:
# mplayer -zoom -x 1280 -y 720 -fs -ao oss:/dev/dsp1 -mixer 
/dev/mixer2 /path/to/file


Haven't tried skype on FreeBSD but there should be a device setting. 
I've noticed that some machines seem to automatically switch, ie when 
I plug in headphones to the headphone jack or a mic into a microphone 
jack it just works. But other machines don't work automatically and 
I have to set the device manually as above. A simple way, you can try 
setting each device to see which one works. :)



# cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)
Installed devices:
pcm0: ATI R6xx (HDMI) (play)
pcm1: IDT 92HD81B1X (Analog 2.0+HP/2.0) (play/rec) default
pcm2: IDT 92HD81B1X (Analog Mic) (rec)

# mixer
Mixer vol  is currently set to  90:90
Mixer pcm  is currently set to  85:85
Mixer speaker  is currently set to 100:100
Mixer mic  is currently set to  67:67
Mixer mix  is currently set to   1:1
Mixer rec  is currently set to   1:1
Mixer ogainis currently set to 100:100
Recording source: mic

OK. Thanks.

I'll give that a try.

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Re: built-in mic configuration [compaq presario laptop]

2012-08-25 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


On 08/25/2012 09:50 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:

For tests you might even record and playback the recorded with, for
example:

# dd if=/dev/dsp0 of=/tmp/recorded
# cat /tmp/recorded  /dev/dsp0

   

Thanks. I'll fiddle with that.

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re: adding Mercurial CA Certificates

2012-08-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk

How do I add an CA Certificate for Mercurial on FreeBSD please?

:; uname -a
FreeBSD box2 9.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Aug 17 21:53:39
EEST 2012 root@box2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

:; pkg_info -xc mercurial | sed 1q
Information for mercurial-2.3:

Thanks.
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Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


On 07/19/12 09:41, Vaclav Kadlcik wrote:

Hi,

since there has been various issues building LibreOffice from
ports lately and not everyone can or wants follow all the patches
flying around, I'd like to share that the Linux binary build runs
fine for me.

I downloaded Linux' x86 tar package, did tar xf to get RPMs
and finally:
   for i in *rpm; do rpm2cpio $i | cpio -ivd; done
That created opt/libreoffice3.5. You can move where you like
and start it using libreoffice3.5/program/soffice.

(I'm tracking 9-STABLE with Linux compatibility enabled it this
matters.)

May this help someone lazy or impatient like me...
Oli
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libreoffice-3.5.5
Just upgraded libreoffice to version 3.5.5 using ports. Didn't have any 
trouble installing is, nor upgrading it.


:; uname -a
FreeBSD box2 9.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Jun 12 
01:47:53 UTC 2012 
r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


:; pkg_info -x libreoffice
Information for libreoffice-3.5.5

What sort of errors did you encounter while building the package using 
the ports?


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Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


On 07/19/12 15:46, Robert Huff wrote:
Check the last few weeks of office@ and ports@; there are multiple 
people (including me) reporting problems, especially with 9.recent and 
-Current. Robert Huff 


Could be because I'm running the RELEASE version then.

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re: Patch failed to apply cleanly [chromium-20.0.1132.57] FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

2012-07-12 Thread Alexander Kapshuk

When attempting to upgrade chromium-19.0.1084.56_1 to 
chromium-20.0.1132.57 on FreeBSD9.0 (FreeBSD box2 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 
9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan  3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 
r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386), one of 
the patches failed to apply:

--
===  Applying extra patch /usr/ports/www/chromium/files/extra-patch-gcc
===  Applying FreeBSD patches for chromium-20.0.1132.57
patch:  malformed patch at line 15:  #if PLATFORM(CHROMIUM)
= Patch patch-third_party__WebKit__Source__WebCore__config.h failed to 
apply cleanly.

--
There seems to be a patch available that has been reported as having 
worked on a 9.0-RELEASE/amd64:

http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-chromium@freebsd.org/msg00340.html
-
www/chromium/files/patch-third_party__WebKit__Source__WebCore__config.h.orig 


2012-07-12 09:19:26.0 +
+++ www/chromium/files/patch-third_party__WebKit__Source__WebCore__config.h
2012-07-12 10:49:20.0 +
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 third_party/WebKit/Source/WebCore/config.h.orig2012-05-30
10:05:35.0 +0300
-+++ third_party/WebKit/Source/WebCore/config.h 2012-06-05 
22:32:48.0

+0300
-@@ -127,6 +127,11 @@
+--- third_party/WebKit/Source/WebCore/config.h.orig2012-07-10
07:52:48.0 +
 third_party/WebKit/Source/WebCore/config.h 2012-07-12 
10:48:15.0

+
+@@ -127,6 +127,14 @@
  #define WTF_USE_NEW_THEME 1
  #endif // PLATFORM(MAC)
-
Is there a patch available to an x86 based system?

Thanks.

Alexander Kapshuk.

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Re: order of source_dirs in cp(1)

2012-04-07 Thread Alexander Best

On Thu Apr  5 12, Matthias Apitz wrote:
 
 Hello,
 
 I was doing
 
 $ cp -Rv 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2 /mnt/osm
 
 and was surprised seeing that source_dir 17 was done before 16; the man
 page does not specify the order, but I was thinking it just goes through
 the list in the given order...
 
 Why this is done this way?

i can't remember the reason, but the question has been raised quite often.
try searching the archives. i think it had something to do with performance
or getting better disk locality, but i'm not sure. however people were argueing
whether copying the files in reverse order is really a benefit or not.

cheers.
alex

 
 Thanks
 
   matthias
 -- 
 Matthias Apitz
 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/
 UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370)
 UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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Re: question regarding geom labels

2012-04-06 Thread Alexander Best

On Fri Mar 30 12, Warren Block wrote:
 On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Alexander Best wrote:
 
 i have a question regarding a label for a swap partition. when should i do 
 the
 labeling? after or before creating the partition scheme?
 
 when i label before creating the partition scheme, likes this:
 
 glabel label -v swap /dev/da0
 gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0
 
 i get the following warning:
 
 GEOM: da1: the secondary GPT header is not in the last LBA.
 
 which is obvious, because the label is being written into the last LBA and 
 thus
 the backup GPT header gets written into the last-1 LBA.
 
 Right.  Don't do that, the GPT backup header needs to be at the end of 
 the physical device.  If you're using that whole disk for swap, there's 
 no need for a partition anyway.
 
 if i create the partitioning scheme before labeling the device, like this:
 
 gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0
 glabel label -v swap /dev/da0
 
 or
 
 gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0
 gpart add -t freebsd-swap /dev/da0
 glabel label -v swap /dev/da0p1
 
 the label gets written into da0 or da0p1 and is at constant risk of being
 overwritten by userdata.
 
 No.  The swap device entered in /etc/fstab would be /dev/label/swap, 
 which is one block smaller than da0p1.  That's the last-block metadata, 
 it's safe.

thanks for the info. :)

 
 But if the whole disk is for swap, skip the partitioning entirely.
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question regarding geom labels

2012-03-30 Thread Alexander Best

hi there,

i have a question regarding a label for a swap partition. when should i do the
labeling? after or before creating the partition scheme?

when i label before creating the partition scheme, likes this:

glabel label -v swap /dev/da0
gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0

i get the following warning:

GEOM: da1: the secondary GPT header is not in the last LBA.

which is obvious, because the label is being written into the last LBA and thus
the backup GPT header gets written into the last-1 LBA.

if i create the partitioning scheme before labeling the device, like this:

gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0
glabel label -v swap /dev/da0

or

gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0
gpart add -t freebsd-swap /dev/da0
glabel label -v swap /dev/da0p1

the label gets written into da0 or da0p1 and is at constant risk of being
overwritten by userdata.

cheers.
alex
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issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Best

hi there,

maybe i'm missing something obvious, but i don't quite understand the following
top(1) output:

last pid: 13875;  load averages:  0.73,  0.75,  0.68
65 processes:  2 running, 62 sleeping, 1 waiting
CPU 0: 19.5% user,  0.0% nice, 13.3% system,  0.0% interrupt, 67.2% idle
CPU 1: 20.3% user,  0.0% nice,  7.8% system,  0.0% interrupt, 71.9% idle
Mem: 1365M Active, 185M Inact, 323M Wired, 69M Cache, 213M Buf, 32M Free
Swap: 10G Total, 2494M Used, 7746M Free, 24% Inuse, 4K In

  PIDUIDTHR PRI NICE   SIZERES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
 6913   1001 32  200  4252M  1312M uwait   0  18.3H 39.06% 
/usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/bin/java -Xmx512m -jar JDownloade

...how can the size of the resident memory of pid 6913 be  512 megabytes?


this is wth a very recent HEAD on amd64.

cheers.
alex

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Re: issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Best

On Sun Jan 29 12, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
 Le Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:34:11 +,
 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org a écrit :
 
  hi there,
 
 Hello,
 
  maybe i'm missing something obvious, but i don't quite understand the
  following top(1) output:
  
  last pid: 13875;  load averages:  0.73,  0.75,  0.68
  65 processes:  2 running, 62 sleeping, 1 waiting
  CPU 0: 19.5% user,  0.0% nice, 13.3% system,  0.0% interrupt, 67.2%
  idle CPU 1: 20.3% user,  0.0% nice,  7.8% system,  0.0% interrupt,
  71.9% idle Mem: 1365M Active, 185M Inact, 323M Wired, 69M Cache, 213M
  Buf, 32M Free Swap: 10G Total, 2494M Used, 7746M Free, 24% Inuse, 4K
  In
  
PIDUIDTHR PRI NICE   SIZERES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU
  COMMAND 6913   1001 32  200  4252M  1312M uwait   0  18.3H
  39.06% /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/bin/java -Xmx512m -jar JDownloade
  
  ...how can the size of the resident memory of pid 6913 be  512
  megabytes?
 
 I don't know but you can inspect the java application with the java
 console (jconsole). There are several stats on memory usage.

jconsole doesn't seem to work for me. all i get is a blank white X window. :(

cheers.
alex

 
 With JDownloader (doing nothing), I see 57 MB of non heap memory
 usage, and only 30 MB of heap memory.
 
 Regards.
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Re: nss_ldap and the linuxulator

2012-01-03 Thread Alexander Leidinger

Hi,

if you look at the message of the linux base port, you will see that this part 
is discussed there.

FreeBSD does not come with ldap by default, so does the linux base port. So far 
nobody complained loudly about the lack of a nss ldap port for the linuxulator, 
and nobody felt the pressure to create such a port and talk about it on the 
emulation list. Anyone who uses ldap in the linuxulator is free to create a 
corresponding port, quesions in case of problems creating such a port can be 
asked on the emulation mailinglist.

Bye,
Alexander.

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Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:59:57 +1000
From: Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: nss_ldap and the linuxulator

I've just run into this snag again which I've resolved back in 7.x/8.1: 
the linuxulator cannot handle nss lookups from ldap. I ran a search for 
nss_ldap fedora 10 and simply extracted from the rpm the 
libnss_ldap*.so* in the usr/lib into the corresponding directory under 
/compat/linux.

One then only has to copy or setup the ldap.conf in /compat/linux/etc/ 
and change /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf so the it will check files 
and ldap as in the base.

