Re: Italics not shown properly in OpenOffice
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 18:10, Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! I have a strange problem in OpenOffice 1.1.4 with italics. Text formatted as italics doesn't show up in italics on screen. If I cut and paste som text from an old document it hows up properly. This is very strange, and a quite severe bug - if that's what it is. I've stumbled over the same som time (years?) ago. If I remember correctly, using a different font seemed to "fix" this. Years! Then I hope they fix this problem for the 2.0 release. I investigated the matter amongst the reported bugs, and it is such a bizarre oddity. The typeface they have choosen as default doesn't allow italics! Why on earth did they choose such a typeface? Setting the default typeface to something else "fix" the problem, correct. Too bad the problem is something else... /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Italics not shown properly in OpenOffice
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Frank Staals wrote: Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! I have a strange problem in OpenOffice 1.1.4 with italics. Text formatted as italics doesn't show up in italics on screen. If I cut and paste som text from an old document it hows up properly. This is very strange, and a quite severe bug - if that's what it is. I searched the list and found no mentioning of it. Google found a bugrapport for some debianthingie, but that was from 2003. Is it my system that's misbehaving, or OO? Is there something I can do to fix this? Anyone? Hm I found out there was a bug in OO.o 2 BETA when opening .xml files where bold and italic text were used, maybe its the same sort of problem ? this is the reported issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=45111 If it is like that I tink it is a problem in OO.o itself It might be part of the same problem. I see the problem with involving any MS documents, though, so it isn't covered by that bug report. I didn't think it was just FreeBSD misbehaving. I'll send a report to OO about it. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Italics not shown properly in OpenOffice
Hi! I have a strange problem in OpenOffice 1.1.4 with italics. Text formatted as italics doesn't show up in italics on screen. If I cut and paste som text from an old document it hows up properly. This is very strange, and a quite severe bug - if that's what it is. I searched the list and found no mentioning of it. Google found a bugrapport for some debianthingie, but that was from 2003. Is it my system that's misbehaving, or OO? Is there something I can do to fix this? Anyone? /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Common Lisp on FreeBSD
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hi all, I noticed that the clisp port is marked broken, so I have to look at other choices. Does anyone have any thoughts on the other Lisp ports as a good system to learn on and use? Install /usr/ports/lang/cmucl /usr/ports/lang/cmucl-extra /usr/ports/editors/emacs /usr/ports/editors/slime And you'll get a fast and reliable Common Lisp compiler, some extras like an debugger, an editor, an IDE or suchlike for handy Lisp development using emacs and a compiler of your choice. /usr/ports/lang/cmucl Can be substituted for /usr/ports/lang/sbcl But I like cmucl just fine. You'll fine it has much better support for e.g. CLOS than clisp has. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ps2pdf and ps2epsi behaving strange
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: After using these tools, installing the epsmegre port (and some others) and then removing the latter again, the former have stopped working! bash-2.05b$ ps2pdf elcFront.ps Unknown device: pdfwrite bash-2.05b$ ps2epsi elcFront.ps Unknown device: bit bash-2.05b$ How come those devices they ask for have dissapeared, or why have they suddenly developed a need for them? Oddly enough, ps2epsi seems to produce the correct output, regardless of the error - ps2pdf not so. I have reinstalled ghostscript-gnu, but it didn't solve the problem. Are there some port around that messed with them in a way that didn't showed up untill I pkg_delete'd those ports? Possibly. That would be a bug in whichever port did that, and would be worth fixing, but we'd have to identify the bug first. I think the file in question would be: $ locate pdfwrite /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib/pdfwrite.ps $ so check to see if you have it. OK, so it is a file. I wasn't sure, and didn't think about "locate" it! bash-2.05b$ locate pdfwrite /usr/local/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/pdfwrite.desktop /usr/local/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/pdfwrite.xml /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib/pdfwrite.ps /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu/work/ghostscript-7.07/lib/pdfwrite.ps Apparantly it's there. Now why it's used I have no idea. Of course, I now have no idea which ports I have installed, deleted and reinstalled again )or in what order). /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
ps2pdf and ps2epsi behaving strange
After using these tools, installing the epsmegre port (and some others) and then removing the latter again, the former have stopped working! bash-2.05b$ ps2pdf elcFront.ps Unknown device: pdfwrite bash-2.05b$ ps2epsi elcFront.ps Unknown device: bit bash-2.05b$ How come those devices they ask for have dissapeared, or why have they suddenly developed a need for them? Oddly enough, ps2epsi seems to produce the correct output, regardless of the error - ps2pdf not so. I have reinstalled ghostscript-gnu, but it didn't solve the problem. Are there some port around that messed with them in a way that didn't showed up untill I pkg_delete'd those ports? /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Domainname
I didn't think when I was doing my last install, and now my system has a domainname it shouldn't have. Too many different operating systems compete for space in my brain and I can't seem to find any information about "fully qualified domainname" in the fine manual, since all it talks about is NIS/YP, which isn't my problem. Any hints? /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Securely allowing just one application via telnet
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: If I want to allow external users to log on under only one permissible username, which immediately and unconditionally executes only one program (no shell access), via telnet, what is the most secure way to set this up? I've always understood telnet to be somewhat of a Pandora's box for security, but I don't know if that applies to the protocol itself, or to telnetd, or if it just refers to the many dangers of shell access, or what. If there is a way to secure this type of access, I'd like to try it on my test server (I won't risk the production server, of course), as an exercise in setting up custom environments. Any suggestions on how best to do this securely? If a specific user is restricted to a specific program at login (via /etc/passwd), is there _any_ way he can sneak out to a shell, assuming that the program he is forced to run does _not_ provide shellout access? Sure there is. If there is any possibility of a buffer overflow error in that one program you let your users run, or "login" for that matter. But, running the program as a login shell could at least minimize the possibilities I guess. Not that I've tried it myself. Go read about chroot and jail in the manpages and you'll think of something. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: MAC module problem
