Lexmark Z23 USB Printer

2002-11-12 Thread Weston M. Price
Hello,
I am trying to get my FreeBSD 4.7 Stable system working with my Z23 Lexmark 
printer. I enabled support for USB printers in the kernel and was able to 
rebuild and install with no problem. dmesg correctly reports the existence of 
the device. However, I am sort of stuck at this point. I am not really sure 
what I should do next, the handbook does not explicitly reference USB 
printers. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate 
it. It would be nice to get this working since it is such a cheap printer. 
The alternative would be for me to install the printer on my WindowsXP box 
(really my girlfriends machine) and print across the network.

Regards,

Weston

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Re: linux unreal tournament 2003 -- any success?

2002-11-11 Thread Weston M. Price
Could someone explain how you got this working. I downloaded the file, did the 
installation but at the end of the routine I get a 

ELF Binary Type "0" unknown

error. I really would like to get this working, at least to test the new 
NVIDIA drivers on my machine. 

Regards,

Weston

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> > > Just downloaded the new NVIDIA FreeBSD driver and tested it with
> > > quakeforge, tuxkart, etc. Seems to work.
> > >
> > > So has anyone tried running the linux version of Unreal Tournament
> > > 2003 on FreeBSD? I'd be interested in any success stories.
> >
> > not yet :-/
>
> The Linux Quake III demo works with the new driver. I'd test the Linux
> Unreal Tournament 2003 demo but I can't seem to actually download it.
>
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NVIDIA Drivers Forum

2002-11-09 Thread Weston M. Price
Hello,
Is this the correct forum to ask questions about the new NVIDIA drivers or 
has a specific group been created for this? 


Regards,


Weston

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Re: recovering vi editor sessions????

2002-10-29 Thread Weston M. Price
Thanks to Kevin for this

I delete all the contents of vi.recover and now everything is fine. I don't 
quite understand when sendmail was coming up unless one of the vi files was a 
mail message

Thanks again guys. 

Weston

On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:04 am, Weston M. Price wrote:
> Ok,
>   I reviewed rc.conf and the appropriate flag was inded set. However, I
> removed all other delta references to sendmail. The behavior still exits.
> The specific error message is the classic:
>
>   Unable to qualify my own domain name (jerusalem)...
>
> This continues for awhile until sendmail finally decides ot use the short
> name and then boots.
>
> I really don't get it. Are there any other network daemons that require the
> use of sendmail to operate properly?
>
> Regards,
>
> Weston
>
> On Tuesday 29 October 2002 09:35 am, DaleCo Help Desk wrote:
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Weston M. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Toomas Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:08 AM
> > Subject: Re: recovering vi editor sessions
> >
> >
> > I understand the sendmail error message, what i don't understand is
> > that it
> > seems to be preceeded by the recovering vi editor sessions message.
> > No, I
> > specifically disabled sendmail in rc.conf as well.
> >
> > Weston
> >
> > So you're wanting to 'rid yourself' of the vi-recover message(s)?
> >
> > Kevin Kinsey
> > DaleCo, S.P.
> >
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Re: recovering vi editor sessions????

2002-10-29 Thread Weston M. Price
Ok,
I reviewed rc.conf and the appropriate flag was inded set. However, I removed 
all other delta references to sendmail. The behavior still exits. The 
specific error message is the classic:

Unable to qualify my own domain name (jerusalem)...

This continues for awhile until sendmail finally decides ot use the short name 
and then boots. 

I really don't get it. Are there any other network daemons that require the 
use of sendmail to operate properly? 

Regards,

Weston

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> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:08 AM
> Subject: Re: recovering vi editor sessions
>
>
> I understand the sendmail error message, what i don't understand is
> that it
> seems to be preceeded by the recovering vi editor sessions message.
> No, I
> specifically disabled sendmail in rc.conf as well.
>
> Weston
>
> So you're wanting to 'rid yourself' of the vi-recover message(s)?
>
> Kevin Kinsey
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Re: recovering vi editor sessions????

2002-10-29 Thread Weston M. Price
I understand the sendmail error message, what i don't understand is that it 
seems to be preceeded by the recovering vi editor sessions message. No, I 
specifically disabled sendmail in rc.conf as well. 

Weston

On Tuesday 29 October 2002 08:27 am, Toomas Aas wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Recently I have noticed some strange behavior when booting up my FreeBSD
> > 4.7 stable system. At the very end of the boot sequence I get the
> > following message:
> >
> > recovering vi editor sessions:
> >
> > After a few moments the sytem suddely informs me that sendmail cannot
> > resolve its hostname. I hit Ctrl-C and the system completes the boot
> > sequence in a normal fashion. I tried searching the mailing list archives
> > but there does not appear to be any sort of reference to this type of
> > behavior. I looked through the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for any
> > reference to this sort of thing and I found nothing.
> > Strangely enough, I do not have sendmail enabled on my system, in fact,
> > I specifically inform the system not to build sendmail when I do a
> > buildworld.
>
> Well, somehow sendmail still manages to (attempt to) get loaded. If you
> don't update sendmail during buildworld then it may be the version that
> got installed when you first installed FreeBSD.
>
> Is there a "sendmail_enable" line in /etc/rc.conf?
>
> What the error message tries to tell you is that your IP address cannot
> be resolved to DNS name.


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recovering vi editor sessions????

2002-10-29 Thread Weston M. Price
Hello,
Recently I have noticed some strange behavior when booting up my FreeBSD 4.7 
stable system. At the very end of the boot sequence I get the following 
message: 

recovering vi editor sessions: 

After a few moments the sytem suddely informs me that sendmail cannot resolve 
its hostname. I hit Ctrl-C and the system completes the boot sequence in a 
normal fashion. I tried searching the mailing list archives but there does 
not appear to be any sort of reference to this type of behavior. I looked 
through the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for any reference to this sort of 
thing and I found nothing. 
Strangely enough, I do not have sendmail enabled on my system, in fact, I 
specifically inform the system not to build sendmail when I do a buildworld. 
Any help in this matter would be appreciated. The rest of the system (after 
the boot sequence) does not appear to be comprised. 

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Re: How UNIX was built?

2002-10-11 Thread Weston M. Price

You could also take a look at the first chapter of the The Design of the Unix 
Operating System by Bach. This chapter has a pretty decent section on the 
history of Unix. 