It works a charm when you have issues like the missus with acroread and 
others not working inexplicably. Run acroread from the command line will 
give you the clue: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id. This 
solution does fix this categorically.

I hope this helps others, but I do have one question: why isn't this 
included in the ports already?

I still haven't yet figured out cups and printer selection yet, but I 
have made some progress... :)

Cheers
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Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk

you may want to look up this section of the handbook:
Chapter 5 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports

How to upgrade your applications is explained there;

long story short, there are three utilities i know of that may be used to
keep your applications up-to-date irrespective of the installation method;
they are portupgrade, portmanager and portmaster;
i personally use portupgrade; with this tool you may specify whether you
want you applications updated in the binary or in the source form;

hope this helps;

sasha

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Allen unix.hac...@comcast.net wrote:

 Hi,

 I've been trying to find info about this, so I'm Hoping someone here
 will know about this; I use FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and basically, the
 normal way I do things, is like this:

 I grab the CD, boot, and install the Base System. Once I've booted, I'll
 then use one of the two:

 pkg_add -r bunch of packages

 or

 sysinstall  Configure  Packages

 Then I go through the menus, and select what software I want, and,
 eventually, I'll tell it to start installing.

 Now, I've been reading about Ports more and more, and thought about
 maybe just using those instead, but even with upgrade_pkg from
 bsdaminscripts, I just can NOT seem to upgrade anything.

 I'd like to have my system fully patched, but most of the data I find,
 is about how to keep ports up to date, and has very little on Packages /
 Binaries.

 I don't think it matters much why I choose Binary Packages over Ports,
 I'm just looking to make sure the emails I get every once in a while on
 the root account will FINALLY not have a huge list of stuff that I need
 to either delete / uninstall, or upgrade and have no idea how.

 I mainly used Linux, so I AM a little more used to everything being
 patched at once, like Slackware, where you can type one command and
 install patches and stuff to everything you have installed, be it the
 Kernel, or an Xterm, or X itself, or Pidgin.

 Any of you that use pkg_add and Sysinstall to install packages, can you
 maybe describe what you do to install updates, Patches, or just in
 general, keep your system patched?

 I'd really appreciate that.

 -Allen
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Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Allen unix.hac...@comcast.net wrote:

 On 12/20/2011 4:19 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
  you may want to look up this section of the handbook:
  Chapter 5 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports
 
  How to upgrade your applications is explained there;

 I actually am doing so right now. I started cleaning out the CPU cooling
 system on my old test machine, and after getting crap out of the Fan, I
 got it to boot, and started installing FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE on it, then
 did a Net Install over FTP.

 While I let that run, I decided to start looking at the web site for
 FreeBSD, and reading up on Ports. I guess I'm on the right track, as you
 pretty much told me to do exactly what I was already doing right before
 checking my Email, so that's a great sign.

  long story short, there are three utilities i know of that may be used
  to keep your applications up-to-date irrespective of the installation
  method; they are portupgrade, portmanager and portmaster;
  i personally use portupgrade; with this tool you may specify whether you
  want you applications updated in the binary or in the source form;

 I'm currently reading about Portmanager, because I like the simple
 portmanager -u option I see. I'm going to probably try that one out
 first to see how it goes. Right now the machine is running portsnap
 fetch  portsnap extract  portsnap update

 Once that's done I'm going to start installing some stuff on it to try
 out. Hopefully FVWM2 works out; For some reason, my other FreeBSD
 install says it's installed but I can't use it. I'm probably going to
 just reinstall it because I LOVE it. I've been using Window Maker and
 Enlightenment mostly.

  hope this helps;
 
  sasha

 Thanks,

 -Allen


about FVWM2 not working on your other FreeBSD install...
i'm not sure how you set up your X11 system and your window manager, but
this section of the handbook, Chapter 6 The X Window System, has
instructions for setting up a desktop environment as well as a window
manager of your choice; it's a matter of specifying the path to the
executable for your window manager either in $HOME/.xsession or
in $HOME/.xinitrc depending on whether you use XDM or some other display
manager;

sasha
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Re: Setenv PACKAGESITE thepathtoftp, in boot time how to do it?

2011-11-30 Thread Alexander Kapshuk

you may want to define the PACKAGESITE variable in the .cshrc file in your
$HOME;


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Edgar Rodolfo cybernaut...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi guys, currently i have a machine with freebsd 9 rc2, for default
 when i try to use pkg_add -r wget, for example, i can not install
 because the path is
 freebsd# pkg_add -r xscreensaver
 Error: Unable to get

 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-current/Latest/xscreensaver.tbz
 :
 File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
 pkg_add: unable to fetch
 '
 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-current/Latest/xscreensaver.tbz
 '
 by URL

 but i put :
 freebsd# setenv PACKAGESITE
 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/Latest/

 freebsd# pkg_add -r xscreensaver
 Fetching

 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/Latest/xscreensaver.tbz.
 ..
 Done.

 it works, pero i want to use for default, without put again it, when
 the machine reboot
 and i want to use again pkg i am puting the path manually :(, what is
 the file when i should put the path? to use pkg_add -r package?,
 without put again PACKAGESITE?, thank in advance!


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Re: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-25 Thread Alexander Best

On Fri Nov 25 11, Thomas Mueller wrote:
 from b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com:
 
  If you are going to build most of the modules, but only want to
  exclude a few, then add the directories of the modules to be excluded
  (relative to /usr/src/sys/modules) to WITHOUT_MODULES, for example in
  /etc/make.conf. If you are only going to build a few modules, and want
  to exclude the majority of the modules, then add the directories of
  the modules that are to be built to MODULES_OVERRIDE.  For no modules
  at all, set NO_MODULES.  See /usr/src/sys/modules/Makefile and
  /usr/src/sys/conf/kern.post.mk for details. You may also save some
  time by using one of your faster machines to build the OS for the
  slower machines.
 
 Suppose you want to build more than one kernel so as to be able to choose at 
 boot time.
 
 Then you might not want to build modules redundantly.  So how would you make 
 the modules from /boot/kernel accessible when booting /boot/kernel2?

irrc there was a patch posted on some of the mailinglists not a long time ago,
which added support for building only those modules, which aren't part of the
kernel. this might be a good alternative, if you want a small footprint, but
want to take advantage of all the freebsd kernel drivers/etc.

cheers.
alex

 
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re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.0-RC2: incorrect hash error [SOLVED]

2011-11-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


i'd like to call off my call for help with the problem reported below.

i was able to upgrade to 9.0-RC2 today without any trouble.

my internet connection got cut off temporarily as i was pulling the 
files. some of the files might have got corrupted or something.


 Original Message 
Subject:re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.0-RC2: incorrect hash error
Date:   Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:57:50 +0200
From:   Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org



when performing a binary upgrade from 9.0-RC1 to 9.0-RC2 by following
the instructions found here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-November/029373.html

i've had this error:

Applying patches... done.
Fetching 5612 files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
137c71ff94c207e764b910e3b7dca9a4fe282e43104bdeb18af4377014033116 has
incorrect hash.

has anyone else has this error?

what can be done to fix it?

:; uname -a
FreeBSD localhost 9.0-RC1 FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 #0: Tue Oct 18 18:30:38 UTC
2011 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


thanks.

sasha kapshuk



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Re: Problem with X

2011-11-06 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


On 11/06/2011 06:42 PM, Zantgo wrote:

The synaptics mouse and the keyboard not found when I tap startx in my user, 
this is the mensaje:

xauth: file /home/user/.Xauthority does not 
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did you put this in your /etc/rc.conf:

hald_enable=YES
dbus_enable=YES

see 6.4.2 Configuring X11 of the handbook, 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html, 
for details.


sasha

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Re: Problem with X

2011-11-06 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


On 11/06/2011 07:36 PM, Zantgo wrote:


El 06-11-2011, a las 14:31, Alexander Kapshukalexander.kaps...@gmail.com  
escribió:

   

On 11/06/2011 06:42 PM, Zantgo wrote:
 

The synaptics mouse and the keyboard not found when I tap startx in my user, 
this is the mensaje:

xauth: file /home/user/.Xauthority does not 
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did you put this in your /etc/rc.conf:

hald_enable=YES
dbus_enable=YES
 

Yes but does not yet work
   

see 6.4.2 Configuring X11 of the handbook, 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html, for 
details.

sasha

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did you restart 'hald' and 'dbus' after putting

hald_enable=YES
dbus_enable=YES


in your /etc/rc.conf?


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Re: trouble setting timezone for ukraine

2011-11-05 Thread Alexander Kapshuk

On 11/05/11 00:55, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

Alexander Kapshukalexander.kaps...@gmail.com writes:

On 11/04/11 22:46, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

Alexander Kapshukalexander.kaps...@gmail.com writes:

the actual current time is 10.21 pm.

Your system's clock may be off as well...

any idea when an updated time zone file will become available?

It's already in the FreeBSD tree:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/contrib/tzdata/europe?rev=1.7.2.2;content-type=text%2Fplain

To install it, you'll need something like
# zic europe
(where europe is the file from the URL above)
and then tzsetup(8) should install the correct information.

Or you could update your system to anything after October 26.

thanks.

here's what i did based on my understanding of the instructions given above:
# cd $HOME
# fetch -o europe
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/contrib/tzdata/europe?rev=1.7.2.2;content-type=text%2Fplain
# zic europe
# tzsetup -r

:; date
Sat Nov 5 00:54:32 EET 2011

the timezone did change from 'FET' to 'EET', but the time is still
wrong by being 1 hour ahead of the actual ukraine time.

another thing i tried, which didn't seem to help was set these
environment variables in my /etc/rc.conf:
(as suggested here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10276
[post # 6])

ntpdate_enable=YES
ntpdate_flags=-u -b
ntpdate_hosts=ua.pool.ntp.org

That will only do anything at startup.
To do the same thing without needing to reboot, the command line would be
# ntpdate -u -b ua.pool.ntp.org

i must be doing something wrong. just don't know what is it.

can anyone please suggest what it is i should be doing?

Well, start with what I suggested a while back: try date -u
and see whether that is the correct UTC time. If not, the ntpdate
command will solve you problems. If it is, there's still something else
wrong.

thanks for your replies.

running 'date -u' indicated that the system clock on my machine was out
of sync as well.

running 'ntpdate -u -b ua.pool.ntp.org' set both the system clock and
the local time to the right time.

:; date -u
Sat Nov 5 07:24:23 UTC 2011
:; date
Sat Nov 5 09:24:26 EET 2011

then i read somewhere that 'ntpdate' is bound to become deprecated at
some stage. it was suggested that 'ntpd' be used instead. so i removed
the 'ntpdate' variables from my '/etc/rc.conf' and replaced them with:

:; grep ntpd /etc/rc.conf
ntpd_enable=YES
ntpd_sync_on_start=YES

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-ntp.html talks about
modifying the '/etc/ntp.conf' file by adding information on what servers
to use. it also said that 'By default, your NTP server will be
accessible to all hosts on the Internet. The restrict option in
/etc/ntp.conf allows you to control which machines can access your server'

i'm not sure i clearly understand what has to be done to make the ntp
server on my system to be inaccessible to anyone but me.

a sample /etc/ntp.conf would be appreciated.

thanks.

sasha

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Re: trouble setting timezone for ukraine

2011-11-05 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


On 11/05/11 10:06, Matthew Seaman wrote:

On 05/11/2011 07:48, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:

i'm not sure i clearly understand what has to be done to make the ntp
server on my system to be inaccessible to anyone but me.

a sample /etc/ntp.conf would be appreciated.