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Christopher Nehren wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-24, Andreas Davour scribbled these curious markings: I'v tried to load a few MAC modules and try that security system. This oddity appeared in dmesg: "mac_policy_modevent: can't load mac_lomac policy after booting module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (mac_lomac, 0xc056f4dc, 0xc1c285c0) error 16" It means exactly what it says. You can't load mac_lomac after having booted the system. You can see from mac_lomac(4) that you can put it in your kernel configuration, and that you load it from loader.conf. If you don't want to rebuild your kernel, you can use the module, if you have it. Ah! That's "loader.conf", not rc.conf as where I put it! Sorry. I must have been *very* tired when I read that and put it in the rc.conf file. Thanks. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
MAC module problem
I'v tried to load a few MAC modules and try that security system. This oddity appeared in dmesg: "mac_policy_modevent: can't load mac_lomac policy after booting module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (mac_lomac, 0xc056f4dc, 0xc1c285c0) error 16" Can someone here tell me what that means? Is there maybe a security focused list that are more appropriate for questions like this? /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Acroread7
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Marco Beishuizen wrote: On stardate Wed, 23 Mar 2005, the wise Andreas Davour entered: Exactly the same. As Erik (et al) wrote, it will all be pulled in and resolved as dependencies if you have a sufficienyly up-to-date ports tree. Kind of annyoing that it wasn't caught before it was comitted at all, but considering the total confusion that reigns right now with two different acroread ports it's just what can be expected. I did a cvsup 30 minutes ago, and then it worked. /Andreas Hmm I also did a cvsup, but it makes no difference, I still get the sam error. I guess I have an other problem on my system. You'll have to pkg_delete the old acroread port, and I did a "make clean" as well. Try that, and it might work. /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Acroread7
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Marco Beishuizen wrote: On stardate Wed, 23 Mar 2005, the wise Andreas Davour entered: I have hit upon another problem with my new system. Acroread is now version 7 (what was wrong with the previous version, Adobe? *shrug*) and since it is a Linux binary it naturally depends on Linux libraries. But, some of those libraries are missing. Anyone having the same problem? I searched google and the mailing lists for a solution, and found some that suggested telling the Linux ldconfig the localtion of the FreeBSD library files, but that wont work. Is the dependancies for the port broken, or have I missed something again? /andreas I've problems with linux libraries too (also after an update of my portstree). I get: ... /compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libXrandr.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ locate libXrandr.so.2 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 ... Is this the same problem you're having? Exactly the same. As Erik (et al) wrote, it will all be pulled in and resolved as dependencies if you have a sufficienyly up-to-date ports tree. Kind of annyoing that it wasn't caught before it was comitted at all, but considering the total confusion that reigns right now with two different acroread ports it's just what can be expected. I did a cvsup 30 minutes ago, and then it worked. /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Acroread7
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:54:04PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: I have hit upon another problem with my new system. Acroread is now version 7 (what was wrong with the previous version, Adobe? *shrug*) and since it is a Linux binary it naturally depends on Linux libraries. But, some of those libraries are missing. Anyone having the same problem? I searched google and the mailing lists for a solution, and found some that suggested telling the Linux ldconfig the localtion of the FreeBSD library files, but that wont work. Is the dependancies for the port broken, or have I missed something again? Sounds like you're running an out-of-date ports collection. Well, I updated it just days ago when I installed my new kernel. Maybe the port was broken just those days I looked then. If no others have the same problem I guess I must have been "lucky" to get it right when it broke then. :) /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Acroread7
I have hit upon another problem with my new system. Acroread is now version 7 (what was wrong with the previous version, Adobe? *shrug*) and since it is a Linux binary it naturally depends on Linux libraries. But, some of those libraries are missing. Anyone having the same problem? I searched google and the mailing lists for a solution, and found some that suggested telling the Linux ldconfig the localtion of the FreeBSD library files, but that wont work. Is the dependancies for the port broken, or have I missed something again? /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 8-bit characters anyone?
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-03-22 23:02, Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: In KDE, after having added my own xmodmap to the .xinitrc file, I though that they might appear. No such luck. Even after setting the keyboard layout on Control Panel/Regional/Keyboard Layout to Swedish do they not appear. [...] You have probably forgotten to set the locale related stuff correctly in your environment. What does the following in one of your shells? % env | grep LANG % env | grep LC_ Nothing at all. Though, I never did fiddle with locales before the upgrade either. In KDE I have configured the locale as Swedish, and the date, currency and those things look ok. This is probably what's causing you trouble. FWIW, using the XKB input extension here, I noticed that the X server fails to get/output any 8-bit character until I correctly set my environment in the login shell or my ``.xinitrc'' file. For instance, for Greek text input, I use: [-- .xinitrc file --] After adapting this to my locale, things look like they should in X. Now I'll just have to figure out how to get the console to work as I want as well. Things must have changed from my last install, when this wasn't necessary. Thanks for your help! /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 8-bit characters anyone?
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: You have probably forgotten to set the locale related stuff correctly in your environment. What does the following in one of your shells? % env | grep LANG % env | grep LC_ Nothing at all. Though, I never did fiddle with locales before the upgrade either. In KDE I have configured the locale as Swedish, and the date, currency and those things look ok. This is probably what's causing you trouble. FWIW, using the XKB input extension here, I noticed that the X server fails to get/output any 8-bit character until I correctly set my environment in the login shell or my ``.xinitrc'' file. For instance, for Greek text input, I use: [snip] Thanks! I'll try to set some locale settings in my .xinitrc and see if that solves anything. I don't use xorg, since I have been using XFree86 since the early 1990-ies and don't want to learn it all over again. Maybe that's what troubling my setup. Now I'll just wait for another long compile, and then shut down X and try this out. /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 8-bit characters anyone?