Weston

On Friday 11 October 2002 02:44 pm, Ricardo Dimov wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> Is there some doc with Unix architecture/design?
> Is there some doc comparing BSD-UNIX with Windows Server?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Ricardo Dimov
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Re: Jakarta-tomcat4

2002-10-11 Thread Weston M. Price

Do you have the Linux compatibility libraries installed and loaded when trying 
to run Tomcat? 

Weston

On Friday 11 October 2002 04:33 pm, Tom Frontera wrote:
> Where can I get help installing Jakarta-tomcat4?  Everything installs fine,
> but I get an elf binary error when I try to start the daemon.  Any help
> would be appriciated.
>
> -tom
>
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Native JDK 1.3.1 Linux JDK 1.3.1 vs JDK 1.4.1 inconsistencies

2002-10-10 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,
As some of you on this list know, I have been tinkering with a variety of 
JDK's on FreeBSD in large part to get the Eclipse Platform running with any 
sort of consistency. Over the course of a couple of weeks I have found the 
following issues with each of the JDK's:

Native FreeBSD JDK 1.3.1

Under Eclipse, the native build of the 1.3.1 JDK refuses to allow the user to 
commit a Java project to the file system. When the user attempts to create a 
new project, the IDE responds with an error message that states that the 
.project file (the metadata file used by Eclipse to track project changes) is 
read only. This is the ONLY JDK where this problem is manifest. 
Further, when using this JDK none of the local filesystems appear in the file 
browser dialogs. In fact, as far as Eclipse is concerned the local file 
system does not appear to exist at all. 

Linux-SUN JDK 1.3.1
This is the only IDE I have been able to get to work with Eclipse with any 
sort of consistency. The above problem does not exist and you can actually 
open the help brower, perform automatic software updates over the web, etc. 
Also, certain plugins that I have added to the environment (JBoss, Weblogic 
integration work fine). 

Linux-Sun JDK 1.4.1
This one is the most problematic and inconsistent of the bunch. While the 
read only problem does not exist, any access of the help system, software 
management etc brings the IDE to a crashing halt. Similarly, this JDK is dog 
slow. Certain actions with the above JDK's can be performed in half the time. 
Also, while the above JDK's only start one instance of the VM to run eclipse, 
the 1.4.1 JDK causes no less than 10-12 instances of the VM to start. 
Also, JBoss 3.0.0 crashes upon startup when using this JDK. 

I have seen similar types of behavior with a variety of Java based 
applications on FreeBSD. Most notably is JEdit when used in conjunction with 
the native JDK. JEdit crashes due to file system errors. 
Needless to say this is a bewildering set of problems. I have a notion that 
the behavior with the native JDK has something to do with the Java security 
policy. At the very least the evident discrepancies across the aforementioned 
JDK's definitely give one cause for concern. 
One other issue that I just don't understand is with the Linux compatibility 
libraries. On both the native FreeBSD and 1.4.1 JDK Eclipse specifically 
needs either the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to be set, or ldconfig -m 
/compat/linux/lib to be run to start at all. However, with the Linux-Sun JDK 
1.3.1 this is NOT NECESSARY. I just don't get it?

I am not really sure if this is the right forum to post this message, it may 
very be more appropriate for the ports list. Any advice on these issues would 
be appreciated. I was also wondering if there was a specific mailing list 
dedicated to Java running on FreeBSD? This might be a good idea in order to 
reduce traffic on questions.


I am running 4.7 with the Linux 7.1_1 base. 

Regards,

Weston





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Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-09 Thread Weston M. Price

Also, if you have to use JDK 1.4.1 you should make sure that your Linux Binary 
Compatibility (ie Linux Base) is up to date. 

Weston

On Thursday 10 October 2002 05:15 am, paul beard wrote:
> Weston M. Price wrote:
> > Yeah, that could be the issue. The native JDK is at
> >
> > /usr/ports/java/jdk13
>
> well, the application requires 1.4. Looks like I'm SOL for now.
>
> Thanks for the help.


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Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-09 Thread Weston M. Price

But wait, why does the application require 1.4? What in the code dictates use 
of the 1.4 JDK? 

Weston

On Thursday 10 October 2002 05:15 am, paul beard wrote:
> Weston M. Price wrote:
> > Yeah, that could be the issue. The native JDK is at
> >
> > /usr/ports/java/jdk13
>
> well, the application requires 1.4. Looks like I'm SOL for now.
>
> Thanks for the help.


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Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-09 Thread Weston M. Price

Yeah, that could be the issue. The native JDK is at 

/usr/ports/java/jdk13

You will have to download the linux binary for the JDK to build on FreeBSD, 
however, after the JDK build procedure is completed the linux binary can go 
away. If you cd to the above directory and run

make install clean

The build script will point you to the correct location as to where to 
download the file. 

As a point of curiosity, I have indeed noticed numerous inconsistencies and 
problems across all JDK's for FreeBSD. However, the native JDK 1.3 has proven 
to be the best among those offered. 

Regards,

Weston

On Thursday 10 October 2002 05:02 am, paul beard wrote:
> Weston M. Price wrote:
> > In earlier versions on FreeBSD I assume.
>
> No, in earlier JDKs.
>
> > I have noticed a number of instabilities on 1.4.1 on FreeBSD. Have you
> > tried using the native JDK?
>
> I didn't realize there was one: I was using the 1.4.1 version in
> ports.


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Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-09 Thread Weston M. Price

In earlier versions on FreeBSD I assume. 

I have noticed a number of instabilities on 1.4.1 on FreeBSD. Have you tried 
using the native JDK? 

Weston

On Thursday 10 October 2002 04:47 am, paul beard wrote:
> Weston M. Price wrote:
> > Could you be more specific regarding the Java application. First off,
> > what version of the JDK(s) are you using? What type of application is it?
> > Please provide a few more details.
>
> Yes, of course.
>
> java version "1.4.1"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1-b21)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1-b21, mixed mode)
>
> The application consists of a webcrawler, a parsing engine and a
> database, similar to a search engine. In earlier versions of the
> JDK and the application, it ran well enough to display an admin
> UI: this version fails to get that far.


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Re: Please help me

2002-10-09 Thread Weston M. Price

Actually I believe it is an acronym for the set of key commands that was 
required to affect a regular expression search in vi. 

