laptops and notebooks
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having problems copying a dvd
Hi, I'm trying to make a copy of a dvd that I have, video, using a technique that I gleaned from this list nearly two years ago that has always worked but now I'm having problems. (When I say always, please bear in mind that I don't do this every day or even frequently). You'll also see calls to dd. These were attempts at last ditch effort. I usually just use the copy command (got it from a thread entitled, copying a dvd video, from November of 07). If dd will work but I just forgot to get the block size right, what is that supposed to be. So, here's what I'm doing with the results. Any help is greatly appreciated because am at the point of pulling my hair out (which might have actually happened had I not shaved it off). [r...@sniper ~]# cp /dev/acd0 /usr/local/dvds/biggest_loser.iso cp: /dev/acd0: Input/output error [r...@sniper ~]# cp /dev/acd0t01 /usr/local/dvds/biggest_loser.iso cp: /dev/acd0t01: Input/output error [r...@sniper ~]# dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/usr/local/dvds/biggest_loser.iso dd: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000115 secs (0 bytes/sec) [r...@sniper ~]# dd if=/dev/acd0t01 of=/usr/local/dvds/biggest_loser.iso dd: /dev/acd0t01: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000111 secs (0 bytes/sec) Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: Re: Which latex should I install
On Jun 26, 2009 7:32am, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Hopefully Polytropon will chime in on this, but I had to install TeXLive for everything to work. Suggestion: try teTeX. If you encounter problems, then install TeXLive. Daniel, I wanted to ask, but neglected to until now, did you install from the DVD or the network? Also, did you install for FreeBSD (pre-compiled binaries), or did you install Linux binaries? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: Which latex should I install
On Jun 26, 2009 6:41am, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: I recently went through the ropes of installing latex on my FreeBSD machine. You may the discussion I had helpful. See # 256 and below, from here: http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2009/freebsd-questions/20090607.freebsd-questions.html Thanks for the link to the previous discussion. So, should I use the TeXLive or teTeX given by Polytropon? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: Re: Which latex should I install
On Jun 26, 2009 10:40am, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:27:51PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:21:37AM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Is there a FBSD port of TeXLive?
No, but it's not necessary. Just go here
http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html and download the DVD image.
well.. I'll wait for some kind sole to put a texlive port together.
Tetex port has been enough for me for some years now.
The thing is that teTeX hasn't been updated in years. It has in fact
been deprecated in favor of TeXLive. This is not a big problem with the
basic TeX engine, because that doesn't change that much. But pdfTeX (a
TeX that generates PDF output instead of DVI) has been evolving
rapidly. And you'll miss out on several years of updates of the macro
packages (like LaTeX and ConTeXt).
Another consideration is that TeXLive contains a much larger choice of
additional packages than teTeX.
So I would advise you to install TeXLive. The latest DVD comes with
FreeBSD binaries.
Look at the mailing list archives for threads called LaTeX oder teTeX
in October 2007, and Installing latest version of LaTeX in June
2009. In those threads I've posted some instructions on how to get
TeXLive to work. Installation is pretty easy, but you have to change
login.conf and manpath.conf to use the binaries and manpages. Normally
TeXLive keeps everything under its own tree (/usr/local/texlive), so it
won't mess up the trees /usr/local/{bin,share,...}. Do _not_ tell the
installer to put symbolic links in /usr/local/bin! That way removing
TeXLive is as easy as removing /usr/local/texlive.
Roland
Thanks Roland. Looks like TeXLive it is.