Thanks for you response! On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: In KDE, after having added my own xmodmap to the .xinitrc file, I though that they might appear. No such luck. Even after setting the keyboard layout on Control Panel/Regional/Keyboard Layout to Swedish do they not appear. Oddly enough, in emacs everything looks like it should! What am I missing, and what didn't I do after the upgrade? You have probably forgotten to set the locale related stuff correctly in your environment. What does the following in one of your shells? % env | grep LANG % env | grep LC_ Nothing at all. Though, I never did fiddle with locales before the upgrade either. In KDE I have configured the locale as Swedish, and the date, currency and those things look ok. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
8-bit characters anyone?
I have an odd problem. I can't get any 8-bit characters to show up after an upgrade. On the console nothing happens after I run kbdmap and choose Swedish ISO-8859-1. It just beeps, and prints the non-Swedish characters like before. In KDE, after having added my own xmodmap to the .xinitrc file, I though that they might appear. No such luck. Even after setting the keyboard layout on Control Panel/Regional/Keyboard Layout to Swedish do they not appear. Oddly enough, in emacs everything looks like it should! What am I missing, and what didn't I do after the upgrade? /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Xwrapper doesn't use .xinitrc, or does it?
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Andreas Davour wrote: I have just rebuilt my system and a few things aren't as they used to be. When I try to start X with Xwrapper no xterms or other windows appear. Isn't Xwrapper starting the stuff in .xinitrc like "startx" used to do for me (but wont do, since it no longer has the authority to do so)?? Isn't there some documentation for Xwrapper somewhere? You want startx(1). The .xinitrc file is read by "xinit", btw. I used to start X using startx. Now it doesn't work for anybody but root. Of course I can set "the bit" on the X image, but I guessed there was a reason somebody invented Xwrapper. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Updating FreeBSD
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Christopher San Diego wrote: I'm a confused newbie whose been (re)installing FreeBSD 5.3 Release for the past week or two. I've read the handbook and various other documents concerning updating FreeBSD only to learn that -STABLE and -CURRENT are both development branches. Take a look at what RELENG_5 and RELENG_5_3 means. That might make it clearer for you what release you want to track. RELENG_5 gets you a stable system with developments (5.4), RELENG_5_3 will get you a stable system with important fixes (5.3) last time I looked. CURRENT is some version of 6.0 or other. The difference in a major release number might give you an idea of which you'd like to follow. I never understood those CURRENT, STABLE or WHATEVER either. But, learn about what RELENG you'll need and I think you'll be fine. There are a lot of good webpages out there, and some official documentation on what the different branches means. /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Xwrapper doesn't use .xinitrc, or does it?
I have just rebuilt my system and a few things aren't as they used to be. When I try to start X with Xwrapper no xterms or other windows appear. Isn't Xwrapper starting the stuff in .xinitrc like "startx" used to do for me (but wont do, since it no longer has the authority to do so)?? Isn't there some documentation for Xwrapper somewhere? /Andreas (using RELENG_5_3, if that matters) -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: IPFW or pf?
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have read the handbook about firewalls, and compiled my kernel without switching on any explicit support for pf. Now, when I ran the mergemaster it suddenly found a lot of references to pf in my startup scripts. The startup scripts support pf, but do not require it. Ok, That's a relief. I didn't do anything stupid. Is pf some kind of mandatory part of the base system these days? I thought it was some kind of alternative to IPFW, but now I'm no longer so sure. It is a part of the base system. It is always present just like ipfw, but its use is not required. So, the base systems ships with two firewalls? Why? Reading about firewalls in the handbook, I realized I didn't know much about them. I'd say that adding some more text to the handbook about those two and how they [don't] interact might be a good idea. I don't know enough to do it. Can someone tell me if it's ok to just use IPFW on my STABLE system, or is there some other knobs in the kernelconfig I should toggle to turn off pf support? You are fine the way you are. I recommend letting mergemaster update the default pf startup files, so that it won't ask about them next time, but it doesn't really matter if you're not using pf. Will do. Thanks for the help! /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
IPFW or pf?
I have read the handbook about firewalls, and compiled my kernel without switching on any explicit support for pf. Now, when I ran the mergemaster it suddenly found a lot of references to pf in my startup scripts. Is pf some kind of mandatory part of the base system these days? I thought it was some kind of alternative to IPFW, but now I'm no longer so sure. Can someone tell me if it's ok to just use IPFW on my STABLE system, or is there some other knobs in the kernelconfig I should toggle to turn off pf support? /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Where do the linker look for shared libraries?
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: and the errors I get looks like this: /usr/local/lib//liballeg.so: undefined reference to `_poly_zbuf_atex_trans8' /usr/local/lib//liballeg.so: undefined reference to `_poly_scanline_atex_mask_lit32' This is the linker saying "there are symbols in liballeg.so that I cannot find anywhere". Maybe you need to specify another library along with liballeg? Are you using the allegro port? I have grep'ed for those symbols and they come from liballeg.so, no place else. That's one of the very confusing things with those errors. A web search on "undefined reference _poly_zbuf_atex_trans8" comes up with a couple hits, including a post that says you need to use the allegro-config command to determine the correct flags and libraries to link allegro. What does "allegro-config --libs" print? The demo programs built by the allegro port must work, so you could always build the port again and determine what flags it used. Allegro have indeed changed since I looked at it last. I think it's time to check the pkg-plist. I didn't even think about Google! That did indeed fix the problems. I wasn't far off, but it had to link with a file with the unfriendly name "unsharable". I'm using the allegro port. BTW, there is a linux-allegro port as well. Why is this needed if Allegro is a platform independant API? For linux programs that might need the library (same API, different ABI). I assume there's at least one in the ports tree somewhere. OK. Sounds strange, but I guess it makes sense. I still wonder if there's a way to have ld not go looking for ar archives by deafault... /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Where do the linker look for shared libraries?