Weston

On Thursday 10 October 2002 03:08 am, Toby Irvine wrote:
> I have one question for you.  I have been looking to find out what the
> command/utility "grep" actually means or stands for.  I have searched the
> net and keep finding the same answer, which I have been told is wrong.
> Could you please help me out and let me know.  Someone told me that only an
> old school unix person would be able to tell me.  Please help?
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
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>
>
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Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-09 Thread Weston M. Price

Could you be more specific regarding the Java application. First off, what 
version of the JDK(s) are you using? What type of application is it? Please 
provide a few more details. 

Regards,

Weston

On Thursday 10 October 2002 04:04 am, paul beard wrote:
> Two questions, perhaps I should break them out.
>
> First off, why, when I use truss(1) to look at what a program is
> doing, does it look for /etc/malloc.conf? Never finds it, carries
> on anyway.
>
> Second, some friends of mine have a java application that runs
> under the Leading Brand, Solaris and Linux, but I can't get
> anywhere with it in FreeBSD.
>
> The most recent version dumped core when a non-root user runs it.
> Root gets to see it spawn half a dozen processes and suck up all
> the CPU, to no practical purpose.


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Java IDE -- Finally some success under FreeBSD

2002-10-09 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,
For the Java developers that are interested, I was able to download and 
install JBuilder community edition from Borland. It runs fine under the 
native JDK 1.3 for FreeBSD. However, it dies under both linux JDK emulations. 


Regards,

Weston

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Re: Jakarta-Tomcat + Apache

2002-10-09 Thread Weston M. Price

Have you build the native JDK for FreeBSD? If not, you can build this from the 
ports tree. However, you will have to download the linux version of JDK 1.3 
to do the build, however, once the native JDK is build and installed you can 
remove the linux jdk. 

Tomcat, and most other J2EE enabled servers rely on the environment variable 
JAVA_HOME to be set. You can do this like

export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/the/native/jdk

Once this is done, Tomcat will work with the native jdk. If you are interested 
in working with JSP/Servlet/EJB related technologies, I would recommend 
looking at JBoss the fully complient J2EE open source application server. 

Regards,

Weston



On Wednesday 09 October 2002 07:44 pm, Peter wrote:
> Hello,
>   Quick question: I thought FreeBSD worked out a deal with Sun to get native
> java support...so..I'm trying to install jakarta-tomcat4 [from ports to get
> .jsp and java servelts support]...why is the port requiring a linux base
> and a whole lot of other linux/redhat 7.1 stuff?  Am I doing something
> wrong/ is there another better/faster way to get .jsp/java servel support
> for apache2?  I remember I installed apache1 and jakart-tomcat a while
> ago...and I don't think it needed all that linuxbase/redhat/linux
> compatibility stuff.
>
>   Not Understanding a lot of stuff.
>   Peter
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Re: Linux JDK 1.3 necessary to compile JDK 1.3.1 source from Sun?

2002-10-07 Thread Weston M. Price

You can indeed just use the Linux JDK, or even better, you can install the 
port of the 1.4.1 jdk to get the latest and greatest JDK. However BE 
FORWARNED THERE ARE PROBLEMS WITH JAVA ON FREEBSD WITH ANY JDK THAT YOU USE. 

If you want to use an IDE other than emacs you may have some problems.I 
found this aspect of FreeBSD maddening almost to the point of murderWorse 
than this, most people on the FreeBSD questions list (or at least the one's 
that I see posting regularly) are not Java developers. 

The FreeBSD port of the JDK is incredibly fast because it is a native binary. 
With the Linux port you always are executing through an emulation library. 
However, since you are just starting out it really shouldn't make much of a 
difference. I would suggest install the JDK1.4.1 port. You can find this in

/usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk14

You will still have to download the binary file from Sun's site, put doing a 
make all install clean in the aforementioned directory will tell you where to 
get the file. 

Regards,

Weston



On Monday 07 October 2002 08:37 pm, Mark Haney wrote:
> I'm learning Java, and would like to set up a Java
> development environment on FreeBSD. In the article "Java
> and Jakarta Tomcat on FreeBSD"
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/index.html
> as well as one other article I came across, the instructions
> say to first install the Linux JDK. Then, build the JDK 1.3.1
> source from SUN after downloading the patchset from
> http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk13.html
>
> Why is it necessary to install the Linux JDK before building the JDK from
> source and the patchset?
>
> Can I just use the Linux JDK?
>
> Can I build from source and the patchset without first installing the Linux
> version?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Mark
>
>
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XDMCP -- FreeBSD / Solaris -- will this work?????

2002-10-04 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,
I have question regarding the nature of XDMCP. What I would like to do is
 sit down at my FreeBSD workstation and have the option of logging into my
 Solaris machine or my FreeBSD machine via XDMCP. I use KDE 3.0.3 as my
 desktop manager and I can login to my FreeBSD machine via the Solaris
 machine but not the other way around. I am not really sure if I am even
 trying to do something remotely possible. I mean, I would think it would
 should be viable because I can go one way, but not the other. I know that
 this question is not necessarily germane to this list, however, if anyone
 has this sort of configuration I would appreciate any help you can provide.
 Thanks.


Weston




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XDMCP -- FreeBSD / Solaris -- will this work?????

2002-10-04 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,
I have question regarding the nature of XDMCP. What I would like to do is sit 
down at my FreeBSD workstation and have the option of logging into my Solaris 
machine or my FreeBSD machine via XDMCP. I use KDE 3.0.3 as my desktop 
manager and I can login to my FreeBSD machine via the Solaris machine but not 
the other way around. I am not really sure if I am even trying to do 
something remotely possible. I mean, I would think it would should be viable 
because I can go one way, but not the other. I know that this question is not 
necessarily germane to this list, however, if anyone has this sort of 
configuration I would appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks. 


Weston

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Re: JDK13

2002-10-02 Thread Weston M. Price

Actually, for binaries aka java, javac the soft link should work just fine. 
The CLASSPATH variable only comes into play when actually executing class 
files within the JVM, thus, the variable really has nothing to do with binary 
execution. 

Many Java applications require the JAVA_HOME variable to be set to run 
properly. I don't know what shell you use but for the Korn shell you would 
put this in your .profile

JAVA_HOME=/path/to/where/you/installed/the/jdk. 
export JAVA_HOME. 

