Re: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

[Leonard Zettel]

Even better than the opinion of multilinguists
would be that of those who don't know English,
but came seeking help anyway.
Unfortunatley, it might be a bit tricky
to get such opinions
  -LenZ-
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Re: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

[Leonard Zettel]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 03:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Wekk op n smehl da Kaffe, dood!
> >Effn ah kaint reed et, how dew ah no et
> >aint L kadeh plennen to rep muh guhrl?
> >bee jes lahk duh bestads ta yoose Politch!
> >  -LenZ-
>
> C'est du Klingon ??

Not Klingon; Mercan, my native tongue.
Maybe the spelling could use a little work though:-)
  -LenZ-

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Re: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

[Leonard Zettel]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:28 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Maybe it's just me but the idea of a bunch of English speakers
> sitting around and debating whether or not to permit foreign
> languages on the mailing list is a bit like a bunch of men sitting
> around and debating whether or not to legalize abortion.
>
> It's an issue that so obviously does not affect the discussors
> that it's incredible any of them would believe it possibly affects
> them in any way whatsoever.
>
> Ted
>
Wekk op n smehl da Kaffe, dood!
Effn ah kaint reed et, how dew ah no et
aint L kadeh plennen to rep muh guhrl?
bee jes lahk duh bestads ta yoose Politch!
  -LenZ-

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> >Cc: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
> >Subject: Re: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomoooc ;()
> >
> >
> >On Wednesday 18 January 2006 05:53 am, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net
> >LLC wrote:
> >(snip)> I think you need to look up the word "xenophobe"
> >
> >> <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=xenophobe>
> >>
> >> There is nothing in having an english-language-only list that fits
> >> the definition.
> >
> >Them dam furriners oughta get zivilized & learn Anglish!
> >  -LenZ-
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Re: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

[Leonard Zettel]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 05:53 am, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
(snip)> I think you need to look up the word "xenophobe"
>
> 
>
> There is nothing in having an english-language-only list that fits
> the definition.
>
Them dam furriners oughta get zivilized & learn Anglish!
  -LenZ-
(snip)
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Re: Forth include ?

[Leonard Zettel]

On Monday 26 December 2005 02:33 am, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Dec 25), RW said:
> > On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:16, Leonard Zettel wrote:
> > > This undoubtedly is of no importance whatsoever, natheless this
> > > inquiring mind would like to know.
> > >
> > > The FreeBSD boot loader is written in Forth, which I happen to be
> > > able to read (sort of, anyway). EXCEPT the word "include" occurs in
> > > a number of places. I grant it is fair to middling obvious what it
> > > does. At the same time, I have not been able to find a definition
> > > for include in any of the reference materials I have on Forth. It
> > > is defninetly NOT ANS (or ISO) Forth (which specifies the words
> > > INCLUDE-FILE and INCLUDED).
> > >
> > > So 1) Can anybody give a stack picture for include ?
> > > 2) What version/dialect of Forth does FreeBSD use
> > > and is there any place I can get documentation on it?
> >
> > Looking through the source it appears it's not stricly speaking
> > Forth, but rather FICL.
> >
> > http://ficl.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > FWIW I have seen include in older, pre-ansi,  versions of forth.
>
> It looks like include is defined in
> /sys/boot/ficl/softwords/fileaccess.fr
So it is! Thanks.
Now all we need is a mention in the handbook about where all
this can be found.
  -LenZ-

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Forth include ?

[Leonard Zettel]

This undoubtedly is of no importance whatsoever,
natheless this inquiring mind would like to know.

The FreeBSD boot loader is written in Forth, which
I happen to be able to read (sort of, anyway).
EXCEPT the word "include" occurs in a number
of places. I grant it is fair to middling obvious what it
does. At the same time, I have not been able to find a definition
for include in any of the reference materials I have on
Forth. It is defninetly NOT ANS (or ISO) Forth (which specifies the
words INCLUDE-FILE and INCLUDED).

So 1) Can anybody give a stack picture for include ?
2) What version/dialect of Forth does FreeBSD use
and is there any place I can get documentation on it?

thanks in advance,
  -LenZ-
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Re: What is fsck trying to tell me?