You need the 'restrict' keyword to control access to ntpd -- add a block
something like this to the beginning of ntp.conf:

restrict default nomodify nopeer noquery notrap   # everyone can go away...
restrict -6 default nomodify nopeer noquery notrap
restrict 127.0.0.1   # except me ...
restrict -6 ::1
restrict 81.187.76.160 mask 255.255.255.248 nomodify notrap nopeer # or
the local net
restrict -6 2001:8b0:151:1:: mask ::::: nomodify notrap
nopeer

Except, obviously, replace the network addresses and netmasks in the
last two lines with appropriate settings for your environment.  See
ntp.conf(5).  Note these restrictions apply to outgoing as well as
incoming queries, so you can block your own access to NTP servers on the
net if not careful.

Cheers,

Matthew



understood. thanks.

sasha

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Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Alexander Best

On Sat Nov  5 11, Robert Simmons wrote:
 Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working
 before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address?
 
 After setting ntpdate_enable=YES in rc.conf, I get the following
 error on boot:
 
 Setting date via ntp.
 Error : hostname nor servname provided, or not known
  5 Nov 17:11:05
 ntpdate[786]: can't find host 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.org
 
 Error : hostname nor servname provided, or not known
  5 Nov 17:11:05
 ntpdate[786]: can't find host 1.freebsd.pool.ntp.org
 
 Error : hostname nor servname provided, or not known
  5 Nov 17:11:05
 ntpdate[786]: can't find host 2.freebsd.pool.ntp.org
 
  5 Nov 17:11:05
 ntpdate[786]: no servers can be used, exiting
 
 I've had this problem with machines using DHCP and the solution was to
 use SYNCDHCP rather than DHCP in rc.conf.  However, this box is using
 a static IP address.  But the problem seems to be similar.

same here. simply add something like the following to your crontab:

0   10  *   *   */2 /etc/rc.d/ntpdate onestart

cheers.
alex

 
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re: trouble setting timezone for ukraine

2011-11-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk

i'm based in ukraine. on 29 Oct 2011 ukraine went to winter time, i.e. 
we put our clocks one hour back.


the current time in ukraine is 8.49 pm; the output of 'date' is:

:; date
Fri Nov  4 22:49:48 FET 2011

i tried resetting my timezone via 'sysinstall', but to no avail.

do i use 'date' to set my system time to the right time, or is there a 
better way of doing it?


:; uname -a
FreeBSD localhost 9.0-RC1 FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 #0: Tue Oct 18 18:30:38 UTC 
2011 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


thanks.

sasha.


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Re: trouble setting timezone for ukraine

2011-11-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk

On 11/04/11 22:15, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
 Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net writes:

 В Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:43:57 -0400
 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org пишет:

 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com writes:

 i'm based in ukraine. on 29 Oct 2011 ukraine went to winter time,
 i.e. we put our clocks one hour back.

 the current time in ukraine is 8.49 pm; the output of 'date' is:

 :; date
 Fri Nov  4 22:49:48 FET 2011

 i tried resetting my timezone via 'sysinstall', but to no avail.

 do i use 'date' to set my system time to the right time, or is
 there a better way of doing it?

 :; uname -a
 FreeBSD localhost 9.0-RC1 FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 #0: Tue Oct 18 18:30:38
 UTC 2011
 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
 I think that your government changed its mind about staying on
 standard time this year, but only did so at the last minute.  So you
 probably have an outdated timezone file.  That would lead the
 computer to be one hour late rather than two, but it's probably a
 change you need to make.  Also check the system's time in UTC to see
 whether the clock itself is off.
 run tzsetup...
 He already did that, using sysinstall.  You can tell that he did it
 correctly because his date(1) output says FET which is the correct
 time zone for him.  His time zone file is, almost certainly, too old,
 and will remain so no matter how many times he reinstalls it.  I think
 the decision to change the rules was only made about two weeks ago, and
 the updated time zone file couldn't have been available until after
 that.  I believe the updated tzdata files were brought into the tree on
 October 25.

thank you all for replying to my email.

here's what i tried after reading your replies:

tzsetup /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Kiev
tzsetup -r

didn't help. i believe that sysinstall calls tzsetup as well, but i
thought i'd try Ivan's suggestion anyway.

here's the output of 'date' i get now:

Sat Nov 5 00:21:52 FET 2011

the actual current time is 10.21 pm.

any idea when an updated time zone file will become available?

thanks.

sasha

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Re: trouble setting timezone for ukraine

2011-11-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk

On 11/04/11 22:46, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

Alexander Kapshukalexander.kaps...@gmail.com writes:

the actual current time is 10.21 pm.

Your system's clock may be off as well...

any idea when an updated time zone file will become available?

It's already in the FreeBSD tree:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/contrib/tzdata/europe?rev=1.7.2.2;content-type=text%2Fplain

To install it, you'll need something like
# zic europe
(where europe is the file from the URL above)
and then tzsetup(8) should install the correct information.

Or you could update your system to anything after October 26.

thanks.

# zic europe
# tzsetup -r

:; date
Sat Nov 5 00:54:32 EET 2011

the timezone did change from 'FET' to 'EET', but the time is still wrong
by being 1 hour ahead of the actual ukraine time.

another thing i tried, which didn't seem to help was set these
environment variables in my /etc/rc.conf:
(as suggested here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10276
[post # 6])

ntpdate_enable=YES
ntpdate_flags=-u -b
ntpdate_hosts=ua.pool.ntp.org

i must be doing something wrong. just don't know what is it.

can anyone please suggest what it is i should be doing?

thanks.

sasha

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question regarding style(9) and field initialisers in structs

2011-10-30 Thread Alexander Best

hi there,

i found hundreds of the following cases in the FreeBSD src:

[...]
struct periph_driver {
periph_init_func_t  init;
char*driver_name;
TAILQ_HEAD(,cam_periph) units;
u_int   generation;
u_int   flags;
#define CAM_PERIPH_DRV_EARLY0x01
};
[...]
static struct periph_driver dadriver =
{
dainit, da,
TAILQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(dadriver.units), /* generation */ 0
};

...is it proper programming practice to forget about the last field, if it
would have been initialised to 0?

cheers.
alex
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Fwd: re: thefish-0.6.6_5 is marked as broken: does not build [FreeBSD9.0]

2011-10-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk


howdy,

when attempting to build x11/gnome2-power-tools from ports on my 
FreeBSD9.0 desktop, the package failed to build spitting out the error 
message below: gnome2-power-tools-2.32.1_2 depends on executable:


thefish - not found === Verifying install for thefish in 
/usr/ports/sysutils/thefish === thefish-0.6.6_5 is marked as broken: 
does not build. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/thefish. 
*** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-power-tools


:; uname -a FreeBSD localhost 9.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 #0: Sat Sep 24 
20:46:57 UTC 2011 
r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386


is there a fix for this?

thanks.

Alexander Kapshuk
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small du(1) question

2011-10-19 Thread Alexander Best

hi there,

the du(1) man page states the following:


 -B blocksize
 Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks.  This is differ-
 ent from the -k, -m options or setting BLOCKSIZE and gives an
 estimate of how much space the examined file hierarchy would
 require on a filesystem with the given blocksize.  Unless in -A
 mode, blocksize is rounded up to the next multiple of 512.


is this a doc bug, or does du(1) really always assume that every filesystem's
blocksize == 512?

cheers.
alex
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Re: small du(1) question

2011-10-19 Thread Alexander Best

On Wed Oct 19 11, Chuck Swiger wrote:
 On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
  the du(1) man page states the following:
  
  
  -B blocksize
  Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks.  This is 
  differ-
  ent from the -k, -m options or setting BLOCKSIZE and gives an
  estimate of how much space the examined file hierarchy would
  require on a filesystem with the given blocksize.  Unless in -A
  mode, blocksize is rounded up to the next multiple of 512.
  
  
  is this a doc bug, or does du(1) really always assume that every 
  filesystem's
  blocksize == 512?
 
 The default blocksize is 512 bytes.
 
 The -B option flag lets you tell du to assume a different filesystem 
 blocksize.

so when running freebsd on a hdd with a blocksize of 4k, a simple 'du -h' will
always display incorrect results, unless '-B 4096' was also specified? isn't
there a way to automatically query the blocksize of the underlying device,
instead of always asuming the blocksize is 512 byte?

cheers.
alex

 
 Regards,
 -- 
 -Chuck
 
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Re: small du(1) question

2011-10-19 Thread Alexander Best

On Wed Oct 19 11, Alexander Best wrote:
 On Wed Oct 19 11, Chuck Swiger wrote:
  On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
   the du(1) man page states the following:
   
   
   -B blocksize
   Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks.  This is 
   differ-
   ent from the -k, -m options or setting BLOCKSIZE and gives an
   estimate of how much space the examined file hierarchy would
   require on a filesystem with the given blocksize.  Unless in 
   -A
   mode, blocksize is rounded up to the next multiple of 512.
   
   
   is this a doc bug, or does du(1) really always assume that every 
   filesystem's
   blocksize == 512?
  
  The default blocksize is 512 bytes.
  
  The -B option flag lets you tell du to assume a different filesystem 
  blocksize.
 
 so when running freebsd on a hdd with a blocksize of 4k, a simple 'du -h' will
 always display incorrect results, unless '-B 4096' was also specified? isn't
 there a way to automatically query the blocksize of the underlying device,
 instead of always asuming the blocksize is 512 byte?

...also: since -A is supposed to take the actual file size into account and not
the blocksize of the underlying filesystem, shouldn't the output of
'du -A -B4096' and 'du -A' be the same? just tested this on freebsd 7 and
freebsd 10 and the outputs differ.

cheers.
alex

 
 cheers.
 alex
 
  
  Regards,
  -- 
  -Chuck
  
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Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-18 Thread Alexander Best

On Thu Oct 13 11, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org writes:
 
  ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one could 
  do
  'mount -o audiocdfs /dev/cd0 /media/cd' and then all tracks appear as RAW 
  pcm
  audio files. maybe fuse comes with something like this?
 
 
 /dev/acdntm is no longer supported?

nope.

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Re: Can't access a music CD

On Wed Oct 12 11, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
 Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net writes:
 
  Thank You for the replies.  Got the part about not mounting an audio
  CD.  I wasn't trying to.  Inserting the disc in the drive brought up
  the error message.  Mounting a data CD or DVD acts normally and the
  filesystem on it can be accessed.
 
 Okay, so what *are* you you using to try to play the CD?
 Someone suggested cdcontrol, but these days a lot of 
 computers don't come with the cable to get analog audio
 directly off the drive. That's why the FAQ suggests xmcd, 
 although it's far from the only option; most of the big 
 desktop environments come with a CD playing application
 that gets the data digitally.  For example, I think the
 Gnome application is brasero.

i think cdcontrol(1) should be adjusted, so that it supports digital audio CD
playback. actually analog audio hasn't really been supported by mainboard
manufacturers for  10 years. i have a board which comes with an audio
connector, but attaching a cable to it, which is attached to a dvd drive
doesn't work, for whatever reasons. i also believe newer dvd and br sata
devices don't even come with an analog connector nowadays.

another application which supports digitally playing audio cds is mplayer(1)
via 'mplayer cdda:://' or 'mplayer cddb://'.

ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one could do
'mount -o audiocdfs /dev/cd0 /media/cd' and then all tracks appear as RAW pcm
audio files. maybe fuse comes with something like this?

cheers.
alex
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Re: Can't access a music CD

On Thu Oct 13 11, Polytropon wrote:
 On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:25:24 +, Alexander Best wrote:
  ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one could 
  do
  'mount -o audiocdfs /dev/cd0 /media/cd' and then all tracks appear as RAW 
  pcm
  audio files. maybe fuse comes with something like this?
 
 What about /dev/acd0t[01,02,03,...] - aren't those supposed
 to represent the individual audio tracks that could then be
 interpreted as what they basically are, raw pcm (of cd-audio
 specification)?

i inserted an audio cd and they didn't turn up. i guess ATA_CAM doesn't support
individual nodes for tracks.

cheers.
alex

 
 
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Re: Can't access a music CD

On Fri Oct 14 11, Polytropon wrote:
 On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:03:29 +, Alexander Best wrote:
  On Thu Oct 13 11, Polytropon wrote:
   On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:25:24 +, Alexander Best wrote:
ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one 
could do
'mount -o audiocdfs /dev/cd0 /media/cd' and then all tracks appear as 
RAW pcm
audio files. maybe fuse comes with something like this?
   
   What about /dev/acd0t[01,02,03,...] - aren't those supposed
   to represent the individual audio tracks that could then be
   interpreted as what they basically are, raw pcm (of cd-audio
   specification)?
  
  i inserted an audio cd and they didn't turn up. i guess ATA_CAM doesn't 
  support
  individual nodes for tracks.
 
 When using the (now default) CAM methods (ATAPICAM), I think
 this is true.
 
 Example with a regular music CD:
 
 % cdcontrol info
 Starting track = 1, ending track = 19, TOC size = 162 bytes
 track start  duration   block  length   type
 -
 1   0:02.00   2:05.01   09376  audio
 2   2:07.01   1:45.5393767928  audio
 3   3:52.54   2:37.49   17304   11824  audio
 4   6:30.28   1:52.00   291288400  audio
 5   8:22.28   2:08.29   375289629  audio
 6  10:30.57   2:23.01   47157   10726  audio
 7  12:53.58   4:01.01   57883   18076  audio
 8  16:54.59   3:12.37   75959   14437  audio
 9  20:07.21   2:09.00   903969675  audio
10  22:16.21   4:19.67  100071   19492  audio
11  26:36.13   3:28.00  119563   15600  audio
12  30:04.13   3:48.73  135163   17173  audio
13  33:53.11   3:51.38  152336   17363  audio
14  37:44.49   1:27.72  1696996597  audio
15  39:12.46   2:15.15  176296   10140  audio
16  41:27.61   2:35.01  186436   11626  audio
17  44:02.62   2:11.00  1980629825  audio
18  46:13.62   2:37.01  207887   11776  audio
19  48:50.63   2:48.01  219663   12601  audio
   170  51:38.64 -  232264   -  -

cdcontrol info
Starting track = 1, ending track = 9, TOC size = 82 bytes
track start  duration   block  length   type
-
1   0:02.00   5:58.35   0   26885  audio
2   6:00.35   5:06.06   26885   22956  audio
3  11:06.41   5:40.57   49841   25557  audio
4  16:47.23   5:52.37   75398   26437  audio
5  22:39.60   4:14.09  101835   19059  audio
6  26:53.69   5:16.25  120894   23725  audio
7  32:10.19   3:14.54  144619   14604  audio
8  35:24.73   6:24.15  159223   28815  audio
9  41:49.13   6:16.51  188038   28251  audio
  170  48:05.64 -  216289   -  -

 
 % ls /dev/acd0*
 /dev/acd0 /dev/acd0t04  /dev/acd0t08  /dev/acd0t12  /dev/acd0t16
 /dev/acd0t01  /dev/acd0t05  /dev/acd0t09  /dev/acd0t13  /dev/acd0t17
 /dev/acd0t02  /dev/acd0t06  /dev/acd0t10  /dev/acd0t14  /dev/acd0t18
 /dev/acd0t03  /dev/acd0t07  /dev/acd0t11  /dev/acd0t15  /dev/acd0t19

otaku% ls|grep cd
cd0
cdrom

 
 % ls /dev/cd0*
 /dev/cd0
 
 Maybe obtaining a TOC listing of the CD is required to make the
 track files appear? However, they are only present for the ATAPI
 based access (acd0), not for the SCSI CAM based one (cd0).
 
 
 
 
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Re: Can't access a music CD

On Fri Oct 14 11, Polytropon wrote:
 On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:38:45 +, Alexander Best wrote:
  On Fri Oct 14 11, Polytropon wrote:
   % ls /dev/acd0*
   /dev/acd0 /dev/acd0t04  /dev/acd0t08  /dev/acd0t12  /dev/acd0t16
   /dev/acd0t01  /dev/acd0t05  /dev/acd0t09  /dev/acd0t13  /dev/acd0t17
   /dev/acd0t02  /dev/acd0t06  /dev/acd0t10  /dev/acd0t14  /dev/acd0t18
   /dev/acd0t03  /dev/acd0t07  /dev/acd0t11  /dev/acd0t15  /dev/acd0t19
  
  otaku% ls|grep cd
  cd0
  cdrom
 
 % dmesg | grep ^acd
 acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N/RL00 at ata1-master UDMA66 
 acd1: DVDROM HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B/0L30 at ata1-slave UDMA33
 
 Those are parallel ATA drives, accessed by the ATAPI drivers.
 Because I can either access them as ATAPI drives as well as
 SCSI drives, they show up in both subsystems:
 
 % atacontrol list
 ATA channel 1:
 Master: acd0 HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N/RL00 ATA/ATAPI revision 7
 Slave:  acd1 HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B/0L30 ATA/ATAPI revision 6
 
 % camcontrol devlist
 HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N RL00at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,cd0)
 HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0L30   at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,cd1)
 
 In the kernel configuration, I have the following relevant
 settings:
 
 # ATA and ATAPI devices
 device  ata
 device  atadisk # ATA disk drives
 device  ataraid # ATA RAID drives
 device  atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
 device  atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives
 device  atapist # ATAPI tape drives
 options ATA_STATIC_ID   # Static device numbering
 device  atapicam# For SCSI over ATA
 
 # SCSI peripherals
 device  scbus   # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
 device  ch  # SCSI media changers
 device  da  # Direct Access (disks)
 device  sa  # Sequential Access (tape etc)
 device  cd  # CD
 device  pass# Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
 device  ses # SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE)
 options SCSI_DELAY=100  # Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI [5000]
 
 So I can use both /dev/cd0 and /dev/acd0 to access the same
 drive, just are required, e. g. /dev/cd0 (equals /dev/dvd
 for consistency with the growisofs manpage) for burning CDs,
 and /dev/acd0 for audio playback (when accessed with cdcontrol).
 
 OS is x86 v8.2 STABLE of August 2011 with (obviously) custom
 kernel.
 
 If I remember correctly, the cdcontrol utility talks to the
 ATAPI subsystem which now has been melted somehow with the
 ATAPICAM (SCSI) way of accessing devices...

yeah. you have device atapicam in your config, which creates cam emulation
nodes under /dev and enables you to use cam specific software, such as
camcontrol, cdrecord or growisofs.

i'm running freebsd 10 and here the whole ata subsystem was merged into the
cam subsystem. so atacontrol doesn't report anything. so the ata subsystem
has been abandoned in favour of cam. that's why e.g. burncd is now unusable
under freebsd.

cheers.
alex

 
 
 
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Re: problems with IRQ

2011-10-06 Thread Alexander Best

On Thu Oct  6 11, KES wrote:
 system work fine, but systat -v show wrong results in compare with vmstat -i
 seems counter overflow or so..

i'd rather suspect that systat(1) is querying different variables/structures
than vmstat(8). their output is different on my system too and after only a few
hours of uptime and very little interrupts, i would rule out a counter
overflow.

cheers.
alex

 
 systat -v
 2 usersLoad  0.95  1.13  1.15  Oct  6 17:36
 
 Mem:KBREALVIRTUAL   VN PAGER   SWAP PAGER
 Tot   Share  TotShareFree   in   out in   out
 Act  3425966396   813716 9244 1395872  count
 All  527128   10356  300289639336  pages
 Proc:Interrupts
   r   p   d   s   w   Csw  Trp  Sys  Int  Sof  Flt 31 cow254k total
  50  557k 2614  14k 237k 4028  449127 zfodatkbd0 1
 2 ozfod12 ata0 14
  9.1%Sys  21.7%Intr  1.6%User  0.0%Nice 67.6%Idle   1%ozfod  221k ehci0 16
 |||||||||||   daefr 2 ehci1 23
 =++   37 prcfr  4130 
 cpu0:timer
 42 dtbuf  314 totfr 15799 re0 256
 Namei Name-cache   Dir-cache142271 desvn  react  4131 
 cpu1:timer
Callshits   %hits   % 87941 numvn  pdwak  4129 
 cpu3:timer
 61585762  94 35563 frevn  pdpgs  4130 
 cpu2:timer
   intrn
 Disks   ad0   da0 pass0298480 wire
 KB/t  18.79  0.00  0.00193600 act
 tps  12 0 0   2103500 inact
 MB/s   0.22  0.00  0.00  9180 cache
 %busy 0 0 0   1386692 free
 
 
 # vmstat -i
 interrupt  total   rate
 irq1: atkbd02536  0
 irq14: ata0  8516926  9
 irq16: ehci0  2233740154   2585
 irq23: ehci1 2594742  3
 cpu0:timer3562265448   4122
 irq256: re0   2291967374   2652
 cpu1:timer3562481709   4123
 cpu3:timer3479157511   4026
 cpu2:timer3555645238   4115
 Total18696371638  21638
 
 thank you.
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Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-30 Thread Alexander Best

On Thu Sep 29 11, Antonio Olivares wrote:
  try 'sysctl hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0'.
 
 Question,
 
 On one of my home machines, I have mixer pcm  vol set to 100% :
 
 [olivares@tricorehome /usr/home/olivares]$ mixer
 Mixer vol  is currently set to 100:100
 Mixer pcm  is currently set to 100:100
 Mixer line is currently set to  75:75
 Mixer mic  is currently set to   0:0
 Mixer rec  is currently set to  81:81
 Mixer igainis currently set to   0:0
 Mixer ogainis currently set to  50:50
 Mixer monitor  is currently set to  75:75
 Recording source: mic
 
 in /boot/device.hints
 
 hint.pcm.0.vol=100
 hint.pcm.1.vol=100
 hint.pcm.2.vol=100
 
 But when I play with mplayer, the pcm setting is at 48%
 
 I then increase the sound level by using the (*) key to increase it
 and the (/) key to lower it.  I had reason to believe that once I
 would set up the sound using /boot/device.hints, it would be (set in
 stone) forever, but on starting up the system, mplayer puts it back at
 48%.
 
 Will the systcl hw.snd.vpc autoreset=0 command cure this illness as well?
 