Regards,

Weston

On Wednesday 02 October 2002 06:03 pm, Matt Smith wrote:
> either add /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/bin/ to your PATH, or simply make
> soft-links (or hard links, at your preference):
>
> ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/bin/java /usr/local/bin/java
>
> HOWEVER, I believe (from my minimal Java experience) that the Java
> utilities will look for CLASS_PATHs and other java "Stuff" relative to
> location of java binaries.  Executing via link from another location
> (like /usr/local/bin) may cause issues.
> But again, my Java experience is minimal, and I may be waaay off.
> Perhaps someone on this list can clarify?
> -Matt
>
> On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 13:29, MET wrote:
> > Is there any way that I could make java and javac global commands like
> > other programs?  So that way I can be in any folder and type java and
> > have it execute the file through the VM?
> >
> > ~ Matthew
> >
> > P.S. I'm picky but thanks a lot
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Matt Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:19 PM
> > To: MET
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: JDK13
> >
> >
> > try:
> >
> > /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/bin/java
> >
> > and
> >
> > /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/bin/javac
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 13:15, MET wrote:
> > > So I installed the JDK13 and would like to start coding.  However,
> > > java and javac commands seem to do nothing.  Do I have to make them
> > > alias's to the programs (didn't actually check if they're installed)
> > > or something else?
> > >
> > > Ideas?
> > >
> > > ~ Matthew
> > >
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Ksim on FreeBSD

2002-10-02 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone is running Ksim on FreeBSD? I am running into 
certain compilation problems with the source code. I keep getting the 
following error:

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../ksim -I/usr/local/include 
-I/usr/X11R6/include -pthread -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_THREAD_SAFE 
-Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wbad-function-cast -Wundef -Wall -pedantic 
-W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -O2 -fno-exceptions 
-fno-check-new -c common.cpp -Wp,-MD,.deps/common.TPlo  -fPIC -DPIC -o 
.libs/common.o
In file included from /usr/include/string.h:50,
 from /usr/X11R6/include/qcstring.h:46,
 from /usr/X11R6/include/qstring.h:43,
 from common.h:26,
 from common.cpp:20:
/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:273: warning: `_POSIX_C_SOURCE' is not defined
/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:279: warning: `_POSIX_C_SOURCE' is not defined
common.cpp:23: common.moc: No such file or directory
*** Error code 1

Stop in /development1/ksim-0.9.0/ksim/library.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /development1/ksim-0.9.0/ksim.
*** Error code 1

I don't see this app listed in the ports tree anywhere, this is why I am 
trying to compile the source directly. If anyone has any experience with this 
it would be appreciated. 

Regards,

Weston


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Re: KDE, sound, artsd and xmms

2002-10-02 Thread Weston M. Price

Yeah, an extremely frustrating problem to say the least. I have used both 
methods (ie the plugin and artsdsp) and have found that that artsdsp is the 
most stable and effective way to get the two apps to work together on a 
consistet basis. The plugin causes xmms at the drop of a dime. Until the 
plugin gets fixed go with artsdsp. 

Regards,

Weston

On Wednesday 02 October 2002 11:59 am, Irvine Short wrote:
> Hey All
>
> How do you guys get all the above to play together?
>
> I'd like to keep artsd going. At the moment I can get xmms to play by
> running artsdsp xmms.
>
> Is there a neater/better way? There's a plugin for xmms to talk directly
> to artsd but by all accounts it's old and buggy and not  in the ports
> subsystem.
>
> Any suggestions much appreciated.
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.7RX, KDE 3,03, and XMMS 1.2.7
>
> The sound card is an Ensoniq AudioPCI ESS1371


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Re: Character Devices vs. Block Devices

2002-10-01 Thread Weston M. Price

So, given this, I am assuming that hard drives are treated as raw devices 
exclusively? That is, no intermediate buffers are maintained between the user 
process and the device:

From The Design and Implementation of the  4.4 BSD operating system:

"The character interface does not copy the user data into a kernel buffer 
before putting then on an I/O queue. Rather, it arranges to have the I/O done 
directly to or from the address space of the process. "

Is this valid on FreeBSD? 

Regard,

Weston

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 03:19 pm, Weston M. Price wrote:
> Hello,
>   A quick ls of my dev directory revealed that each one of my hard drives is
> considered a character device by the system. Example:
>
> crw-r-  2 root  operator  116, 0x00010002 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0
> crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   0 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0a
> crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   1 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0b
> crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   2 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0c
> crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   3 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0d
> crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   4 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0e
> crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   5 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0f
> crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   6 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0g
> crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   7 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0h
>
> What I am confused about, aren't hard drives treated as block devices on
> most systems? What am I missing?
>
> Regards,
>
> Weston
>
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Character Devices vs. Block Devices

2002-10-01 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,
A quick ls of my dev directory revealed that each one of my hard drives is 
considered a character device by the system. Example:

crw-r-  2 root  operator  116, 0x00010002 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0
crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   0 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0a
crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   1 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0b
crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   2 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0c
crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   3 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0d
crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   4 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0e
crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   5 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0f
crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   6 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0g
crw-r-  2 root  operator  116,   7 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0h

What I am confused about, aren't hard drives treated as block devices on most 
systems? What am I missing? 

Regards,

Weston


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Re: NEdit dead outta nowhere

2002-09-29 Thread Weston M. Price

YESSS..finally someone else with the same problem I have 
been having. Though I have not been having the problem with NEdit, I have 
this problem with all Java related IDE's (JEdit, Eclipse, Forte etc). 

Solidarity you know.