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 02), Andreas Davour said: I've tried to compile and link a small game written with the Allegro API. For some odd reason the linker just don't understand how to resolve the symbols in the library. It just can't accept that the library is in a ".so" file and not an ".a" archive, and even when I point it out explicitly it still don't get it. This is my commandline: gcc main.o rotoAction.o rotoCog.o -o RotoCube.exe -lstdc++ -L/usr/local/lib/ -lalleg and the errors I get looks like this: /usr/local/lib//liballeg.so: undefined reference to `_poly_zbuf_atex_trans8' /usr/local/lib//liballeg.so: undefined reference to `_poly_scanline_atex_mask_lit32' This is the linker saying "there are symbols in liballeg.so that I cannot find anywhere". Maybe you need to specify another library along with liballeg? Are you using the allegro port? I have grep'ed for those symbols and they come from liballeg.so, no place else. That's one of the very confusing things with those errors. I'm using the allegro port. BTW, there is a linux-allegro port as well. Why is this needed if Allegro is a platform independant API? /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Where do the linker look for shared libraries?
Hi! I've tried to compile and link a small game written with the Allegro API. For some odd reason the linker just don't understand how to resolve the symbols in the library. It just can't accept that the library is in a ".so" file and not an ".a" archive, and even when I point it out explicitly it still don't get it. This is my commandline: gcc main.o rotoAction.o rotoCog.o -o RotoCube.exe -lstdc++ -L/usr/local/lib/ -lalleg and the errors I get looks like this: /usr/local/lib//liballeg.so: undefined reference to `_poly_zbuf_atex_trans8' /usr/local/lib//liballeg.so: undefined reference to `_poly_scanline_atex_mask_lit32' Which is kind of odd since before I added the -L flag it complained about the .a file being missing. Now it's not being used. How do ld decide where to look for libraries? Is there a way to teach it systemwide not to search for ar archived, and in fact use the .so files? And why on earth is the linker complaining about undefined references now that it is actually looking at the right shared library file? /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Ethernet bridge/tunneling with tap/tun
I've been reading the handbook, the man pages and been trying to do some inventive maneuvers. I don't work. So, I have the bridge module loaded, I have the if_tap module loaded. I have "activated" the tap/tun device with 'cat /dev/tap0 |tun0'. How do I set up the bridge? I've read the manpage for ifconfig and tried a few times to bridge from my rl0 interface to some of the tap/tun devices. I get some different error messages, but mostly it complains that I use the wrong arguments. I think I have misunderstood how these ethernet bridges work. Are there anyone out there that have a webpage, or some other documentation of a working example of ethernet tunneling? Google finds me some linux stuff I don't find applicable. The big idea with all this is to get my simulated VAX to bridge its interface to my physical rl0 via tap0. But how? If nobody have any documentation to suggest, then I guess I'll have to do a step by step example of what goes wrong and hope someone can debug that. Thankful for any pointers in the correct direction. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: server replication?
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Gregor Mosheh wrote: My employer is looking for solutions to achieve zero-downtime in the event of a hardware failure. I've been doing sysadmin for some time, but this is out of my league, and I wanted to ask the list for any advice, hints, etc. What you need then is some kind of clustering. If you want a really good one, look at OpenVMS. It's not very much like FreeBSD, though. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Olivier Certner wrote: I'm not able to give a deep answer on that. What I can say is that you must compile the kernel with bpf if you want to use the DHCP protocol or the tcpdump utility. tcpdump as well? Worth remembering. It would be great if someone can clarify the precise roles of bpf. Indeed. That it is the userland framework helps, but I guess something is lacking in the documentation, or my skill at reading it. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Charles Swiger wrote: On Jan 5, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Andreas Davour wrote: I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really understood the role of bpf. Is it supposed to be enabled when I use IPFW or is it another beast altogether, best left undisturbed? The BPF, or Berkeley Packet Filter, is really intended for use by userland applications which want to perform network analysis and packet filtering. IPFW and the other firewalls for FreeBSD are written as kernel modules and thus deal with the network stack directly. The current DHCP implementation (ISC's dhcpd and dhclient programs) depends on BPF to work, so I would be cautious about removing it from your kernel unless you are sure you won't need it. Then I'd better not remove it from my kernel config, since I use dhcp for my network connection. Thanks for the warning! /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:09:55PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: I started to do some research for a kernel compile that should migrate my system into the future I came upon the line "options bpf" in the kernel config file. I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really understood the role of bpf. Is it supposed to be enabled when I use IPFW or is it another beast altogether, best left undisturbed? It's completely separate. OK, good to know. It wasn't all together clear from the documentation. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?
I started to do some research for a kernel compile that should migrate my system into the future I came upon the line "options bpf" in the kernel config file. I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really understood the role of bpf. Is it supposed to be enabled when I use IPFW or is it another beast altogether, best left undisturbed? /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem compiling gcc3.4
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:02:17AM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! On my FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE GENERIC (yeah, I will upgrade soon) I can't get the gcc3.4 port to compile. Unless I'm mistaken, gcc3.4 is used for 5.3 nowdays. Do I dare to upgrade to 5.3 or do I have the chance of ending up with a broken compiler? 5.3 doesn't use the gcc port to compile the base system, it includes a version of gcc. You have nothing to worry about here. Excellent. I thought so, but confirmation calms my fears. Or, is it just that the port is broken for 5.2? I haven't found any hints in UPDATING. 5.2 is no longer officially supported by the ports collection, so problems of this nature are not tracked. Time to learn mergemaster and do that upgrade then... Thanks Kris! /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Problem compiling gcc3.4
Hi! On my FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE GENERIC (yeah, I will upgrade soon) I can't get the gcc3.4 port to compile. Unless I'm mistaken, gcc3.4 is used for 5.3 nowdays. Do I dare to upgrade to 5.3 or do I have the chance of ending up with a broken compiler? Or, is it just that the port is broken for 5.2? I haven't found any hints in UPDATING. /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mailing Lists (and high volumes) vs Newsgroups
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Although I've been using FreeBSD for several years, I have not been active with mailing lists at all. I preferred to use newsgroups search and a little bit of posting. I am wondering, why mailing list is the official support mechanism (as opposed to newsgroups)? Ruby seems to be supported through newsgroups quite nicely. You mention Gnus as your newsreader. Try using it for mail then. It's quite workable. Then you get all the benefits of news that you need. /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: freebsd on 2nd drive?