[Leonard Zettel]

On Saturday 10 September 2005 11:20 am, Jan Grant wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Leonard Zettel wrote:
> > When I issue the followinf command:
> >
> > mount /dev/ad1s1c /mnt
> >
> > I get the response
> > WARNING: R/W mount of /mnt denied. filesystem is not clean - run fsck
> > mount: /dev/ad1s1c: Operation not premitted
> >
> > Then when I try
> >
> > fsck /dev/ad1s1c
> >
> > I get
> > fsck: exec fsck_unused for /dev/ad1s1c in sbin: /usr/sbin: No such
> > file or directory
> >
> > BTW, mount -f /dev/ad1s1c /mnt
> >
> > gets me what I expect, but the hassle leading up to it has
> > me scared to death. Now what? punt?
>
> You're using the default "whole slice" partition, ad1s1c. My guess is,
> you're using the default disklabel for that slice. If you look at that
> disklabel,
>
> # disklabel ad1s1
>
> you'll see a line like this:
>
>   c: 1563014250unused0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit
>
Well, sort of.
If I knew what I were doing, I'd be dangerous
So thanks to all, you gave me enough clues to work things through.
Turns out the drive had one FreeBSD slice and a bunch of unused
space. fsk on ad1s1a cleared tings up.
  -LenZ-
> Now, fsck uses external helper utilities to check the consistency of
> various types of filesystem. If the filesystem has an entry in
> /etc/fstab, it'll pull the type from there if you specify the mount
> point. If you specify the device, it looks like fsck is using the
> disklabel rather than actually "tasting" the partition to determine what
> fsck to use.
>
> You can fix this by disklabelling your device and fixing the type of
> partition "c": this should be ok. You can probably also tell fsck
> explicitly what type of filesystem to check, or just invoke the
> appropriate fsck_ufs directly.
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Re: What is fsck trying to tell me?

[Leonard Zettel]

On Saturday 10 September 2005 09:13 am, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Leonard Zettel wrote:
> >On Saturday 10 September 2005 12:44 am, Mike Hernandez wrote:
> >>Have you tried explicitly telling fsck what file system it's going to
> >>be checking?
> >
> >Du What is the syntax for doing that?
>
> Assuming that's a serious question, a serious example
> would be:
>
> $ fsck /var
>
A bit difficult to see how to apply that in the present context.
If I understand things correctly, /var designates a "mount point".
I have my hardware set up to use swappable hard drives,
with the idea of using one drive for backups, mounting it on
/mnt for that purpose.
But when I try to do that, mount won't mount (without -f).
fsck won't fsck either, or at least gives me a message I
don't understand.

My (somewhat shallow) perusal of what documentation I
can find suggests that fsck should be used on an unmounted
file system (to guarantee its "quiescence"). So what, other than
the device designation, do I hand off to fsck?
Or should I force the mount and then use fsck?
   -LenZ- 
> HTH,
>
> Kevin Kinsey
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Re: What is fsck trying to tell me?

[Leonard Zettel]

On Saturday 10 September 2005 12:44 am, Mike Hernandez wrote:
> Have you tried explicitly telling fsck what file system it's going to
> be checking?
>
Du What is the syntax for doing that? 
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What is fsck trying to tell me?

[Leonard Zettel]

When I issue the followinf command:

mount /dev/ad1s1c /mnt

I get the response
WARNING: R/W mount of /mnt denied. filesystem is not clean - run fsck
mount: /dev/ad1s1c: Operation not premitted

Then when I try

fsck /dev/ad1s1c

I get
fsck: exec fsck_unused for /dev/ad1s1c in sbin: /usr/sbin: No such
file or directory

BTW, mount -f /dev/ad1s1c /mnt

gets me what I expect, but the hassle leading up to it has
me scared to death. Now what? punt?
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getting messages from remote mail box

[Leonard Zettel]

All my incoming mail goes to a unix box which
I access over the internet using kmail.

I also occasionally get at it using pine.

Here is my problem: after I use pine
kmail will no longer recognize the presence
of any message that was there when pine
looked at them. How do i reset the message status
so that kmail can handle them as usual?

Thanks
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Re: HP LJ 1100 setup

[Leonard Zettel]

On Sunday 13 March 2005 10:03 pm, Chris wrote:
> Any ideas on how to setup an HPLJ 1100 using either cups or lpd?