Weston

On Monday 30 September 2002 06:44 am, Michael Collette wrote:
> Normally I'm using NEdit a LOT.  It's my primary editor for darn near
> everything I do under FreeBSD.  Just this evening NEdit decided to die on
> me with the error messages listed below.
>
> So far I've attempted the removal of NEdit's config files.  I've forced a
> reinstall of open-motif, gettext and NEdit in the hopes that something may
> have needed to be recompiled, as was the case when open-motif was recently
> updated.
>
> The only thing I can think of that was a serious change to my system was a
> recent make world on STABLE the other night.  I honestly don't recall if
> I'd tried to use NEdit since then, as I've been mucking around with lots of
> offline stuff and trying out some other editors.
>
> All of my core apps are up to date with cvs as of this evening.  My uname
> info...
> 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Sep 11 20:53:48 PDT 2002
>
> Does anyone know what any of the following means??  Should I get in and
> rebuild world again from a fresh cvsup?
>
> Errors when launching NEdit from a command line...
> ===
>= translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfActivate
> ... found while parsing ':osfActivate:
> ManagerParentActivate()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfBeginLine
> ... found while parsing ':osfBeginLine:
> ManagerGadgetTraverseHome()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfActivate
> ... found while parsing ':osfActivate: ManagerParentActivate()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfHelp
> ... found while parsing ':osfHelp:
> ManagerGadgetHelp()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered
> errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfActivate
> ... found while parsing ':osfActivate: PrimitiveParentActivate()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfHelp
> ... found while parsing ':osfHelp: Help()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfActivate
> ... found while parsing ':osfActivate: PrimitiveParentActivate()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfCancel
> ... found while parsing ':osfCancel:   MenuEscape()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> Cannot convert string "FONTLIST" to type FontStruct
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfActivate
> ... found while parsing ':osfActivate: PrimitiveParentActivate()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfSelect
> ... found while parsing ':osfSelect:   ArmAndActivate()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfPrimaryPaste
> ... found while parsing ':m osfPrimaryPaste:cut-primary()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfSelect
> ... found while parsing ':osfSelect:   ManagerGadgetSelect()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfSelect
> ... found while parsing ':osfSelect:   MenuBarGadgetSelect()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfActivate
> ... found while parsing ':osfActivate: ManagerParentActivate()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfHelp
> ... found while parsing ':osfHelp: MenuHelp()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfSelect
> ... found while parsing ':osfSelect:   KeySelect()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfSelect
> ... found while parsing ':osfSelect:   KeySelect()'
> String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfCancel
> ... found while parsing 'osfCancel:   
> MenuEscape()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> translation table syntax error: U

Re: Gaim - KDE

2002-09-29 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,
It's fairly straightforward. Just cd to 

/usr/ports/net/gaim

make all install clean

This will build the gaim client. After that you can either start it from a 
terminal, or set it up on the KDE launcer. 

Regards,

Weston

On Sunday 29 September 2002 08:44 am, MET wrote:
> How do I install Gaim from the ports for a KDE desktop?
>
> ~ Matthew
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Unusual output from dmesg

2002-09-26 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,
I was doing some checking today and found the following as a result of 
running dmesg:

config> di sn0
No such device: sn0
Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
config> di lnc0
No such device: lnc0
Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
config> di ie0
No such device: ie0
Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
config> di fe0
No such device: fe0
Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
config> di bt0
No such device: bt0
Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
config> di aic0
No such device: aic0
Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
config> di aha0
No such device: aha0
Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
config> di adv0
No such device: adv0
Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
config> q



Can anyone tell me what is going on here? Thanks. 

Weston

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Re: Books (OT)

2002-09-26 Thread Weston M. Price

If you are really interested in C++, I would recommed Stanley Lipman's 

C++ Primer 

as a place to start. Also, for more advanced examples,idioms, etc... I would 
definitely recommend Scott Meyers books as well as anything by Jim Coplien 
and Lipmans Inside the C++ Object Model. 

Regards,

Weston

On Thursday 26 September 2002 02:32 pm, Frank Heitmann wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have used FreeBSD for about 6-7 weeks now (great system; I have
> to admit that I like UNIX much more than Windows) and now that I
> got a little better with the system in general I wanted to start
> to program for it, so that I will hopefully be able to help.
>
> But as I read through some code I noticed that my C/C++ needs some
> refreshment and improvement (especially OOP) first. (I haven't really
> programmed for a year or so, because I first started to study Physics,
> before I realized that Computer Science (or "Informatik" here in
> Germany) is what interests me much more. Before that I have programmed
> a lot for Windows.)
>
> The books I have looked at are:
> C How To Program
> C++ How To Program (both from Prentice Hall/Deitel)
> and:
> C Programming Language (K&R)
> C++ Programming Language (Stroustrup)
>
> The two from Deitel look very good to me (I like the summary and
> exercises at the end of each chapter and I like the whole layout).
> The last two also seemed to be very good, but I believe they are
> more useful as a reference than for learning?!
>
> Maybe someone has them on his/her bookshelf and can give a comment?
>
> Oh, and sorry for being off-topic, but these mailinglists have
> rapidily become my only connection to the outside world :)
>
> P.S. I have just seen in the handbook that there is a book "The
> Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Unix Operating System".
> Is it useful in connection with the "Developers Handbook" to
> understand kernel internals?
> (Hey, I am at least not absolutly off-topic now :)
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
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Re: Tux Racer over FreeBSD (port linux_base-7 doesn't exists ?¿)

2002-09-25 Thread Weston M. Price

Hi,
I believe that 

/usr/ports/emulators/linux-base is the 7.1 version of linux emulation. 

Weston

On Wednesday 25 September 2002 11:25 am, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella 
wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I've just bought the game Tux Racer, which runs
> nice on Windows and Linux. I've also got an NVivia
> Riva TNT2, so the game should work well when the NVidia
> people or someone release the GLX accelerated
> driver for FreeBSD.
>
> But when I try to install it, the following message
> appears:
>
> "This software doesn't run with glibc-2.1 over FreeBSD."
>
> So, I tried to upgrade the linux emulation, but
> I've discovered that doesn't exist anything under
> "/usr/ports/emulator/linux-base_7"
>
> What's happening with this port ?
> Do you think "Tux Racer" will someday run over FreeBSD ?
>
> Regards :)


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Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Weston M. Price

The major problem I am having is that certain video encodings are not being 
recognized when I am pretty sure they should be. I am writing down all the 
ones that fail and will post  when I am finished. 

Weston

On Wednesday 25 September 2002 01:04 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 20:37:27 +0000, Weston M. Price wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 September 2002 11:11 pm, you wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 15:24:00 +, Weston M. Price wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>   Does anyone have the mplayer gui running. The man page says it
> >>> is gmplayer but I cannot find a single reference to it on my
> >>> system. Thanks.
> >>
> >> Works fine for me, for a recent installation:
> >>
> >>$ pkg_info -L mplayer-gtk-0.90.0.8
> >>Information for mplayer-gtk-0.90.0.8:
> >>
> >> In order to get it to work, you also need to install the
> >> graphics/mplayer-skins port.
> >
> > Do you get a lot of mplayer crashes. I can't seem to keep this thing
> > up and running for too long.
>
> None so far, though I have had a few wierdnesses.  I've only been
> playing with it for a day or so, so it's probably not time to report
> yet.
>
> Greg


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Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,  
Does anyone have the mplayer gui running. The man page says it is gmplayer 
but I cannot find a single reference to it on my system. Thanks. 

Weston

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Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list

2002-09-24 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,
One of the major caveats to the FreeBSD--Linux compatibility is Java 
applications. This may just be in my case, but I am having absolutely no luck 
getting a lot of Java based applications to work on FreeBSD that work just 
fine on Solaris and Linux. Also, multimedia stuff is also problematic. 