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, ice wrote: I know this has been asked already, but it's a slightly different problem. Let me explain my situation first: I'm 14 years old without my own PC. I can't let the FreeBSD bootloader install on the first drive (Windows XP), because my family is kinda...how should I put it...n00bish. They would completely freak out at the sight of turning on the computer and not seeing the XP startup screen. I'm planning on installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 on the second hard drive in this computer. I've read over the installation guide and don't see anything useful about the bootloader being on the non-first drive. My question is: can I install the FreeBSD bootloader on the second hard drive and use something like GAG on a floppy to boot it? It works like a dream, just go ahead. I did like that when installing my system, and before I decided to run GAG from HD. /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Mysterious freeze while booting
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote: /etc/hosts basically serves as a backup for cases where the DNS does not work. Seems to me as if sshd is crating the seem to hang up as it can't get the box hostname resolved properly. Sshd? It shouldn't even be running! I guess I'll have to see if it is... I also forgot to mention sendmail. Sendmail sounds like a likelier candidate. I had forgotten about it. I'll have to follow that trail. Thanks! /andreas -- George W. Bush won, so now the world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed. Congratulation USA! I'm happy I'm not a part of it. My conscience is clean. Is yours? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Mysterious freeze while booting
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote: /etc/hosts basically serves as a backup for cases where the DNS does not work. Seems to me as if sshd is crating the seem to hang up as it can't get the box hostname resolved properly. Sshd? It shouldn't even be running! I guess I'll have to see if it is... /andreas -- George W. Bush won, so now the world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed. Congratulation USA! I'm happy I'm not a part of it. My conscience is clean. Is yours? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Mysterious freeze while booting
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote: When booting the console displays the usual messages like below: 1> Starting local daemons:. 2> Updating motd. 3> Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime. What is strange is that after line 3 the computer suddenly stops for a long time, almost a minute, doing (as far as I know) nothing! Add your system hostname to /etc/hosts. Alternatively ensure that DNS resolves properly on your box. If you just want to skip the whole thing, then press Ctrl+C when the box hangs up or seems to hang up. I have added my hostname, and it didn't change anything. Maybe my DNS name is something else than what I think. I'll look into it. Why would adding the hostname work? What is it that's fooling around with my hostname at this point in the boot process? /andreas -- George W. Bush won, so now the world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed. Congratulation USA! I'm happy I'm not a part of it. My conscience is clean. Is yours? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Mysterious freeze while booting
I have this odd behaviour from both my 5.2 and my 5.3 installations. GENERIC or my own. When booting the console displays the usual messages like below: 1> Starting local daemons:. 2> Updating motd. 3> Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime. 4> Initial i386 initialization:. 5> Additional ABI support: linux. 6> Starting cron. What is strange is that after line 3 the computer suddenly stops for a long time, almost a minute, doing (as far as I know) nothing! Then the following lines 4,5,6 flow forth and the systems boot like it should. I have examined the Handbook, and I have checked the scripts that produce this output and I don't understand what's happening. I also tried to run the process step-by-step by hand from single-user mode and it never showed that odd "sleep" period. Anyone have a clue? /Andreas -- George W. Bush won, so now the world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed. Congratulation USA! I'm happy I'm not a part of it. My conscience is clean. Is yours? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Sound volume in KDE3.3
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 29 October 2004 02:06 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: Since I did my last cvsup I have had many annoying problems, many related to firefox. This about KDE is even more annoying. So, is there any permanent solution to the KDE setting my volume to 0? I saw some reply to the problem about removing a file somewhere, which didn't stop the volume from reset to zero after a reboot. Can I make kmix remember my settings somehow? I'm beginning to tired of running kmix every time I start up just to raise the volume. That is one of the configuration options. You're refering to the "Restore volumes on login" clickbox? I tried that, and it didn't work. That's why I'm getting annoyed. Maybe I should just pkg_delete both firefox and KDE and start over then. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Sound volume in KDE3.3
Since I did my last cvsup I have had many annoying problems, many related to firefox. This about KDE is even more annoying. So, is there any permanent solution to the KDE setting my volume to 0? I saw some reply to the problem about removing a file somewhere, which didn't stop the volume from reset to zero after a reboot. Can I make kmix remember my settings somehow? I'm beginning to tired of running kmix every time I start up just to raise the volume. /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Firefox eternal loop when starting
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, albi wrote: *** loading the extensions datasource over and over again and never starts. Anyone know how to fix this? i had the same, after starting Firefox as root first (just for one time) it now works fine for the normal users Thanks for your answers! Didn't work though, I'm sad to say. But I just saw that I had saved my old .mozilla directory from when I upgraded to 0.9.3 long ago. I had problems then *as well* with just about everything breaking. Now I copied everything from that old directory to the new default generated .mozilla and everything started to work. Of course, now I'm back to my settings from way back and nothings shows up in the listing of installed extensions, even though they still work! This Firefox thing is one crappy pice of odd behaviour. /andreas (annoyed) -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Firefox eternal loop when starting
I have stumbled on some problem with the Firefox port, version 1.0.1.p, and the advice in the UPDATING file don't work. I have removed the old .mozilla directory, but when the new one is created the same old problem stays. It says: *** loading the extensions datasource *** loading the extensions datasource *** loading the extensions datasource over and over again and never starts. Anyone know how to fix this? /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Shutdown And User Intervention