My Laserjet 1100 works quite nicely after I followed the
instructions in the handbook chapter on printing
and then installed ghostscript.
Also needed the tip published here recently on dealing
with interrupt storms.
   -LenZ-

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Re: restore

[Leonard Zettel]

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 06:02 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote:
OK, for the record:

> > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 04:36 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > > > The production machine is working just fine.
> > > > All the FreeBSD stuff is on ad0s1, a 40 GB hard drive.
> > > > I have been using a 120 GB drive on ad0s1 for
> > > > backup, and have (apparently successfully) done
> > > > a dump of production / and /usr.
> > > >
> > > > So, I fire up the development machine with
> > > > the 120 GB drive as the slave of controller 1,
> > > > what I would like to be the main drive of the
> > > > development system (a 40GB hard drive) as
> > > > the master of controller 0, and disk 2 of the
> > > > Free BSD CD-ROMs in the CD-ROM drive.
> > > >
> > > > Up comes beastie and I boot.
> > > > I select "fixit" from the menu, followed by alt-F4.
> > > >
> > > > Then:
> > > > mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt (to make the new root accessible to
> > > >  the system).
> > > > mkdir backup   (make a mount point for the 120GB
> > > > drive) mount /dev/ad3s1a /backup (mount the 120 GB drive)
> > > > newfs /dev/ad0s1a   (start the new root with a clean sheet
> > > >   prior to doing a retore)
> > > >
> > > > BUT instead I get a diagnostic as follows:
> > > > fstab: /etc/fstab:0: No such file or directory
> > > > newfs: /dev/ad0s1a: failed to open disk for writing
> > > >
> > > > Could anybody tell me what I *should* be doing (bonus
> > > > extra points for expalining why :-) )?"
> > >
> > > Well, I got a little confused as to which machine has which drive[s]
> > > Especially when you say early on that everything on the production
> > > machine is on ad0s1 - a 40 GB drive and then say you are doing
> > > backups to ad0s1 - a 120 GB drive.
> >
> > Typo -sorry about that; the 120G is ad1s1a when it is on
> > the production machine.
>
> Figured that was probable.
>
> > > That sounds like you have
> > > two ad0 drives on the machine at the same time.   I suspect something
> > > is missing of twisted in the description.
> > >
> > > But, farther down seems to be your real problem.
> > > The first question is did you look at the boot messages when you
> > > came up in fixit and are sure that ad0 and ad3 are the devices you
> > > need to be dealing with?
> >
> > df verifies that ad0 is the 40G and ad3 is the 120G on the
> > development machine.
> >
> > As I understand it, ad3 is the slave of the second IDE controller (1). 
> > It gets to be slave because the drive jumpers are set
> > that way, so the 120 can be slave on the first controller on the
> > production machine (ad1).  That way I can swap without redoing
> > the jumper.
>
> Could be.  My only IDE machine I have never had more than one disk on.
> SCSI is more orderly.   I would just check the messages as it boots or
> look at dmesg(8) and verify the device names.
>
> > > I kind of would have expected ad0 and ad1
> > > or maybe ad0 and ad2, but I am not used to mucking with IDE
> > > controllers.
> > >
> > > Next, why did you try and mount /dev/ad0s1a and then newfs /dev/ad0s1a
> > > That should not work at all.   You don't newfs a mounted partition.
> >
> > Gee, I didn't know that.  It wasn't clear when I read the handbook
> > or man pages.  May give me something new to try--
>
> That is probably your main problem.
>
Doing the newfs on the unmounted partition worked the way I
expected it to.
Once more, thanks to all.
  -LenZ-

> > > Second, that would wipe what is on there - maybe you want that.
> >
> > I do indeed want that.
> >
> > > I don't know why it complains about fstab at that point.  The fixit
> > > does not create one, but I don't see where it is needed for what you
> > > are trying.
> >
> > Makes two of us.
>
> I've been fooled before.   Most days.
>
> jerry
>
> > > Maybe, just doing the wrong thing with newfs got it
> > > to trying to check stuff.
> > >
> > > Anyway, There are some thoughts of things to work out.  Maybe
> > > they will give you a clue of what to try next.
> > >
> > > jerry
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > > >   -LenZ-
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Re: restore

[Leonard Zettel]