So, if you are a serious Java developer and like using an IDE other than Emacs 
I would seriously consider before moving to FreeBSD on the desktop.

Regards,

Weston

On Tuesday 24 September 2002 07:03 pm, Jud wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: MET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:37:50 +0200
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:24:48PM -0400, MET wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > 2) Since FreeBSD offers its 'Linux Compatibility' - will that allow me
> > to use programs that were written on and for a Red Hat version of Linux?
>
> With the exceptions of device drivers and things like that, yes.
>
> > FreeBSD is what I know and love, but now I'm starting to use it as a
> > desktop (KDE 3 / XFree86 4.2) and I just want to make sure that I'm not
> > missing out on people's applications (home based) that seem to only be
> > written for Linux.
>
> Most Linux applications should run fine on FreeBSD.  Some exceptions
> undoubtedly exist but those are indeed exceptions rather than the rule.
>
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
>
> Just a quick caveat to the generally true statement
> that Erik makes - (1) If an app hasn't been ported,
> that may mean there are difficulties getting it to
> run under FreeBSD.  For instance, I'd love to try
> Valgrind, Kylix and VMWare 3, but I'm guessing their
> absence from ports means no one's been able to get
> them working right on FreeBSD yet.  (2) I generally
> find it's best to use the port where one exists - the
> port has been done by someone who knows a lot more
> than I do about FreeBSD and the ported app.
>
> OTOH, once in a while there's a nice app that no one's
> gotten around to porting yet - e.g., the Psi Jabber
> client, before Jonathan Chen was nice enough to do the
> honors.  Or a port will be packaged as part of the
> GNOME or KDE environments, and I'd prefer to use it
> without all the baggage; this was true of the
> Rox-filer file manager, but (happily) no longer.
>
> Jud
>
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Strange Behavior with ALL Java based GUI applications

2002-09-24 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,
I am having an awful time with any sort of Java application that requires a
graphical user interface. I am using the native JVM 1.3.1 provided in the
ports collection. If I try to run ANY of the following applications:

RealPlayer
Eclipse
JEdit
Forte
etc.

I get errors such as

Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfActivate
Warning: ... found while parsing 'osfActivate:ManagerParentActivate()'
Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfBeginLine
Warning: ... found while parsing
'osfBeginLine:ManagerGadgetTraverseHome()'
Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfActivate
Warning: ... found while parsing 'osfActivate:ManagerParentActivate()'
Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfActivate
Warning: ... found while parsing 'osfActivate:DrawingAreaInput()
ManagerParentActivate()'
Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfUp
Warning: ... found while parsing 'osfUp:DrawingAreaInput()
ManagerGadgetTraverseUp()'
Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfSelect
Warning: ... found while parsing 'osfSelect:ManagerGadgetSelect()'
Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfSelect
Warning: ... found while parsing 'osfSelect:MenuBarGadgetSelect()'
Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfActivate
Warning: ... found while parsing 'osfActivate:ManagerParentActivate()'
Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfHelp
Warning: ... found while parsing 'osfHelp:MenuHelp()'
Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfActivate
Warning: ... found while parsing 'osfActivate:PrimitiveParentActivate()'
Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors

The result is that the keyboard becomes completely unusable. This is
consistent across ALL Java applications that have some for of GUI other than
the deployment tool that comes with the J2EE SDK. I have tried these
applications with both the JDK 1.3.1 and the linux-sun 1.4.1 port. I really
have no idea what this is happening. Any assistance would be greatly
apprecitated. My system info is

I am running 4.7 PRE-RELEASE.

Thanks.

Weston

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Re: IMHO odd behaviour with jdk-1.3.1p7 and galeon-1.2.6

2002-09-23 Thread Weston M. Price

I absolutely agree. In fact, I have seen wretched behavior from ALL Java 
applications on FreeBSDthis included using native JDK 1.3.1 and the 
Linux-Sun port of 1.4.1. For example:

JEdit will just not runthe JVM chokes after a few moments of execution. 

Eclipse (the IDE) just will not work with any sort of regularity

Forte dies after a few moments of execution with the same type of errors as 
JEdit. 

Basically ANYTHING with a GUI does not work

Weston


On Monday 23 September 2002 06:18 pm, Esa Karkkainen wrote:
> Hi all
>
>   I finally managed to compile jdk-1.3.1p7 and decided to use it
> with Galeon. I checked java checkbox in Galeon's "Settings" menu,
> quit Galeon and started Galeon from command line. Galeon died with
> following messages:
>
> % galeon
>
> ** CRITICAL **: file mozilla.cpp: line 134 (gboolean
> mozilla_preference_set(const char *, const char *)): assertion
> `new_value != NULL' failed.
> INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version > 5! Version = 0
>
> System error?:: No such file or directory
> %
>
>   I managed to "fix", ie Galeon starts ok and I can browse
> non Java websites, the problem I had rather crudely:
>
> # cd /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600
> # ls -l
> total 2656
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   316234 Sep 23 20:15 libjavaplugin_oji.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2358425 Sep 23 20:17 libjavaplugin_oji_g.so*
> # mv libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so.5
> # ls -l
> total 2656
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   316234 Sep 23 20:15 libjavaplugin_oji.so.5*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2358425 Sep 23 20:17 libjavaplugin_oji_g.so*
> # ln -s libjavaplugin_oji.so.5 libjavaplugin_oji.so
> # ls -l
> total 2656
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   22 Sep 23 20:32 libjavaplugin_oji.so@ ->
> libjavaplugin_oji.so.5 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   316234 Sep 23 20:15
> libjavaplugin_oji.so.5* -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2358425 Sep 23 20:17
> libjavaplugin_oji_g.so* #
>
>   So then I tried running some of the demos included with JDK.
> None of the demos work, all they do is open a window stating:
>
> "This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that
>  can be only viewed with the approppriate Plug-in."
>
>   And "about:plugins" shows only Default Plugin (ie
> libnullplugin.so).


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Re: Upgrade

2002-09-20 Thread Weston M. Price

Randy,

I recently switched to FreeBSD about three weeks ago and I went through the 
same thing. Now, this is what I did, so it might not be entirely applicable 
but some of it might help. 

I installed the minimum amount of software to get the system up and running. 
The installation procedure actually has an option for this. After that I 
started looking through the ports collection to see what I really wanted on 
th system. 