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Rishi Chopra wrote: Is there a way to issue a shutdown command that doesn't require me to press a key to reboot? Currently when I enter the command 'shutdown -p' the system shuts down gracefully but I have to press a key to reboot the system. Ultimately I'd like to be able to power-off the system gracefully without requiring the user (me) to press a key afterwards. Check if you have the acpi kernel module loaded. Without it, the "shutdown -p" can't shutoff the computer without human intervention. At least in no way I know. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Updating Firefox
I have just tried a portupgrade and suffer from an uncommon amount of problems building many programs. One that has been built but isn't doing like it it is the Firefox 0.9 port. Why is it that all my bookmarks are gone? How do I make it recognize all the extensions I hav installed, and where is my history? I can 'import' bookmarks, but all the other problems remain, even after renaming my old .phoenix to .firefox to keep up with the name changes. Anyone? /Andreas === mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift' ... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'" === ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD desktop newcomer (Enemy Territory players read) - need minor help
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi list, > 1. I've added a 'paw' menu to access the main menu, but I'd like the > win-key to open this menu. possible? Almost anything is possible, if you work hard enough. Please tell us more about what your environment is before you expect any meaningful answer. You might want to start checking out xmodmap which is good at remapping keys. > 3. Annoyances with enemy territory: Keys: Look above, xmodmap might help. > - Im getting some delay switching weapons and shooting. I press mouse1 > and about 0.5sec later the weapon will shoot. This should be > instantaneous. I don't have any idea on this one, solutions ? Do remember that you are running the Linux version of ET. It is slower than running native. You are very welcome to try to convince the developers of Enemy Territory to do a FreeBSD version. > - CAPS LOCK key won't work ingame. Works fine on gnome. I need the caps > lock key on enemy territory. Look to my answer above. Hope that at least pointed you in the right direction. /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: I messed up, removed /usr/X11R6/lib
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The latter sounds triesome. I remember how long time it took to compile > > > OpenOffice and all of KDE, even om my 1200MHz machine. > > > > Yeah, those are well-known for taking forever to compile. > > I think you might be in luck with KDE since that seems to put its files > > under /usr/local (while GNOME programs tend to put their files under > > /usr/X11R6). I don't know where OpenOffice installs to. > > > > just a tad off topic... whenever you're making those gargantuan ports, it > is a good idea to also make a package (for occasions just like this) and > keep it around until you update to the next version (and make another > package). An excellent idea. /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Enemy Territory
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Miguel Mendez wrote: > Hi, > > [Enemy Territory run attempt] > > ...loading libGL.so.1: QGL_Init: dlopen libGL.so.1 failed: libGL.so.1: > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > failed > > - CL_Shutdown - > > RE_Shutdown( 1 ) > > --- > > - CL_Shutdown - > > --- > > Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem > > > I know some X stuff have gone south due to my clumsy fingers, but > > libGL.so.1 *is* present. I did a 'ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1' and it > > was there. It even was present at /usr/compat/linux/lib/libGL.so.1 > > when I checked. > > > Any ideas on how to debug this problem? I there some other missing > > stuff that can cause this? > > Ok, first, Enemy Territory is a Linux binary, and needs Linux libs, so > make sure all the needed Linux libs are there (libGL et al). > > Now, I seem to remember that I had to specify the opengl library once to > get it to work (sorry, I don't have ET installed right now). > > et should be a shell script that sets some variables and loads de real > thing. Now there's a parameter you can give to the real exe (something > like -r) to specify the full path for the opengl library. Try setting it > to /usr/compat/linux/libGL.so.1 and see if it finds it. I have the Linux compatibility stuff installed, no problem there. When I installed the nvidia drivers, as suggested by another poster, it started working like it should. Now it works fine. Thanks for the idea of looking at the er shell script! I hadn't thought about that. It might come in handy if more problems arise, or something isn't workign at its best later on. Thanks! /andreas === mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift' ... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'" === ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Enemy Territory
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jorn Argelo wrote: > Andreas Davour wrote: > > >Since I just recently trashed a lot of my X-libs, I have no idea if this > >is even possible to get to work, by anyway. I have a friend who is stuck > >in the windoze rut and he have told me zillions of times I have to plat > >Enemy Territory with him. I realized that it was to be found under > >/usr/ports/games and tried to install it. > > > >Now when I run it it gives me this message: [snip] > Have you installed the Nvidia drivers from the ports tree? And where is > libGL.so.1 located? It should be in something like /usr/X11R6/lib or > something like that. > > I never had any problems with ET at all. I just compiled the Nvidia > drivers from the ports tree, installed ET from the ports tree (though I > had some problems finding the executable), and it worked just fine. > Exept that Arts was a PITA sometimes and I had to change the sound > system in order to get sound. Nvidia drivers wasn't something I had thought about. I have used the 'nv' driver just fine until now. When I compiled nividia ET started working. Thanks for that idea! I do understand what you mean by not finding the executable... Thanks! /Andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Enemy Territory