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 04:36 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > In which it is proven yet again that I don't know what
> > in blazes I'm doing-.
> >
> > I am a great fan of swappable hard drives.
> > i have two machines I plan to use for FreeBSD.
> > Let's call them the production machine and the
> > development machine.
> >
> > The production machine is working just fine.
> > All the FreeBSD stuff is on ad0s1, a 40 GB hard drive.
> > I have been using a 120 GB drive on ad0s1 for
> > backup, and have (apparently successfully) done
> > a dump of production / and /usr.
> >
> > So, I fire up the development machine with
> > the 120 GB drive as the slave of controller 1,
> > what I would like to be the main drive of the
> > development system (a 40GB hard drive) as
> > the master of controller 0, and disk 2 of the
> > Free BSD CD-ROMs in the CD-ROM drive.
> >
> > Up comes beastie and I boot.
> > I select "fixit" from the menu, followed by alt-F4.
> >
> > Then:
> > mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt (to make the new root accessible to
> >  the system).
> > mkdir backup   (make a mount point for the 120GB drive)
> > mount /dev/ad3s1a /backup (mount the 120 GB drive)
> > newfs /dev/ad0s1a   (start the new root with a clean sheet
> >   prior to doing a retore)
> >
> > BUT instead I get a diagnostic as follows:
> > fstab: /etc/fstab:0: No such file or directory
> > newfs: /dev/ad0s1a: failed to open disk for writing
> >
> > Could anybody tell me what I *should* be doing (bonus
> > extra points for expalining why :-) )?"
>
> Well, I got a little confused as to which machine has which drive[s]
> Especially when you say early on that everything on the production
> machine is on ad0s1 - a 40 GB drive and then say you are doing
> backups to ad0s1 - a 120 GB drive.   
Typo -sorry about that; the 120G is ad1s1a when it is on
the production machine.

> That sounds like you have 
> two ad0 drives on the machine at the same time.   I suspect something
> is missing of twisted in the description.
>
> But, farther down seems to be your real problem.
> The first question is did you look at the boot messages when you
> came up in fixit and are sure that ad0 and ad3 are the devices you
> need to be dealing with?  
df verifies that ad0 is the 40G and ad3 is the 120G on the
development machine. 

As I understand it, ad3 is the slave of the second IDE controller (1).  It 
gets to be slave because the drive jumpers are set
that way, so the 120 can be slave on the first controller on the
production machine (ad1).  That way I can swap without redoing 
the jumper.

> I kind of would have expected ad0 and ad1 
> or maybe ad0 and ad2, but I am not used to mucking with IDE controllers.
>
> Next, why did you try and mount /dev/ad0s1a and then newfs /dev/ad0s1a
> That should not work at all.   You don't newfs a mounted partition.

Gee, I didn't know that.  It wasn't clear when I read the handbook
or man pages.  May give me something new to try--
> Second, that would wipe what is on there - maybe you want that.
>

I do indeed want that.  

> I don't know why it complains about fstab at that point.  The fixit
> does not create one, but I don't see where it is needed for what you
> are trying.   
Makes two of us.

> Maybe, just doing the wrong thing with newfs got it 
> to trying to check stuff.
>
> Anyway, There are some thoughts of things to work out.  Maybe
> they will give you a clue of what to try next.
>
> jerry
>
Thanks.
> >   -LenZ-
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restore

[Leonard Zettel]

In which it is proven yet again that I don't know what
in blazes I'm doing-.

I am a great fan of swappable hard drives.
i have two machines I plan to use for FreeBSD.
Let's call them the production machine and the
development machine.

The production machine is working just fine.
All the FreeBSD stuff is on ad0s1, a 40 GB hard drive.
I have been using a 120 GB drive on ad0s1 for
backup, and have (apparently successfully) done
a dump of production / and /usr.

So, I fire up the development machine with
the 120 GB drive as the slave of controller 1,
what I would like to be the main drive of the
development system (a 40GB hard drive) as
the master of controller 0, and disk 2 of the 
Free BSD CD-ROMs in the CD-ROM drive.

Up comes beastie and I boot.
I select "fixit" from the menu, followed by alt-F4.

Then:
mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt (to make the new root accessible to 
 the system).
mkdir backup   (make a mount point for the 120GB drive)
mount /dev/ad3s1a /backup (mount the 120 GB drive)
newfs /dev/ad0s1a   (start the new root with a clean sheet 
  prior to doing a retore)

BUT instead I get a diagnostic as follows:
fstab: /etc/fstab:0: No such file or directory
newfs: /dev/ad0s1a: failed to open disk for writing

Could anybody tell me what I *should* be doing (bonus
extra points for expalining why :-) )?"
  -LenZ-
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Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

[Leonard Zettel]

On Sunday 27 February 2005 04:01 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> John writes:
> > I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running
> > it by hand.
>
> It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with.
>
> > How much space have you got to play with?
>
> About 2 GB total remaining on /usr.  Just installing X stuff gobbled up
> a few hundred megabytes, it seems.
>
> > If space is tight, running make
> > distclean after make install helps, as does periodically deleting the
> > contents of /usr/ports/distfiles
>
> Does pkg_add do this?
>
> > [0] if you mean, by "pull the index from an ftp site" cd /usr/ports &&
> > make index
>
> I meant running /stand/sysinstall and selecting an FTP site as the
> "installation media" for the software.  It always downloads some sort of
> index when I do that, which I assume is an up-to-date list of all the
> ports available.