The ports and packages collection is explained in the handbook. If you don't 
have a printed copy, it is also on the website. The reason I did the minimum 
install was so I could learn to use ports and packages and "build" a system 
as I went along. 

To upgrade the operating system itself is surprisingly simple. The basic idea 
is 

a) install CVSup (there is tons of stuff about CVSUp in the handbook)

b) pull down the latest source tree (stable is probably what you want, this 
will get you up to 4.7-PRERELEASE. 

c) build the OS following the instructions in the handbook
d) build a custom kernel to suit your hardware and preferences
e) install the new kernel 
f)  test the new kernel
g) install the new source build


There are other ways to do this as well most notably CTM. However, if you have 
a decent Internet connection I would go with the above plan. 

Like I said I would STRONGLY, STRONGLY recommend reading the handbook before 
doing anything. Of course, this list is an excellent resource for questions. 
I would also recommend subscribing to some of the other lists, most notably 
the [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list has excellent information regarding 
the current state of the code. 

I will say that I am pleased with the system so far. FreeBSD is much more 
flexible than Linux and better organized. 

Regards, 
Weston

On Saturday 21 September 2002 03:45 am, Randy Oong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I''ve bought your FreeBSD(4.5) sometime ago, and only started installation
> about last week and discover from the web that there is 4.6.2. Please do
> enlighten on how shall I upgrade, and how shall I do security patches.
>
> Thanks,
> Randy.


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NFS Problems FreeBSD --> Solaris

2002-09-19 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,  
  I am attempting to mount a few directories from my Solaris machine(s) to my 
FreeBSD workstation. nfsd is clearly running on Solaris and the sharing the 
directories is not a problem. When I attempt to mount the directories on 
FreeBSD I get the following error: 

damascus:/usr/wmprice: RPCMNT: clnt_create: RPC: Program not registered

A simple ps -x | egrep shows that nfsiod is running

ps -x | egrep nfsiod

98  ??  I  0:00.00 nfsiod -n 4
99  ??  I  0:00.00 nfsiod -n 4
100  ??  I  0:00.00 nfsiod -n 4
101  ??  I  0:00.00 nfsiod -n 4

I have this configured to begin at startup. 

So, what am I doing wrong? This would seem to me to be a pretty simple 
procedure. Any help would be appreciated. 

Weston

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Re: CDROM drive(s) suddenly gone

2002-09-17 Thread Weston M. Price

Excellentmusic cd's work fine. My confusion on the subject sorry. Thanks 
for the help everyone

Weston

On Wednesday 18 September 2002 04:47 am, Greg Lane wrote:
> > And even weirderwhen I do put in a data cdit is mounted as
> >
> > /dev/acd0c which according to dmesg doesn't even existsyet it is in
> > the /dev directory structure.
>
> This is the way it is supposed to work.
> The device in dmesg will be acd0, while it will be
> referred to when mounting (as in your fstab) as /dev/acd0c.
>
> In a similar fashion, you will notice that your disk drives are
> detected (if IDE) as ad0, ad1 etc in dmesg, although in
> /etc/fstab they are listed by partition as /dev/ad0s1a etc when
> they are being mounted.
>
> The additional letter refers to the partition. For the cdrom,
> the letter c refers to "the whole disk".
>
> Your initial confusion seems to be due to the fact that you were trying
> to mount a music cd. This is not what you do, you "play" music cd's.
> You can use a variety of things to do this, from the basic,
> cdcontrol (see the man page), to the graphical interface
> variety, e.g. xcdplayer in the ports.
>
> If you want to extract the music off the CD as a .wav file, you
> don't mount the cd, you use a ripping tool, like cdda2wav (from
> the cdrtools port).
>
> Hope that makes more sense.
>
> Cheers,
> Greg


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Re: CDROM drive(s) suddenly gone

2002-09-17 Thread Weston M. Price

No, I literally just got the data cd to work. Howerver, at this point music 
CD's will not mount. 

Weston

On Wednesday 18 September 2002 04:41 am, Bob Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 September 2002 08:10 pm, Weston M. Price appears to have
>
> written:
> > And even weirderwhen I do put in a data cdit is mounted as
> >
> > /dev/acd0c which according to dmesg doesn't even existsyet it is
> > in the /dev directory structure.
>
> the "c" in "acd0c" says it is the "c" partition on acd0.  By default,
> the "c" partition is the entire disk.  So yes, if acd0 exists, acd0c
> exists.  And just because it is in /dev, doesn't mean it actually
> exists.  It just means that if it did exist, you would have a way
> to refer to it.
>
> But you are confusing me.  I thought you couldn't mount your CDs?
> Are you having problems with data CDs, or only music CDs?
>
> > Weston
> >
> > On Wednesday 18 September 2002 04:03 am, Anish Mistry wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 17 September 2002 06:04 pm, Weston M. Price wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > I recently built a new kernel to incorporate sound on my
> > > > machine.
> > >
> > > Everything
> > >
> > > > seemed to come off without a hitch, no problems whatsoever. I
> > > > followed the handbook and added a line to my custom kernel.
> > > >
> > > > device pcm
> > > >
> > > > I purposely left out options PNPBIOS just to make sure everything
> > > > went all right to begin with
> > > >
> > > > After this I made sure to check everything to make sure all my
> > > > system functionality remained intactagain, there appeared to
> > > > be no problems.
> > > >
> > > > This evening I went to mount one of my cdrom drives and the
> > > > machine kept giving me a problem saying
> > > >
> > > > cd9660: /dev/acd0c : Invalid Argument
>
> Maybe something you changed had an effect on your device definitions.
> Try
>cd /dev
>sh ./MAKEDEV all
>
> to rebuild all of your devices.
>
> > > Try mounting /dev/acd0a.  I ran into this problem a while ago.
> > >
> > > > I checked /etc/fstab and the entry for both /cdrom and /cdrom1
> > > > remained the same as before, they are as follows:
> > > >
> > > > /dev/acd0c  /cdrom  cd9660  ro,noauto   0
> > > >   0 /dev/acd1c  /cdrom1 cd9660  ro,noauto
> > > >   0   0
>
> the /etc/fstab entry won't change unless you change it.  It doesn't
> get updated automatically.  I assume the mangled lines are caused
> by an email problem?
>
> > > > however, when I took a look a dmesg I found the following:
> > > >
> > > > dmesg | egrep acd
> > > > acd0: CDROM  at ata1-master PIO4
> > > > acd1: CD-RW  at ata1-slave PIO4
> > > >
> > > > To tell the truth, really have no idea how this happened. Does
> > > > anyone have
>
> What are you saying happened?  This looks normal to me.  You have
> two CD drives.  Your CDROM gets mounted as /cdrom, and your CD-RW
> gets mounted as /cdrom1
>
> > > any
> > >
> > > > ideas, and more importantly, how do I get the cdrom(s) back? I am
> > > > running FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE. Thanks for anyhelp anyone can
> > > > give me.
>
> Start by rebuilding your devices, as above.If you can mount a data
> CD as root, then try it as a normal user.  If that works, then as far as
> I know, how you mount a music CD depends on what program you
> are using to play the music.  It might be expecting a link that isn't
> there, e.g.
> /dev/cdrom may need to point to /dev/acd0
>
>
> - Bob
>
> > > > Weston
>
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Re: CDROM drive(s) suddenly gone