 If it does, do I add it to /boot/device.hints?  and it is a done deal!
 or no deal! :(
 
 I have always wanted to ask but was not sure it it was freebsd or
 mplayer's configuration.

try the following:

rm /var/db/mixer*-state
sysctl hw.snd.vpc_reset=1
systcl hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0
echo hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0  /etc/sysctl.conf

cheers.
alex

 
 Regards,
 
 Antonio
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Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-29 Thread Alexander Best

On Thu Sep 29 11, Polytropon wrote:
 Since I've installed OS v8.2 (STABLE of late August), mplayer
 has developed an annoying habit: It accidentally resets its
 volume settings.
 
 I have the following configuration: The vol (master) channel
 of the mixer is controlled by the volume keys on the top right
 of my keyboard (Sun Type 7 USB) by issuing mixer vol +5,
 mixer vol -5 and mixer vol 0 respectively. Worked for
 many years.
 
 When I use the keys 9 and 0 in mplayer, they _should_ modify
 the volume of the pcm channel - at least they did this in
 the previous mplayer 0.9something version I've been using many
 years on on OS v7.
 
 They do - as it seems - now too, but: when I move within
 the movie clip, they reset to some 50% value.
 
 Example: I set the volume slider to this value:
 
   [|||---]
 
 Now I press the left or right arrow key, or the space bar
 twice, then the volume gets up to the 50% value:
 
   [--]
 
 This is ANNOYING.
 
 Does anyone know a solution for this?

try 'sysctl hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0'.

cheers.
alex

 
 I'm using mplayer-1.0.r20110329_3 compiled from ports.
 
 Audio driver is:
   pcm0: HDA VIA VT1708_8 PCM #0 Analog (play/rec) default
   pcm1: HDA VIA VT1708_8 PCM #1 Analog (rec)
   pcm2: HDA VIA VT1708_8 PCM #2 Digital (play)
 
 Strangest thing: I can see values change in the output of
 the mixer command when changing the vol volume, but
 not if I change the volume from inside mplayer.
 
 
 
 NB: The _difference_ between pcm and vol is known to me.
 I _intendedly_ use different setting mechanisms, i. e. vol
 defines the maximum output level transmitted to the amplifier,
 and pcm can be used to change the volume within the range
 from zero up that preset master value. I know that it's
 possible to have the 9/0 keys change the vol (master)
 channel, but that's not intended - nor does it seem to be
 a solution here.
 
 
 
 
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Re: Odd error when doing pkg_version

2011-09-20 Thread Alexander Best

On Tue Sep 20 11, Ron (Lists) wrote:
 Starting a couple of days ago, when I run pkg_version I get the 
 following error:
 
 /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgdbm.so.3 not found, required 
 by httpd
 
 Everything seems to run OK except for this message appearing in the 
 middle of the run.  I've tried to narrow it down with no real luck.
 
 I've tried searching for ports with libgdbm or ld-elf in them and am 
 not finding any (installed or not).
 
 Does anyone know where this is coming from and how to fix it?

maybe

portupgrade -f httpd\*

?

 
 Ron
 
 
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Re: Odd error when doing pkg_version

2011-09-20 Thread Alexander Best

On Tue Sep 20 11, Ron (Lists) wrote:
 Starting a couple of days ago, when I run pkg_version I get the
 following error:
 
 /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgdbm.so.3 not found, 
 required
 by httpd
 
 Everything seems to run OK except for this message appearing in the
 middle of the run.  I've tried to narrow it down with no real luck.
 
 I've tried searching for ports with libgdbm or ld-elf in them and am
 not finding any (installed or not).
 
 Does anyone know where this is coming from and how to fix it?
 
 maybe
 
 portupgrade -f httpd\*
 
 ?
 
 Yeah, I tried looking at that, but I don't have the httpd port 
 installed or any of the other variations of httpd.  Or if I do, it 
 doesn't show up anywhere that I can see.

hmmmno idea then. sorry.
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Re: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

2011-08-14 Thread Alexander Best

On Sun Aug 14 11, Niclas Zeising wrote:
 On 2011-08-13 12:08, Roland Smith wrote:
  On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 09:51:41AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote:
  On 08/13/11 09:26, Roland Smith wrote:
  On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:43:52AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote:
  On 08/12/11 22:54, Roland Smith wrote:
  On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 08:44:07PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote:
  files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz
  Does this file actually exist if you extract the snapshot? And are the
  permissions et cetera OK?
 
  Roland
 
  No, it does not.
 
  What I did so far over night:
 
  I deleted /var/db/portsnap as well as /usr/ports/. Then I tried again. 
  Again failure.
  After that it got the ports tree via CVS (make update in /usr/ports). 
  Everything seems
  all right. I tried portsnap again. portsnap compalins about a 
  non-portsnap-created /usr/ports
  and please me to use 'extract'. I do ... but then I run into the very 
  same failure:
 
  (portsnap fetch extract:)
  /usr/ports/devel//
  /usr/ports/devel/ccdoc/
  /usr/ports/devel/ccrtp/
  /usr/ports/devel/cdash/
  files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz 
  not 
  found -- snapshot corrupt.
  
  I've been looking at the portsnap shellscript. This error message is 
  generated
  by the shell's built-in test command, specifically '[ -r'. It is looking 
  for a
  file that was extracted with tar. So the place to look for the bug is IMO
  
  1) the portsnap script itself (differences between 8.2 and 9?)
  2) the sh(1)'s built-in test command (ditto)
  3) tar (ditto)
  
  When you run 'portsnap fetch' it downloads a tgz archive and unpacks it with
  tar(1). What you could try is to comment out the line 'rm 
  ${SNAPSHOTHASH}.tgz'
  in portsnap, and test if the tgz file extracts differently using an
  8.2-RELEASE tar and the 9-CURRENT tar.  If so, that would be a bug!
  
  Roland
 
 Just a me too!. It happens for me on a recently updated 9-current
 virtual machine, built with clang.

same here:

/usr/ports/databases/gigabase/
/usr/ports/databases/godis/
files/39644d98f9e9b9d9a362cbfc075a996683e8a611a4362d883247c9a2e2fa2658.gz not 
found -- snapshot corrupt.

running r224841 on amd64 built with base clang.

 Regards!
 -- 
 Niclas
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Re: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

2011-08-14 Thread Alexander Best

On Sun Aug 14 11, Olivier Smedts wrote:
2011/8/14 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org:
On Sun Aug 14 11, Niclas Zeising wrote:
On 2011-08-13 12:08, Roland Smith wrote:
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 09:51:41AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote:
On 08/13/11 09:26, Roland Smith wrote:
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:43:52AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote:
On 08/12/11 22:54, Roland Smith wrote:
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 08:44:07PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote:
files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz
Does this file actually exist if you extract the snapshot? And are the
permissions et cetera OK?

Roland

No, it does not.

What I did so far over night:

I deleted /var/db/portsnap as well as /usr/ports/. Then I tried again.
Again failure.
After that it got the ports tree via CVS (make update in /usr/ports).
Everything seems
all right. I tried portsnap again. portsnap compalins about a
non-portsnap-created /usr/ports
and please me to use 'extract'. I do ... but then I run into the very
same failure:

(portsnap fetch extract:)
/usr/ports/devel//
/usr/ports/devel/ccdoc/
/usr/ports/devel/ccrtp/
/usr/ports/devel/cdash/
files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz
not
found -- snapshot corrupt.

I've been looking at the portsnap shellscript. This error message is
generated
by the shell's built-in test command, specifically '[ -r'. It is looking
for a
file that was extracted with tar. So the place to look for the bug is IMO

1) the portsnap script itself (differences between 8.2 and 9?)
2) the sh(1)'s built-in test command (ditto)
3) tar (ditto)

When you run 'portsnap fetch' it downloads a tgz archive and unpacks it
with
tar(1). What you could try is to comment out the line 'rm
${SNAPSHOTHASH}.tgz'
in portsnap, and test if the tgz file extracts differently using an
8.2-RELEASE tar and the 9-CURRENT tar. If so, that would be a bug!

Roland

Just a me too!. It happens for me on a recently updated 9-current
virtual machine, built with clang.

same here:

/usr/ports/databases/gigabase/
/usr/ports/databases/godis/
files/39644d98f9e9b9d9a362cbfc075a996683e8a611a4362d883247c9a2e2fa2658.gz
not found -- snapshot corrupt.

running r224841 on amd64 built with base clang.

Aparently fixed with latest HEAD *kernel* :

# svn log -v -r224842

r224842 | rwatson | 2011-08-13 18:03:40 +0200 (sam 13 aoû 2011) | 10 lignes
Chemins modifiés :
M /head/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c

When falloc() was broken into separate falloc_noinstall() and finstall(),
a bug was introduced in kern_openat() such that the error from the vnode
open operation was overwritten before it was passed as an argument to
dupfdopen(). This broke operations on /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr}. Fix
by preserving the original error number across finstall() so that it is
still available.

Approved by:re (kib)
Reported by:cognet

You won't be able to buildworld with the buggy kernel, but you can
buildkernel and reboot on the new kernel. No problems with portsnap
after that (don't know if you have to clean the old portsnap files, I
did it).

thanks. switching to a newer revision alone didn't solve the issue. however
after doing

rm -r /var/db/portsnap/files/; rm /var/db/portsnap/t*; portsnap fetch update

everything's back to normal. :)

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Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD?

2011-07-22 Thread Alexander Best

On Fri Jul 22 11, C. P. Ghost wrote:
 On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote:
  Hi all
 
  How to sync a file on FreeBSD (esp. on 8.1) to disk?
 
  I used fsync(2), but does not immediately flush to disk.
 
  I want my writing to a file (a log file) immediately available to other 
  users to read.

if you *really* want to see data being written to disk immediately and don't
care about performance, do the following:

1) disable the write cache of your hdd (see ada(4) and ata(4) man pages)

2) mount your partition(s) with '-o sync'

cheers.
alex

 
 It shouldn't matter: as soon as write(2) completes, the
 system-wide file cache -- not the disk -- is updated, and
 other users will transparently read(2) from that cache,
 not from the disk.
 
 What you probably want is to flush the userspace buffers
 of your I/O library as soon as you write a line of output:
 See fflush(3), set[v]buf(3)... You may also use a non-buffered
 stream for writing logs.
 
 fsync(2) has other uses. In particular, it is of NO use as
 long as the logging application doesn't flush its I/O caches
 itself.
 
  Best regards
  Unga
 
 -cpghost.
 
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Re: ncal(1) prints control sequences on stdout if stdout is not a tty

2011-07-08 Thread Alexander Best

On Thu Jul  7 11, Tobias Rehbein wrote:
 Hi list,
 
 being the maintainer of www/nanoblogger, which uses cal(1) to generate the 
 blog
 calendar, I noticed that ncal(1), and therefore cal(1), prints control 
 sequences
 to stdout in order to highlight the current date. This scrambles the calendar
 generated by nanoblogger.
 