Being somewhat of a newvie, I should probably not be saying anything,
but that's the assumption that nailed you.

If I understand the situation correctly, what you got was information
on *packages* available when the OS version was released, a subset
of available ports.  And this time around, that list was not in a totally
self-consistent state.

My own experiences have given me a definite bias toward using the
ports system to compile stuff to be added to my system rather than
going with the binary packages.  I get the impression that many
port maintainers who are fairly careful about keeping their port
versions workable and patched only give a relative lick and promise
to their packages.
   -LenZ-
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Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

[Leonard Zettel]

On Thursday 19 August 2004 07:46 pm, Mattias Björk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Leonard Zettel wrote:
(snip)
> > Duh.  All this newbie can add is that of all the dropped balls
> > and blind alleys I have experienced wrestling with FreeBSD,
> > problems with my four port KVM switch have not been among
> > them. Make of said switch is lost in the mists of time - it is
> > whatever CompUSA sells.  I have a Logitech track ball;
> > It and the keyboard have functioned well through various
> > permutations of 5.1, 5.2, and 4.10, native and under KDE.
> >   -LenZ-
>
> What you are saying In short is that you did not experince any problems?
>
Correct.  Very occasionally keyboard input would not show up on either
the FreeBSD box or the Windows XP box, although the mouse still worked.
Jiggling the cables cured that in all cases.  Zero mouse problems.
   -LenZ-
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Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

[Leonard Zettel]

On Thursday 19 August 2004 04:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: thrawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:18 am
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just brought this KVM switch:
> > http://www.level1.com/products3.php?sklop=20&id=590430
> >
> > But Im having major problems with getting the mouse to work under
> > FreeBSD. Even the keyboard does not work sometimes. This KVM switch
> > has
> > support for hotkey and also supports emulation on both mouse and
> > keyboard.
> > When I boot up my system and see the BIOS on the computer the
> > keyboard
> > works just fine. Then when it continues to boot and comes to the
> > loader,
> > it still works. And the it starts to load the kernel. But then when
> > i
> > get to the login prompt the keyboard does not work.
> >
> > And sometimes even thought I stay with the computer the hole boot
> > process I can't even use the keyboard. So I have to use ssh to
> > login to
> > the computer and make it reboot to regain the keyboard. I have also
> > tried to change the cables but I get the same results. And It works
> > with
> > no problems under Windows XP Pro.
> >
> > The system that im using is FreeBSD 5.2.1-p9, at least on this system.
> >
> > I  have also two other computers that Im running FreeBSD-stable on.
> > On
> > one of my FreeBSD-stable machines I have hade a working mouse under
> > X
> > Windows System (Xorg latest from ports).
> >
> > But then I rebooted the system and when I started xdm, it found the
> > mouse but when I move it around It didn't move like it should. It
> > took
> > some seconds before it moved and it did not move like it should,
> > jumps
> > several ramdom cm/inches on the screen (Perhaps in the direction
> > that I
> > move the mouse im not sure). Its on usable in other words.
> >
> > I have also tryied to use moused under FreeBSD but I get the same
> > fault/problem. I also have a problem if I do not have this machine
> > selected when I boot. Then when I switch to it when the boot of the
> > FreeBSD system has complete, The screen on the monitor just blinks.
> >
> > Still the keyboard works because I can press two times Left Ctrl
> > and
> > then 1 to 4 to change the computer Im controlling. This I can not
> > do
> > with the FreeBSD 5.2.1-p9 system I can only see the screen but have
> > to
> > change the computer im controlling by pressing the button on the
> > switch box.
> >
> > I have tried to remove the cables and put them back again. But that
> > does
> > not help, the only solution I can see is to reboot the system and
> > let it
> > boot with it selected. I have also booted up with the mouse
> > directly
> > connected to the computer. Then when the system boot was completed
> > I
> > moved the mouse around to see that it did work. After that I
> > plugged
> > back the cable from the switch in to the computers mouse port. And
> > the
> > plugged the mouse back in the switch box, that did not work either.
> >
> > I have also added flags to both psm0 and atkbd in my kernel config:
> >
> > # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
> > device  atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD
> > device  atkbd0  at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x0
> > device  psm0at atkbdc? irq 12 flags 0x0
> >
> > I have also tried with the flags set to 0x100 on both atkbd0 and
> > psm0,
> > but that doesn't seem to make any diffrance. I have done this on my
> > FreeBSD 5.2.1-p9 box as well. I have also changed it in:
> >
> > /boot/device.hints
> >
> > But I don't get it working correctly either by that.
> >
> > Does anybody have a clue or have hade any similar problems and/or
> > who
> > could shine some light on this problem?
> >
> > Mvh Mattias Björk
>
> Aloha Mattias
>
> This all sounds familiar. I too had a lot of trouble
> with a KVM switch. Actually, I tried two with the same
> problem you are alluding to.
>
> I came to the conclusion that the mouse will not work
> through the KVM switch using FBSD, or at least I never
> got it to.
>
Duh.  All this newbie can add is that of all the dropped balls
and blind alleys I have experienced wrestling with FreeBSD,
problems with my four port KVM switch have not been among
them. Make of said switch is lost in the mists of time - it is
whatever CompUSA sells.  I have a Logitech track ball;
It and the keyboard have functioned well through various
permutations of 5.1, 5.2, and 4.10, native and under KDE.
  -LenZ-