Since I just recently trashed a lot of my X-libs, I have no idea if this is even possible to get to work, by anyway. I have a friend who is stuck in the windoze rut and he have told me zillions of times I have to plat Enemy Territory with him. I realized that it was to be found under /usr/ports/games and tried to install it. Now when I run it it gives me this message: ET 2.56 linux-i386 Sep 10 2003 - FS_Startup - Current search path: /home/ante/.etwolf/etmain /usr/compat/linux/usr/games/et/etmain/pak1.pk3 (10 files) /usr/compat/linux/usr/games/et/etmain/pak0.pk3 (3725 files) /usr/compat/linux/usr/games/et/etmain/mp_bin.pk3 (4 files) /usr/compat/linux/usr/games/et/etmain -- 3739 files in pk3 files execing default.cfg couldn't exec language.cfg couldn't exec autoexec.cfg Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok --- Input Initialization --- Joystick is not active. Bypassing CD checks - Client Initialization - - Initializing Renderer --- - Client Initialization Complete - - R_Init - ...loading libGL.so.1: QGL_Init: dlopen libGL.so.1 failed: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory failed - CL_Shutdown - RE_Shutdown( 1 ) --- - CL_Shutdown - --- Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem I know some X stuff have gone south due to my clumsy fingers, but libGL.so.1 *is* present. I did a 'ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1' and it was there. It even was present at /usr/compat/linux/lib/libGL.so.1 when I checked. Any ideas on how to debug this problem? I there some other missing stuff that can cause this? /Andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: I messed up, removed /usr/X11R6/lib
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:34:02AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > Apart from the obvious answer to use the backup, is there any way to get > > it all back in /usr/X11R6/lib after you did a 'rm -fr' to many? > > > > I have reinstalled the /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 port which I had hoped > > would pull back in all needed stuff. But, now X complains about some > > missing parts which I don't know where they come from. Anyone know how I > > can get it all back? > > > > The Errors: > > (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0) > > (EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist, 0) > > > > Where do I find them? > > Those two come from the x11-server/XFree86-4-Server port, but there are > *lots* of programs that install files under /usr/X11R6/lib - most programs > that use X and install shared libraries put the libraries there, for > example, so be prepared for more problems appearing. Ok, XFree86-4-Server it was. X started working after I reinstalled that one. Thanks. I guess problems will appear later on, but at least X is working right now and KDE don't seem to be broken. Hopefully after a few cvsup's I will be back were I started. > Restoring from backups sounds like a good idea. The other possibility > is to reinstall all programs you have. The latter sounds triesome. I remember how long time it took to compile OpenOffice and all of KDE, even om my 1200MHz machine. I will seriously look at the idea of wiping my labsystem and use that disk for backups instead. /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
I messed up, removed /usr/X11R6/lib
Hi. Apart from the obvious answer to use the backup, is there any way to get it all back in /usr/X11R6/lib after you did a 'rm -fr' to many? I have reinstalled the /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 port which I had hoped would pull back in all needed stuff. But, now X complains about some missing parts which I don't know where they come from. Anyone know how I can get it all back? The Errors: (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist, 0) Where do I find them? /Andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Firefox will not start after javaplugin install failed.
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:44:28 +0200 (CEST) > Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > > I stumbled upon a page that complained that I had to install a java > > plugin to view the page. I do have a java jvm installed but din't think > > and clicked the webpage and told it to install that Linux plugin, since > > it would probably work better than the Windows one anyway. > > > > Now, afterwards Firefox just wont start! > > > > It says: > > bash-2.05b$ firefox > > firefox-bin: Fatal IO error 78 (Function not implemented) on X server > > :0.0. > > bash-2.05b$ > > > > Anyone know what that means? Is there one smart way I can fix what the > > install have destroyed? I did a 'make deinstall; make reinstall' but it > > didn't help. > > heya andreas, > > my guess would be that your java install added a few files that are not > recognized by the port 'deinstall' mechanism (because they're not listed in > the firefox port), so it leaves them and the directories intact. so, when > you reinstall, these files are still kicking around. > > you're probably going to want to deinstall firefox and watch for messages > which complain about not being able to remove directories. look for these > and any other firefox folders which still have content, then manually > delete them. (probably somewhere under/usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/...) I probably had a brainmelt earlier tonight. That was sound advice, and would probably have worked fine. But I happened to press 'rm -fr /usr/X11R6/lib' instead... Now I have been working awhile to get that back, and have no idea what might be missing more. At least Firefox is working again, but now I broke KDE! *sigh* I think I'll need to sleep on this. Thanks anyway, I should have done as you suggested, after sleeping. /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Firefox will not start after javaplugin install failed.
Hi! I stumbled upon a page that complained that I had to install a java plugin to view the page. I do have a java jvm installed but din't think and clicked the webpage and told it to install that Linux plugin, since it would probably work better than the Windows one anyway. Now, afterwards Firefox just wont start! It says: bash-2.05b$ firefox firefox-bin: Fatal IO error 78 (Function not implemented) on X server :0.0. bash-2.05b$ Anyone know what that means? Is there one smart way I can fix what the install have destroyed? I did a 'make deinstall; make reinstall' but it didn't help. /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: How to decrease the loader wait-time?
On Mon, 24 May 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 24), Andreas Davour said: > > I've been staring at the beastie during startup quite a bit now. Even > > though he is a handsome chap to stare at, I still think 10 seconds > > each boot is a bit to much. > > > > Can someone tell me how I configure the loader to decrease the time > > delay? I kind of figured it would be found in the Handbook, I haven't > > found it. Pointers welcome. > > /boot/loder.conf: > beastie_disable="YES" > autoboot_delay="2" > > works for me. The variables are defined in the loader manpage (not > loader.conf, which only describes the syntax). So I didn't read the loader manpage closely enough. I read about loader.conf, but apparantly that wasn't right. Thanks for the help! /andreas === Emacs = mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift' ... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'" === ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: How to decrease the loader wait-time?
On Mon, 24 May 2004, Frank Mueller wrote: > Just add the following line to your /boot/loader.conf: > > autoboot_delay="SECONDS" > > and set the time in seconds for SECONDS. Thanks! I'll try that. /andreas === Emacs = mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift' ... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'" === ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
How to decrease the loader wait-time?