2002-09-17 Thread Weston M. Price

And even weirderwhen I do put in a data cdit is mounted as

/dev/acd0c which according to dmesg doesn't even existsyet it is in the 
/dev directory structure. 

Weston

On Wednesday 18 September 2002 04:03 am, Anish Mistry wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 September 2002 06:04 pm, Weston M. Price wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I recently built a new kernel to incorporate sound on my machine.
>
> Everything
>
> > seemed to come off without a hitch, no problems whatsoever. I followed
> > the handbook and added a line to my custom kernel.
> >
> > device pcm
> >
> > I purposely left out options PNPBIOS just to make sure everything went
> > all right to begin with
> >
> > After this I made sure to check everything to make sure all my system
> > functionality remained intactagain, there appeared to be no problems.
> >
> > This evening I went to mount one of my cdrom drives and the machine kept
> > giving me a problem saying
> >
> > cd9660: /dev/acd0c : Invalid Argument
>
> Try mounting /dev/acd0a.  I ran into this problem a while ago.
>
> > I checked /etc/fstab and the entry for both /cdrom and /cdrom1 remained
> > the same as before, they are as follows:
> >
> > /dev/acd0c  /cdrom  cd9660  ro,noauto   0   0
> > /dev/acd1c  /cdrom1 cd9660  ro,noauto   0   0
> >
> > however, when I took a look a dmesg I found the following:
> >
> > dmesg | egrep acd
> > acd0: CDROM  at ata1-master PIO4
> > acd1: CD-RW  at ata1-slave PIO4
> >
> > To tell the truth, really have no idea how this happened. Does anyone
> > have
>
> any
>
> > ideas, and more importantly, how do I get the cdrom(s) back? I am running
> > FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE. Thanks for anyhelp anyone can give me.
> >
> > Weston
> >
> >
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Re: CDROM drive(s) suddenly gone

2002-09-17 Thread Weston M. Price

Well, mount /dev/acd0a does not work. Howerver, I did put in a data disk and 
it mounted fine with the command mount /cdrom. However, a music CD will not 
work. Is there some sort of special setting(s) I need to configure to mount 
music CD's? 

Thanks again. 

Weston

On Wednesday 18 September 2002 04:03 am, Anish Mistry wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 September 2002 06:04 pm, Weston M. Price wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I recently built a new kernel to incorporate sound on my machine.
>
> Everything
>
> > seemed to come off without a hitch, no problems whatsoever. I followed
> > the handbook and added a line to my custom kernel.
> >
> > device pcm
> >
> > I purposely left out options PNPBIOS just to make sure everything went
> > all right to begin with
> >
> > After this I made sure to check everything to make sure all my system
> > functionality remained intactagain, there appeared to be no problems.
> >
> > This evening I went to mount one of my cdrom drives and the machine kept
> > giving me a problem saying
> >
> > cd9660: /dev/acd0c : Invalid Argument
>
> Try mounting /dev/acd0a.  I ran into this problem a while ago.
>
> > I checked /etc/fstab and the entry for both /cdrom and /cdrom1 remained
> > the same as before, they are as follows:
> >
> > /dev/acd0c  /cdrom  cd9660  ro,noauto   0   0
> > /dev/acd1c  /cdrom1 cd9660  ro,noauto   0   0
> >
> > however, when I took a look a dmesg I found the following:
> >
> > dmesg | egrep acd
> > acd0: CDROM  at ata1-master PIO4
> > acd1: CD-RW  at ata1-slave PIO4
> >
> > To tell the truth, really have no idea how this happened. Does anyone
> > have
>
> any
>
> > ideas, and more importantly, how do I get the cdrom(s) back? I am running
> > FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE. Thanks for anyhelp anyone can give me.
> >
> > Weston
> >
> >
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SVR4 -- Linux compatibility

2002-09-17 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,  
I am trying to run a few applications, most notably Eclipse 2.0.1 and 
Netscape7 (the FreeBSD port). Each time I try and start an app I get the 
following error

ELF interpreter /compat/svr4/lib/ld-linux.so.2 not found

The library does exist just not where the application(s) are looking. Can 
anyone give me a hint as to how the dynamic linker works with these types of 
applications. The real confusion for me is the svr4 part, I am just not sure 
why these applications are looking there. 

Thanks. 

Weston

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CDROM drive(s) suddenly gone

2002-09-17 Thread Weston M. Price

Hello,  
I recently built a new kernel to incorporate sound on my machine. Everything 
seemed to come off without a hitch, no problems whatsoever. I followed the 
handbook and added a line to my custom kernel. 

device pcm

I purposely left out options PNPBIOS just to make sure everything went all 
right to begin with

After this I made sure to check everything to make sure all my system 
functionality remained intactagain, there appeared to be no problems. 

This evening I went to mount one of my cdrom drives and the machine kept 
giving me a problem saying 

cd9660: /dev/acd0c : Invalid Argument

I checked /etc/fstab and the entry for both /cdrom and /cdrom1 remained the 
same as before, they are as follows:

/dev/acd0c  /cdrom  cd9660  ro,noauto   0   0
/dev/acd1c  /cdrom1 cd9660  ro,noauto   0   0

however, when I took a look a dmesg I found the following:

dmesg | egrep acd
acd0: CDROM  at ata1-master PIO4
acd1: CD-RW  at ata1-slave PIO4

To tell the truth, really have no idea how this happened. Does anyone have any 
ideas, and more importantly, how do I get the cdrom(s) back? I am running 
FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE. Thanks for anyhelp anyone can give me. 

Weston


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