> I have two computers that are both running 5.2.1
>
> I have connected a mouse directly to each computer.
> I still had to shutdown both computers and connect
> the cables for the monitor and keyboard from each to
> the KVM. I also connected and old mouse to the output
> of the KVM.
>
> With all this connected, I then powered up both computers. All seems to
> work fine with the inconvenience of having to use 2 meese. I seldom have to
> go into one
> fo the computers, so I can live with it.
>
> This is probably not the answer you were looking for
> but you were also look

Re: o uid

[Leonard Zettel]

On Friday 25 July 2003 11:51, Joshua Lokken wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> > Leonard Zettel
> > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 8:38 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: o uid
> >
> >
> > Nestled among the messages on startup I am getting something
> > like the following:
> > 0 uids:
> > root # (which I expect)
> > toor # (which I didn't)
> >
> > Is toor something to worry about? If not, any idea where
> > it came from?
>
> This may provide some explanation:
>
> http://www.freebsddiary.org/toor.php
>
Oh. deng yew
  -LenZ-
> Joshua

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o uid

[Leonard Zettel]

Nestled among the messages on startup I am getting something
like the following:
0 uids:
root # (which I expect)
toor # (which I didn't)

Is toor something to worry about? If not, any idea where
it came from?
  -LenZ-

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Interacting with windoze machines on the local network

[Leonard Zettel]

I have a local ethernet network with:
One FreeBSD box
One Windows XP professional box
Two Windows ME boxes (one of which is the inernet firewall, using
Sygate)..

I would like to be able to access the hardware and file systems
of the windows boxes from the FreeBSD system, if for no other 
reason than expediting the task of making the FreeBSD system
my main computing resource..

Is Samba still the recommended way to do this?

Is Mickeysquish's phasing out of NETBUI going to be
a problem?

Are there any other reasonable alternatives?
  -LenZ-

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Re: wysisyg printing of web pages

[Leonard Zettel]

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 23:32, Vlad D. Markov wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 01:02:34 +
>
> Leonard Zettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a quite vanilla installation of 5.1 running.
> > Plaintext printing to my laserjet 1100 is working pretty well.
> > I have KDE set up and am impressed with the performance
> > of the Konqueror web browser.
> > BUT when I click the Konqueror print button what comes out
> > is an almost unending bunch of ACII formatting specifications.
> >
> > Obviously I have to do more to my system configuration
> > and/or install a package or two.
> > Can anybody point me to the information I need?
> >   -LenZ-
>
> It is sending postscript commands to the printer. You will need a
> ghostscript printfilter for your printer. I like apsfilter, others like
> cups, others handcraft their own.

After the usual heartburn, I managed to adapt 
/usr/share/examples/printing/ifp to do the job satisfactorily,
with -sDEVICE=ljet4d.

Thanks to all who gave me the clues I needed.
  -LenZ-

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wysisyg printing of web pages

[Leonard Zettel]

I have a quite vanilla installation of 5.1 running.
Plaintext printing to my laserjet 1100 is working pretty well.
I have KDE set up and am impressed with the performance
of the Konqueror web browser.
BUT when I click the Konqueror print button what comes out 
is an almost unending bunch of ACII formatting specifications.

Obviously I have to do more to my system configuration
and/or install a package or two.
Can anybody point me to the information I need?
  -LenZ-

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