 I fixed this issue in the port but talking to one of the folks of our local 
 unix
 user group I was asked why I am not fixing this in ncal(1) as the sane 
 behaviour
 would be to omit control sequences if stdout is not a tty. Thinking about 
 that I
 decided to create a patch:
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/158580
 
 I just wanted to ask you fellow FreeBSD users what you think about this issue 
 as
 feedback in PRs tends to be slow.

hi there,

i've assigned your PR to Edwin Groothuis, who has been dealing with ncal(1) a
lot lately. I think chances are pretty high he's going to commit your patch
this month.

cheers.
alex

 
 Regards Tobias
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Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Alexander Best

On Wed Jul  6 11, arrowdodger wrote:
 2011/7/6 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de
 
  When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or
  when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large
  data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical modelings) or
  when compiling world, FreeBD 9.0 and FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE tend to freeze for
  several seconds or drop overall performance dramatically for seconds. On
  boxes with only console- or terminal access (no GUI) a running 'vi' gets
  stuck for seconds while one of the processes producing heavy I/O is running,
  or the output of a 'cat' of a large file stops for several seconds.

this might be a scheduling issue. iirc i/o intensive tasks have higher priority
than cpu intensive tasks, because they are expected to only issue a i/o request
and then free the processor, while cpu intensive tasks occupy the cpu a lot
longer. so maybe a process whith cyclic i/o requests blocks processes which
aren't doing i/o.

maybe playing with ULE's options can improve the situation. since you're
running GENERIC, preemption *should* be enabled. however you should double
check. i once tried running ULE without preemption and experienced exactly the
same situation you described in your mail. for ULE preemption is pretty much
mandatory. for the old 4bsd scheduler, running without preemtion doesn't really
make that much of a difference, compared to running with preemption.

you might also want to try enabling options IPI_PREEMPTION. no idea, if this
improves your situation, though.

cheers.
alex

 
  Using X11, this phenomenon gets even worse and the 'freezing' tends to
  persist sometimes for more than 10 or 15 seconds.
 
 
 I've also had (and still having) this problem on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE and
 8-STABLE with both UFS and ZFS. Though, i've been running FreeBSD not on
 powerful servers, but on laptops (2-core CPU's, 2 GB of RAM). But still,
 KDE4 on Linux performs much better during high disk IO.
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Re: gpu support for modern systems

2011-06-25 Thread Alexander Best

On Thu Jun 23 11, Christopher Bergström wrote:
 On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote:
  hi there,
 
  modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential for
  moving some of the workload from cpu to gpu. for certain stuff gpus are much
  faster than cpus, like number crunching or encoding/decoding multimedia
  contents.
 
  anybody who is using mplayer(1) in combination with nvidia cards and vdpau 
  has
  probably experienced how much faster and less cpu intensive things can work 
  out
  when decoding HD video stuff e.g.
 
  since opencl/cuda isn't available under freebsd, it doesn't seem possible to
  somehow hook the nvidia gpu into the every day freebsd workload that easily.
 
 PathScale has HMPP and partial CUDA support on FreeBSD now.  Some
 caveats to this
 
 1) Non-free (We could possibly make the tools free for FreeBSD
 community, but I'd have to get approval for it)
 2) CUDA support isn't complete (Basic core is there and HMPP C/Fortran works)
 3) Tesla 20xx series only
 
 We offer real support for FreeBSD and it's not using any linux emulator hacks.
 
 Let me know if anyone is interested.  (If we get enough positive
 feedback I'll pursue some resolution to #1)

i'd really love to see this stuff being made available to the community. i
think this could pose a huge advantage to all kinds of audiences: home users,
servers people, etc.

basically every modern computer comes with a gpu that performs much better at
certain tasks than the installed CPU. not making use of the gpu is a huge waste
of ressources. i think microsoft had a video on their channel 9 platform
demonstrating the huge advantages that one can get when offloading certain
tasks onto the gpu. just think of gimp being able to perform 10 times faster!

..or being able to compile world 10 times faster...or...or... ;)

cheers.
alex

 
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Re: gpu support for modern systems

2011-06-25 Thread Alexander Best

On Sat Jun 25 11, C. Bergström wrote:
  On 06/25/11 05:45 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
 On Thu Jun 23 11, Christopher Bergström wrote:
 On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alexander Bestarun...@freebsd.org  
 wrote:
 hi there,
 
 modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential 
 for
 moving some of the workload from cpu to gpu. for certain stuff gpus are 
 much
 faster than cpus, like number crunching or encoding/decoding multimedia
 contents.
 
 anybody who is using mplayer(1) in combination with nvidia cards and 
 vdpau has
 probably experienced how much faster and less cpu intensive things can 
 work out
 when decoding HD video stuff e.g.
 
 since opencl/cuda isn't available under freebsd, it doesn't seem 
 possible to
 somehow hook the nvidia gpu into the every day freebsd workload that 
 easily.
 PathScale has HMPP and partial CUDA support on FreeBSD now.  Some
 caveats to this
 
 1) Non-free (We could possibly make the tools free for FreeBSD
 community, but I'd have to get approval for it)
 2) CUDA support isn't complete (Basic core is there and HMPP C/Fortran 
 works)
 3) Tesla 20xx series only
 
 We offer real support for FreeBSD and it's not using any linux emulator 
 hacks.
 
 Let me know if anyone is interested.  (If we get enough positive
 feedback I'll pursue some resolution to #1)
 i'd really love to see this stuff being made available to the community. i
 think this could pose a huge advantage to all kinds of audiences: home 
 users,
 servers people, etc.
 
 basically every modern computer comes with a gpu that performs much better 
 at
 certain tasks than the installed CPU. not making use of the gpu is a huge 
 waste
 of ressources. i think microsoft had a video on their channel 9 platform
 demonstrating the huge advantages that one can get when offloading certain
 tasks onto the gpu. just think of gimp being able to perform 10 times 
 faster!
 
 ..or being able to compile world 10 times faster...or...or... ;)
 You missed the part where I said it's *Tesla* only.  This is really only 
 useful for HPC/life sciences/financial/server market.
 
 This isn't to say we're not excited about it, but I'm still unsure who 
 if anyone is using FreeBSD in those areas.

...but is the CUDA api for tesla so much different than the CUDA geforce api?
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gpu support for modern systems

2011-06-22 Thread Alexander Best

hi there,

modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential for
moving some of the workload from cpu to gpu. for certain stuff gpus are much
faster than cpus, like number crunching or encoding/decoding multimedia
contents.

anybody who is using mplayer(1) in combination with nvidia cards and vdpau has
probably experienced how much faster and less cpu intensive things can work out
when decoding HD video stuff e.g.

since opencl/cuda isn't available under freebsd, it doesn't seem possible to
somehow hook the nvidia gpu into the every day freebsd workload that easily.

however the newer generations of CPUs, like intel sandybridge include hardwired
gpus (quick sync?) and i guess intel provides an open api for that.

it would be really great to do something like:

`kldload intel_gpu.ko`

...and have the kernel offload certain computations to the gpu. maybe, with the
gpu serving as a second cpu, it would be even possible to ensure 100% uptime
with loading a copy of the kernel to the gpu, pointing the instruction pointer
at it, loading a new kernel version onto the cpu and switching to the new
kernel. :)

cheers.
alex

ps: sorry for not being that accurate here and there, just reading up on
sandybridge cpus and the z68 chipset, because i'm in the middle of upgrading
my box. ;)
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shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device)

2011-06-09 Thread Alexander Best

hi there,

i'm running HEAD on amd64. when executing certain linux apps, as well as native
freebsd gimp i get the following warnings:

(gimp:56100): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device)
shmget() failed: No space left on device
Disabling shared memory tile transport

...or similar. can anybody please help me with this and advise me which
values are not set properly? i think the following output should give you a
clue about my current settings in connection with the warnings.

thanks in advance.
alex

otaku% limits
Resource limits (current):
  cputime  infinity secs
  filesize infinity kB
  datasize 33554432 kB
  stacksize  524288 kB
  coredumpsize infinity kB
  memoryuseinfinity kB
  memorylocked infinity kB
  maxprocesses 5547
  openfiles   11095
  sbsize   infinity bytes
  vmemoryuse   infinity kB
  pseudo-terminals infinity
  swapuse  infinity kB
otaku% sysctl kern.ipc
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf: 16777216
kern.ipc.sockbuf_waste_factor: 8
kern.ipc.somaxconn: 1024
kern.ipc.max_linkhdr: 40
kern.ipc.max_protohdr: 40
kern.ipc.max_hdr: 80
kern.ipc.max_datalen: 88
kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 25600
kern.ipc.nmbjumbop: 12800
kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9: 6400
kern.ipc.nmbjumbo16: 3200
kern.ipc.maxpipekva: 33157120
kern.ipc.pipekva: 884736
kern.ipc.pipefragretry: 0
kern.ipc.pipeallocfail: 0
kern.ipc.piperesizefail: 0
kern.ipc.piperesizeallowed: 1
kern.ipc.msgmax: 16384
kern.ipc.msgmni: 40
kern.ipc.msgmnb: 2048
kern.ipc.msgtql: 40
kern.ipc.msgssz: 8
kern.ipc.msgseg: 2048
kern.ipc.semmap: 30
kern.ipc.semmni: 50
kern.ipc.semmns: 340
kern.ipc.semmnu: 150
kern.ipc.semmsl: 340
kern.ipc.semopm: 100
kern.ipc.semume: 50
kern.ipc.semusz: 632
kern.ipc.semvmx: 32767
kern.ipc.semaem: 16384
kern.ipc.shmmax: 536870912
kern.ipc.shmmin: 1
kern.ipc.shmmni: 192
kern.ipc.shmseg: 128
kern.ipc.shmall: 131072
kern.ipc.shm_use_phys: 0
kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed: 0
kern.ipc.numopensockets: 189
kern.ipc.maxsockets: 25600
kern.ipc.nsfbufs: 0
kern.ipc.nsfbufspeak: 0
kern.ipc.nsfbufsused: 0

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Re: problem with german umlauts and gtk apps (maybe unicode issue)

2011-06-09 Thread Alexander Best

On Thu Jun  9 11, Polytropon wrote:
 On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:57:05 +, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote:
  otaku% ls|grep html|hd 
    c3 84 c3 96 c3 9c c3 a4  c3 b6 c3 bc c3 9f 2e 68  
  |Ã.Ã.Ã.Ã€Ã¶ÃŒÃ..h|
  0010  74 6d 6c 0a   |tml.|
  0014
  [...]
  is gtk maybe switching to unicode when saving non-asciichars, instead to
  ISO8859-15?
 
 Yes, it looks that way.
 
 You _could_ try to use the traditional (non-european) settings:
 
 setenv  LC_ALL  en_US.ISO8859-1
 setenv  LC_MESSAGES en_US.ISO8859-1
 setenv  LC_COLLATE  de_DE.ISO8859-1
 setenv  LC_CTYPEde_DE.ISO8859-1
 setenv  LC_MONETARY de_DE.ISO8859-1
 setenv  LC_NUMERIC  de_DE.ISO8859-1
 setenv  LC_TIME de_DE.ISO8859-1
 
 (I set them per /ect/csh.cshrc systemwide, and don't set $LANG).
 The downside is that there is no Euro symbol with this setting,
 but nobody needs that. :-)
 
 
 
  however when it accesses a filename it can understand unicode as
  well as ISO8859-15?
 
 I would assume that as ISO-Umlauts and UTF-Umlauts have
 different byte representation, (iso)öäü.html and (utf)öäü.html
 would be different file names, so files with the same
 file name would be possible.
 
 
 
  can i instruct gtk to always use ISO8859-15 when saving filenames?
 