Hi! I've been staring at the beastie during startup quite a bit now. Even though he is a handsome chap to stare at, I still think 10 seconds each boot is a bit to much. Can someone tell me how I configure the loader to decrease the time delay? I kind of figured it would be found in the Handbook, I haven't found it. Pointers welcome. Thanks. /andreas === Emacs = mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift' ... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'" === ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: cdrw & PIO4
On Sat, 8 May 2004, w sx wrote: > Thanks you - Worked great! Glad I could be of help. Happy hacking! /Andreas === Emacs = mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift' ... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'" === ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problems installing arts-1.2.2,1 port
On Mon, 3 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am having some problems building the arts-1.2.2,1 port. > > The box is freshly installed & cvsuped, with only portupgrade installed. > > I ran "portinstall -v -m BATCH=YES kde" to install X & kde. > > Here is the error I get: I can't help you with your problem, but I can add myself to the list of those who can't get arts to compile. So, I also very much want to know if someone know how to fix the problem. /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RiscOS Window Decorations
So, now I have a new and shiny KDE3.2 installed. Great desktop and all, I still have hit ona minor snafu, though. I hope anyone here can help me with it. If there is a better list for KDE related questions, please let me know. Well. I used RiscOS looking window decorations before, but now after the upgrade they seems to have dissapeared. I tried to check the kde-look webpage, but found no trace of it. Not even the one I used for KDE3.1 for some odd reason! Are there anyone who can tell where I can find RiscOS window decorations? There is a RiscOS theme already, oddly enough... /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Portupgrade problem
I wanted to send my heartfelt thanks to all who chimed in with helpful suggestions on my portupgrade problem. I have now learned that ports-all is proably the best option for a ports-supfile, and I'll have to look into the issue about a refuse file instead when I want to limit the selection. I have also learnt the importance of running 'portsdb -Uu' after upgrading. Now I think I know how to do these things and after another upgrade I think I'm ready to at least do the cvsup part using cron. Once again, many thanks! /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Gary Kline wrote: > If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb > -Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron? That's how I > make sure tht my ports tree is neat nd clean. Well, when I have succeeded in doing a portupgrade by hand I think that might be an option. I must feel confident that it works before I dare script it by cron. One thing confuses me, though. I refers to 'pkgdb -Uu', but the man page for that program don't mention a -U flag. There is another program called 'portsdb' that have both a -u and a -U flag. Which one am I supposed to use. Both? /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Martin Hudec wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > don't you really have atk in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk directory? No. > Perhaps look into ports-supfile.. do you have there ports-all enabled? No, I have it commented out, since I left all the individual ports collections in there instead, except for arabic, hebrew and some other exotic languages. Could it be I have made such a basic mistake as to not cvsup'ed a vital dependedcy?! I kind of figured the newly cvsup'ed port of cvsup would have included a new example file of ports-supfile if that had been the problem. One should never *expect* a computer to do something I guess. Would something strange happen now if I added a line for 'ports-accessability' in my ports-supfile and tried to cvsup again? I guess I *really* should do a pkgdb -Uu then? /Andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Andreas Davour wrote: > > >Hi! > > > >And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new > >cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!? > > Because it's a dependancy of about 538 distinct > ports, at least one of which you must have > installed > > GNOME, perhaps 538!! Well, I haven't installed GNOME, but some other port might depend on some GNOME component, I guess. That sounds like an important port. I don't understand why I wasn't getting it when I cvsup'ed then. Is there a line the the ports-supfile which should read 'ports-accessibility'? Maybe I should add it and cvsup again. /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Kent Stewart wrote: > Firefox depends on gtk-2.4.0, which depends on atk. All of these > problems relate back to updating dependancies of glib-2.4.0. Ok, that at least explains why atk seems so important. > The question at this point is what you updated and the order. If you > were starting out clean, a portupgrade -rR glib would have done most of > this but I wouldn't bet money. I eventually did a -rf glib to get > things built cleanly. Well, I started out with a clean 5.2-RELEASE and did cvsup 4 days ago. I don't remember seeing glib being upgraded, but I guess I could always try to '-rf glib' if it is a problem. It still don't tell me why I have no directory for atk, though... /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > It is best to have a ports tree that contains almost > everything except foreign languages when using BSD on > a "workstation" or in a "desktop" environment --- there are > so many dependancies. So I thought. I edited away everything that was exotic languages ports and kept the rest. > That said, you haven't told us how old your ports tree > is; please look at /usr/ports/UPDATING and note that > in the last few months there have been a couple of big > issues, namely new versions of expat and gettext, IIRC, > that affect many, many of the commonly used 3rd party > sw packages/ports. Stupid me. I had 5.2-RELEASE installed, and did a cvsup 4 days ago. I have followed all the instructions in the UPDATING file. /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: [snip] > > If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't > > get a new version of Firefox to compile without atk so I'm very interested > > in getting this to work. > > > > I have run 'pkgdb -F' and tried to remove the dependecy, but have not > > succeeded. I'm not even sure it would be wise to do it... > > Did you remember to execute 'pkgdb -Uu' after cvsup and before portupgrade? So be quite frank, I have no idea! I think I followed all instructions quite litterally. But portupgrade was mentioned in the handbook and the "cookbook" examples I found on the web differed somewhat. I no longer remembered if I did a 'pkgdb -Uu' or not. I there any telltale signs showing in the narrative in my first post that indicates I forgot it? Is it recommendable I run it now then? /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Portupgrade problem
Hi! I just decided to take a deep breath and cvsup some fresh ports. Now, having done that I have run 'portupgrade -ar' and constantly found it to stop some problems. Some ports have failed and been flagged as "configure error" or "install error". Then I have tried to do a manual install of those ports and found that a "make deinstall; make reinstall" have worked, just like the port instructed me to do when it failed. I found it strange that portupgrade didn't do that for me. Having done that I restarted portupgrade and it would proceed a bit before stumbling to a halt again. Now I have reached the end of what I can fix manually, though. For some reason portupgrade stubbornly complains that: "** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! accessibility/atk (atk-1.4.1_1) (port directory error)" And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!? Can I get the atk ports from somewhere? Is it really needed? Why has it dissapeared and why is it still mentioned as a dependency then? If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't get a new version of Firefox to compile without atk so I'm very interested in getting this to work. I have run 'pkgdb -F' and tried to remove the dependecy, but have not succeeded. I'm not even sure it would be wise to do it... Help? /andreas === Emacs = mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or try: [EMAIL PROTECTED] groove out at: http://www.update.uu.se/~ante/ == The choice of a GNU generation! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