 As I'm not a Gnome user, I can't be specific on that
 question. Maybe there is a setting available through
 the gconf tool?
 
 A workaround, of course NOT a solution, is to NOT use
 non-standard characters in file names. I have trained
 my kids... erm users. Users! :-) to exactly do that, so
 there won't be problems in file name representation.
 And only lowercase. And no spaces. If you use, for
 example, das_uebel_vom_fasz.html instead of Das Übel
 vom Faß.html, you don't need to care for character
 representation (as everything will always be ASCII).

i think the problem is gtk. when i set LC_ALL=ISO8859-15, gimp complaints
about it:

(gimp:56139): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.

when i set it to lets say LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO8859-15 or LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO8859-1, it
doesn't complain. so it recognises that locale. however for some reason it
switches to UTF-8 when using chars like ö or ä, although they are perfectly
valid chars for the locale i defined.

this seems like a gtk bug imho.

cheers.
alex

 
 
 
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 Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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problem with german umlauts and gtk apps (maybe unicode issue)

2011-06-08 Thread Alexander Best

hi there,

for me the output of `locale -a` looks like this:

LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-15
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15
LC_COLLATE=en_GB.ISO8859-15
LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO8859-15
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.ISO8859-15
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.ISO8859-15
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.ISO8859-15
LC_ALL=

when i do `touch ÄÖÜäöüß` this works great. i can see the correct characters
under the console, X term and in gtk file dialogs.

*however* when i save a file via the gtk save dialog (lets say from within
chromium), the filename only gets displayed correctly in the gtk open dialog.

saving a file ÄÖÜäöüß.html from chromium's gtk dialog returns the following
under the console or an X term:

otaku% ls|grep html|hd 
  c3 84 c3 96 c3 9c c3 a4  c3 b6 c3 bc c3 9f 2e 68  |Ã.Ã.Ã.Ã€Ã¶ÃŒÃ..h|
0010  74 6d 6c 0a   |tml.|
0014

when i start gnome and use the open dialog both the `touch`ed ÄÖÜäöüß file as
well as the ÄÖÜäöüß.html saved by chromium looks fine.

is gtk maybe switching to unicode when saving non-asciichars, instead to
ISO8859-15? however when it accesses a filename it can understand unicode as
well as ISO8859-15?

can i instruct gtk to always use ISO8859-15 when saving filenames?

cheers.
alex

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Re: UDF and DVD's

2011-05-19 Thread Alexander Best

On Thu May 19 11, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:36:02AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
  Greetings... :)
  
  The first filesystem DVD... other than a movie DVD (DVD-VIDEO?),
  and the FreeBSD make release DVD's (iso9660)... that I've ever tried
  to mount, well... don't. It is:
   Windows 7 Ultimate with Service Pack 1 (x64) - DVD (English) 5/12/2011
  You can find the SHA-1 hash here:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx
  and a sample image, if needed for reference purposes, via any search
  engine.
  
  Anyways, after a little reasearch, does FreeBSD not, in fact, support
  this UDF version? (I don't yet know how to supply the version of
  this image for you?)
  
  Can the FreeBSD team implement it? Perhaps by porting from NetBSD
  5.1's seemingly near complete implementation?
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format
   http://www.osta.org/specs/index.htm
  As perhaps even a GSOC or Foundation project? Because reading retail
  optical filesystem formats would seem to be a rather expected
  capability?
  
  I'm guessing the current state within FreeBSD means that I can
  neither read, nor create, or write, readable (compatible) images
  at this, or any given, UDF level?
  
  As I've no other DVD's to test with... what UDF versions are most
  DVD data ROM's published in?
  
  Is this a blocker for FreeBSD?
  
  For me, at least, minimally, that seems to be the case... as I now
  have no way to rip, mount and add the files to this DVD that I would
  like to add. Except to use Windows, which I consider to be unreliable
  at best.
  
  Thoughts? Thanks :)

freebsd as of now has two problems:

1) it only supports UDF 1.x and *not* UDF 2.x.

2) it does not properly support iso9660 with files  4gb via multiple extents.
   whenever you mount such a dvd, you see each 4gb file twice.

cheers.
alex

ps: for 2) see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/95222

 
 Thoughts: please provide commands, full output, etc. that show how
 you're trying to mount the disc, as well as relevant /dev entries
 pertaining to your DVD drive.  dmesg might also be helpful.  And I
 assume you have looked at mount_udf(8)?
 
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Re: Skype with sound and video support :)

2011-05-17 Thread Alexander Leidinger

On Tue, 17 May 2011 09:01:41 -0700 Kevin Oberman ober...@es.net
wrote:


 Please put the information in this message (or at least most of it)
 into ports/UPDATING so a few less people running old kernels will be
 bitten by the installation of the new Skype port.

And what about a wiki page? This way we can extend it in case something
important is uncovered.

Bye,
Alexander.

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Input file for shutdown warning?

2011-05-16 Thread Alexander Lardner

Hello,
Is it possible to do something like this:

shutdown -p now /root/somefile

How would I do that, or is it even possible?
Thanks,
Alex
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Boot from DVD to install hangs

2011-05-15 Thread Alexander Lardner

Hello,
I have burned a DVD (I was out of CDs) image of PowerPC 8.2 to install on my
old iMac G3. However, it stops at the line that reads:

acd0: DVDROM MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8184/AA32 at ata0-slave UDMA33

What the heck does that mean, and why does it get stuck?

Thanks for any help,
Alex
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CD Boot to install hangs

2011-05-15 Thread Alexander Lardner

Hello,
I am re-asking as it's rather urgent.
I have burned a CD of PowerPC 8.2 to install on my old iMac G3. It boots, but 
it stops at the line that reads:

acd0: DVDROM MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8184/AA32 at ata0-slave UDMA33

What the heck does that mean, and why does it get stuck? More importantly, how 
do I fix it?

Thanks for any help,
Alex
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How to delete a line from setenv?

2011-05-03 Thread Alexander Lardner

Hi list,
This is a very basic question, but how do I delete a value from setenv? I
screwed up when changing a few things...don't ask. Thanks for any help!
-Alex
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Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-28 Thread Alexander Best

On Fri Apr 22 11, Devin Teske wrote:
  -Original Message-
  From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk]
  Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 9:35 AM
  To: Alexander Best
  Cc: Devin Teske; freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org;
  'Teske, Devin'
  Subject: Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for 
  configuring
  FreeBSD

  On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:41:46 +
  Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote:

   FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT amd64

  A new version of dialog was imported a few days ago - maybe something broke?

 Looks like `--hline' is not supported anymore. Thinking this should either be
 patched or documented in ERRATA/UPGRADING.

what would be the equivalent to --hline in the new dialog(1) package?

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Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-22 Thread Alexander Best

On Thu Apr 21 11, Devin Teske wrote:
 Hi List Members!
 
  
 
 I'm proud to announce the first update to my host-setup utility (a
 dialog(1)-based host configurator for FreeBSD). The following changes have 
 been
 made:
 
  
 
 - fixed bug where /etc/resolv.conf would be created with 0600 permissions
 
 - fixed bug when switching from one default gateway to NO default gateway
 
 - fixed typo in the title of netmask prompt and ifconfig options dialog
 
 - fixed bug that prevented entry of netmask if no netmask is configured
 
  
 
 You can get the updated version here:
 
  
 
 http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt

otaku% sudo ./host-setup.txt 
User cancelled.
otaku% echo $?
1
otaku%

 
 or
 
 http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.gz
 
 or
 
 http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/
 
  
 
  
 
 For those not familiar with my host-setup(1) utility, it is a 2,500+ line 
 shell
 script that utilizes the dialog(1) utility to walk the system administrator
 through setting up their TimeZone, Hostname, Network Interfaces, Default
 Gateway, and DNS. Our custom FreeBSD installer sets this script as the root
 login shell, making it very easy for field engineers to quickly get a system 
 on
 the network without having to use the command-line (and without having to 
 reboot
 either). Underneath the hood - behind the system of prompts and dialogs - this
 script manages both the contents of /etc/rc.conf, /etc/resolv.conf, and others
 as well as utilizing ifconfig(8), route(8), and many other tools to avoid
 requiring a reboot, prompting you if you would like to make the new changes
 effective when values are changed from their active settings.
 
  
 
 Here's the patch to show the details:
 
  
 
 --- host-setup.3_0   2011-02-10 19:14:30.0 -0800
 
 +++ host-setup  2011-04-21 13:38:58.0 -0700
 
 @@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 
 # -*- tab-width:  4 -*- ;; Emacs
 
 # vi: set tabstop=4 :: Vi/ViM
 
 #
 
 -# Revision: 3.0
 
 +# Revision: 3.1
 
 # Created: September 21st, 2010
 
 -# Last Modified: December 6th, 2010
 
 +# Last Modified: April 21st, 2011
 
  COPYRIGHT
 
 #
 
 -# Devin Teske (c)2006-2010. All Rights Reserved.
 
 +# Devin Teske (c)2006-2011. All Rights Reserved.
 
 #
 
 # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 
 # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 
 @@ -1353,8 +1353,10 @@ dialog_input_hostname()
 
   # permissions and ownership to match resolv.conf(5) before
 
   # we write it out and mv(1) it into place).
 
   #
 
 -  quietly chmod $( stat -f '%#Lp'  $RESOLV_CONF ) $tmpfile
 
 -  quietly chown $( stat -f '%u:%g' $RESOLV_CONF ) $tmpfile
 
 +  local mode=$( stat -f '%#Lp' $RESOLV_CONF 2 /dev/null )
 
 +  local owner=$( stat -f '%u:%g' $RESOLV_CONF 2 /dev/null )
 
 +  quietly chmod ${mode:-0644} $tmpfile
 
 +  quietly chown ${owner:-root:wheel} $tmpfile
 
#
 
   # Operate on resolv.conf(5), replacing only the last
 
 @@ -1646,7 +1648,7 @@ dialog_input_netmask()
 
 #
 
 while :; do
 
 -  dialog --title $brand${band:+}${progname:-$0} \
 
 +  dialog --title $brand${brand:+ }${progname:-$0}   \
 
  --hline Use numbers, punctuation, TAB or ENTER \
 
  --inputbox $msg 10 50  \
 
  $_netmask  \
 
 @@ -1664,7 +1666,7 @@ dialog_input_netmask()
 
   [ $retval -eq $SUCCESS ] || return $retval
 
# Return success if NULL value was entered
 
 -  [ $_netmask ] || return $SUCCESS
 
 +  [ $_input ] || return $SUCCESS
 
# Take only the first word of the user's input
 
   _netmask=$_input
 
 @@ -1705,7 +1707,7 @@ dialog_input_options()
 
 msg=Please enter additional network media options to be
 
 msg=$msg passed to ifconfig(8) for the $interface interface:
 
 -dialog --title $brand${band:+}${progname:-$0} \
 
 +dialog --title $brand${brand:+ }${progname:-$0}   \
 
--hline Use numbers, punctuation, TAB or ENTER \
 
--inputbox $msg 9 70   \
 
$options   \
 
 @@ -2183,9 +2185,12 @@ dialog_menu_netdev_edit()
 
local dr=$( sysrc_get defaultrouter ) err
 
err=$( ifconfig $interface inet $ipaddr \
 
   netmask $netmask $options 21 )
 
 -   if [ $? -eq $SUCCESS -a $dr ]; then
 
 -err=$( route add default $dr 21 )
 
 -[ $? -eq $SUCCESS ] || dialog_msgbox $err
 
 +   if [ $? -eq $SUCCESS ]; then
 
 +if [ $dr -a $dr != NO ]; then
 
 +  err=$( route add default $dr 21 )
 
 +  [ $? -eq $SUCCESS ] || \

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-22 Thread Alexander Best

On Fri Apr 22 11, Devin Teske wrote:
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Alexander Best [mailto:arun...@freebsd.org]
  Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 7:55 AM
  To: Devin Teske
  Cc: freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Teske,
  Devin
  Subject: Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for
  configuring FreeBSD
  
  On Thu Apr 21 11, Devin Teske wrote:
   Hi List Members!
  
  
  
   I'm proud to announce the first update to my host-setup utility (a
   dialog(1)-based host configurator for FreeBSD). The following changes
  have been
   made:
  
  
  
   - fixed bug where /etc/resolv.conf would be created with 0600
  permissions
  
   - fixed bug when switching from one default gateway to NO default
  gateway
  
   - fixed typo in the title of netmask prompt and ifconfig options dialog
  
   - fixed bug that prevented entry of netmask if no netmask is configured
  
  
  
   You can get the updated version here:
  
  
  
   http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt
  
  otaku% sudo ./host-setup.txt
  User cancelled.
  otaku% echo $?
  1
  otaku%
 
 Can you provide me with the output of uname -spr?

FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT amd64

 
 It's working fine for me on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE i386.
 
 Where you're bombing out is line 2403:
 [ $retval -eq 0 ] || die User cancelled.
 
 Functionally, that is testing the return status of dialog(1) for the initial
 menu. See if you can execute this (a rough approximation of the initial
 menu):
 
 dialog --clear --title foo --hline bar --menu abc 17 55 9 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5
 e X x 2 /tmp/dialog.menu.foo

doesn't work. :(

otaku% echo $?
255
otaku% cat /tmp/dialog.menu.foo 

Error: Unknown option --hline.
Use --help to list options.


otaku%

taku% whereis dialog
dialog: /usr/bin/dialog /usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-15/man1/dialog.1.gz 
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/dialog

otaku% /usr/bin/dialog
cdialog (ComeOn Dialog!) version 1.1-20100428
Copyright 2000-2007,2008 Thomas E. Dickey
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[...]

 
 A menu should appear. Select an item and then execute for me:
 
 echo $?
 
 If the above doesn't work, then I suspect that your dialog(1) is not working
 properly. I'd then go and try this as a sanity check:
 
 cd /usr/share/examples/dialog

otaku% cd /usr/share/examples/dialog 
cd: no such file or directory: /usr/share/examples/dialog

 sh menubox
 echo $?
 
 The result in both cases (as long as you actually select a menu item) should
 be 0.
 
 Also... (just as a sanity check for me) your /bin/sh is not a symlink to
 bash is it?

otaku% file /bin/sh 
/bin/sh: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically 
linked (uses shared libs), for FreeBSD 9.0 (900034), stripped

 --
 Devin
 
 
  
  
   or
  
   http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.gz
  
   or
  
   http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/
  
  
  
  
  
   For those not familiar with my host-setup(1) utility, it is a 2,500+
  line shell
   script that utilizes the dialog(1) utility to walk the system
  administrator
   through setting up their TimeZone, Hostname, Network Interfaces, Default
   Gateway, and DNS. Our custom FreeBSD installer sets this script as the
  root
   login shell, making it very easy for field engineers to quickly get a
  system on
   the network without having to use the command-line (and without having
  to reboot
   either). Underneath the hood - behind the system of prompts and dialogs
  - this
   script manages both the contents of /etc/rc.conf, /etc/resolv.conf, and
  others
   as well as utilizing ifconfig(8), route(8), and many other tools to
  avoid
   requiring a reboot, prompting you if you would like to make the new
  changes
   effective when values are changed from their active settings.
  
  
  
   Here's the patch to show the details:
  
  
  
   --- host-setup.3_0   2011-02-10 19:14:30.0 -0800
  
   +++ host-setup  2011-04-21 13:38:58.0 -0700
  
   @@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
  
   # -*- tab-width:  4 -*- ;; Emacs
  
   # vi: set tabstop=4 :: Vi/ViM
  
   #
  
   -# Revision: 3.0
  
   +# Revision: 3.1
  
   # Created: September 21st, 2010
  
   -# Last Modified: December 6th, 2010
  
   +# Last Modified: April 21st, 2011
  
    COPYRIGHT
  
   #
  
   -# Devin Teske (c)2006-2010. All Rights Reserved.
  
   +# Devin Teske (c)2006-2011. All Rights Reserved.
  
   #
  
   # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  
   # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
  
   @@ -1353,8 +1353,10 @@ dialog_input_hostname()
  
 # permissions and ownership to match resolv.conf(5) before
  
 # we write it out and mv(1) it into place).
  
 #
  
   -  quietly chmod $( stat -f '%#Lp'  $RESOLV_CONF )
  $tmpfile
  
   -  quietly

Re: dialog(1) changed in RELENG_9 (was RE: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD)

2011-04-22 Thread Alexander Best

On Fri Apr 22 11, Devin Teske wrote:
  -Original Message-
  From: Alexander Best [mailto:arun...@freebsd.org]
  Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 8:42 AM
  To: Devin Teske
  Cc: freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; 'Teske,
  Devin'
  Subject: Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for 
  configuring
  FreeBSD

  On Fri Apr 22 11, Devin Teske wrote:

-Original Message-
From: Alexander Best [mailto:arun...@freebsd.org]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 7:55 AM
To: Devin Teske
Cc: freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org;
Teske, Devin
Subject: Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for
configuring FreeBSD

On Thu Apr 21 11, Devin Teske wrote:
 Hi List Members!

 I'm proud to announce the first update to my host-setup utility (a
 dialog(1)-based host configurator for FreeBSD). The following
 changes
have been
 made:

 - fixed bug where /etc/resolv.conf would be created with 0600
permissions
 - fixed bug when switching from one default gateway to NO default
gateway
 - fixed typo in the title of netmask prompt and ifconfig options
 dialog
 - fixed bug that prevented entry of netmask if no netmask is
 configured

 You can get the updated version here:

 http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt

otaku% sudo ./host-setup.txt
User cancelled.
otaku% echo $?
1
otaku%

   Can you provide me with the output of uname -spr?

  FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT amd64

 I haven't yet had a chance to pull that one down and install it yet. Hopefully
 you can help me out with this one here.

   It's working fine for me on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE i386.

   Where you're bombing out is line 2403:
   [ $retval -eq 0 ] || die User cancelled.

   Functionally, that is testing the return status of dialog(1) for the
   initial menu. See if you can execute this (a rough approximation of
   the initial
   menu):

   dialog --clear --title foo --hline bar --menu abc 17 55 9 1 a 2 b 3 c
   4 d 5 e X x 2 /tmp/dialog.menu.foo

  doesn't work. :(

 Bummer! We'll have to fix that.

  otaku% echo $?
  255
  otaku% cat /tmp/dialog.menu.foo

  Error: Unknown option --hline.
  Use --help to list options.

 Aha! I think I remember seeing in the list a thread related to swapping out
 dialog(1) for something new. This must be it.

  otaku%

  taku% whereis dialog
  dialog: /usr/bin/dialog /usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-15/man1/dialog.1.gz
  /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/dialog

  otaku% /usr/bin/dialog
  cdialog (ComeOn Dialog!) version 1.1-20100428 Copyright 2000-2007,2008 
  Thomas
  E. Dickey This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  
  There
 is NO
  warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
  PURPOSE.

 I can't recall as I don't have the thread in front of me, but why was 
 dialog(1)
 replaced with cdialog? licensing? performance?

 I guess I could code my script to support this new dialog(1), but... can you 
 see
 if the below works (I removed the --hline option):

 dialog --clear --title foo --menu abc 17 55 9 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e X x 2
 /tmp/dialog.menu.foo

 If that succeeds, then I can modify my script to not use `--hline' on RELENG_9
 and higher (referencing `sysctl -n kern.osreldate` for example).

that works with $? == 0

  [...]

   A menu should appear. Select an item and then execute for me:

   echo $?

   If the above doesn't work, then I suspect that your dialog(1) is not
   working properly. I'd then go and try this as a sanity check:

   cd /usr/share/examples/dialog

  otaku% cd /usr/share/examples/dialog
  cd: no such file or directory: /usr/share/examples/dialog

 Really? I would have thought that the examples in that directory (which are
 merely shell scripts) would have been recoded for cdialog rather than 
 altogether
 removed. Maybe there was licensing issues there too. Was there?

   sh menubox
   echo $?

   The result in both cases (as long as you actually select a menu item)
   should be 0.

   Also... (just as a sanity check for me) your /bin/sh is not a symlink
   to bash is it?

  otaku% file /bin/sh
  /bin/sh: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically
  linked (uses shared libs), for FreeBSD 9.0 (900034), stripped

 Cool. Though I'm still disappointed that my beloved dialog(1) has gone missing
 (rather, replaced with something doesn't accept the same arguments and/or
 options)(which is the problem that we're experiencing here).

 Is there anybody familiar with the changing-out dialog(1) that can bring me up
 to speed with reasoning and specifics for RELENG_9? Also, might it be prudent 
 --
 before cutting 9_0_RELEASE -- to add the fact that dialog(1) no longer accepts
 `--hline' to the UPGRADING and/or ERRATA documents?
 -- 
 Devin

   --
   Devin

How to customize login?

Hello list,
I have set a banner welcoming anybody on the console. I still see the 
FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyvX) message. How can I stop this from displaying? 
I'd like the banner to be the only thing displayed.
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Re: How to customize login?

Yes, but by banner I mean /etc/issue. Here's what I get now when I boot 
up/switch to a new console:

Welcome to the Magnolia/Foothill FreeBSD Portable!
This system running FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE

Please log in with the username and password provided to you:

/*Note: Until this point it's all been /etc/issue. This next part I want to get 
rid of.*/

FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyvX /*where X is the console number*/)

Then it is followed by the login prompt.

On Apr 15, 2011, at 11:16 PM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com 
wrote:

 Hi,
 
 you have changed the file /etc/motd?
 
 Erich
 
 On Saturday 16 April 2011 13:06:16 Alexander Lardner wrote:
 Hello list,
 I have set a banner welcoming anybody on the console. I still see the 
 FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyvX) message. How can I stop this from 
 displaying? I'd like the banner to be the only thing displayed.
 Thanks to anybody helping!___
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Re: How to customize login?

Alright, got it done. Thanks!

On Apr 15, 2011, at 11:28 PM, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote:

 On 04/16/2011 09:06 AM, Alexander Lardner wrote:
 Hello list,
 I have set a banner welcoming anybody on the console. I still see the 
 FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyvX) message. How can I stop this from 
 displaying? I'd like the banner to be the only thing displayed.
 Thanks to anybody helping!___
 
 
 This is controlled by the im parameter in /etc/gettytab:
 
 default:\
:cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n%s/%m (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200:\
:if=/etc/issue:
 
 I guess you can remove it altogether. Have a look at man gettytab
 
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No login prompt when ssh-ing into my machine.