Andy
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Which latex should I install
Hi, Just today I found the marvel of LaTeX while looking over a quick how-to for LaTeX. I was using a Linux system at work and would like to install it on my FreeBSD system at home since I've been looking for something like this for exchanging math questions I have with a friend who's helping me understand mathematics as I pursue my degree. LaTeX is just what I've been looking for. However, when I went to find the port by doing make search name=latex I was returned so many hits, frankly, I'm overwhelmed. What do I need to install from ports to get the LaTeX language on my system, show the markup using the native DVI and more importantly, write pdf file from the markup? The tutorial I was going off of was using something called pdftex I think, but not sure. I sent myself a link to the tutorial so I wouldn't have to remember. Oh, it should be obvious, but what do I need to make sure of so that I've got all of the math rendering capability at my fingertips? There's just so much there. Obviously, LaTeX is much more than I thought it was. I'm looking forward to understanding it more. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Configuring an IPv6 router to assign addresses
Hi, I've found in the handbook how to start up a v6 router and some other helpful links on this topic at the FreeBSD diary. However, I'm wondering, how do I configure the router to assign addresses to hosts. Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: Configuring an IPv6 router to assign addresses
On May 6, 2009 8:56am, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: On Wednesday 06 May 2009 10:39:24 am Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: Is there a reason you need to control the addresses used by your clients (other than the prefix)? I set up IPv6 on my LAN and while I have DHCPd running on the router for IPv4 addresses rtadvd is all I needed for IPv6. Clients assign themselves addresses based on the network prefix they learn from route solicitation and their own MAC address. That's supposed to be one of the reduced administration benefits of the new protocol. :) Thanks for reminding me of the flow in which this happens. Seems like I, at sometime, got the idea that it was the router that dished back a unique IP based on clients MAC and so forth. However, it seems to me now that the router was only supposed to dish out the prefix, ie network id, and the client would take that prefix and generate a unique IP based on its MAC. Thanks again, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: Loading sound drivers
On Apr 9, 2009 9:20am, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: You even need sound_load=YES in the loader.conf. snd_via8234 pulls it upon loading. Yup, pathetic that I missed it, but that's what I was missing. Thanks everyone. I've added _load to the lines. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Loading sound drivers
Hi, My motherboard, an ASUS K8V-X, has a generic type sound chip on board, according to ASUS' specifications, it is an AD1980 chipset. The hardware notes, linked from the handbook, does not list this chipset but does list several Intel type HDA chipsets including one AD1981 chipset. Never the less, using the handbook instructions I loaded the meta sound driver and my chipset was identified as a via8233 chipset. The meta driver loaded many drivers into the kernel, but through trial and error I've discovered that only sound.ko and snd_via8233.ko need to be loaded. So, I put these two lines into /boot/loader.conf: sound=YES snd_via8233=YES However, these two modules do not load on bootup. Why? How do I fix this? Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: where is spl_autoload found in PHP
On Apr 6, 2009 2:04pm, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:13 PM, af300...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I saw Zend in the ports and so I'm hoping that some here use it and can
help
me with this one. I've installed the latest stable Zend, which is a
little
newer than what I found in ports, and I'm running PHP version 5.2.8
(which I
did install from ports). I'm going through the Zend QuickStart guide
(http://framework.zend.com/docs/quickstart/create-an-action-controller-and-view),
and ran into this error when loading the page at this point of the quick
start;
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Exception' with
message 'spl_autoload
does not exist in this PHP installation' in
/usr/local/www/apache22/data/QuickStart/library/Zend/Loader.php:206
Stack
trace: #0 /usr/local/www/apache22/data/QuickStart/public/index.php(18):
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload() #1 {main} thrown in
/usr/local/www/apache22/data/QuickStart/library/Zend/Loader.php on line
206
I've searched through the ports looking for auto and load in php5
modules
and I've found nothing (I did my searching at freshports.org). I then
did a
make config in the /usr/ports/lang/php5 directory but didn't see a
check box
for spl_autoload in the options. How do I get this installed in my PHP
installation?
devel/php5-spl
Thank you very much. I'm not sure I'd have found that too easily.
Andy
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where is spl_autoload found in PHP
Hi,
I saw Zend in the ports and so I'm hoping that some here use it and can
help me with this one. I've installed the latest stable Zend, which is a
little newer than what I found in ports, and I'm running PHP version 5.2.8
(which I did install from ports). I'm going through the Zend QuickStart
guide
(http://framework.zend.com/docs/quickstart/create-an-action-controller-and-view),
and ran into this error when loading the page at this point of the quick
start;
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Exception' with message 'spl_autoload
does not exist in this PHP installation' in
/usr/local/www/apache22/data/QuickStart/library/Zend/Loader.php:206 Stack
trace: #0 /usr/local/www/apache22/data/QuickStart/public/index.php(18):
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload() #1 {main} thrown in
/usr/local/www/apache22/data/QuickStart/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 206
I've searched through the ports looking for auto and load in php5 modules
and I've found nothing (I did my searching at freshports.org). I then did a
make config in the /usr/ports/lang/php5 directory but didn't see a check
box for spl_autoload in the options. How do I get this installed in my PHP
installation?
Thanks,
Andy
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Re: Re: Where is the Perl XML::Parser port
On Mar 29, 2009 4:21pm, Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/29/09, af300...@gmail.com af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm installing the latest gimp and get to a point in the install where it says: checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool So, I've done some searches at freshports.org and I cannot find the XML::Parser perl module anywhere in the ports tree. What is it under? whereis p5-XML-Parser p5-XML-Parser: /usr/ports/textproc/p5-XML-Parser Thanks Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Where is the Perl XML::Parser port
Hi, I'm installing the latest gimp and get to a point in the install where it says: checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool So, I've done some searches at freshports.org and I cannot find the XML::Parser perl module anywhere in the ports tree. What is it under? Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system
On Feb 23, 2009 6:41am, Erich Dollansky ocean...@pacific.net.sg wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 01:15 +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: so, you did what you are supposed to do to get the latest source. So, basically, the question for everyone here is, what's the simplest way to get a fresh source code tree so that I can build the world applications? If you want to make sure that nothing damaged is in your way, delete everything under /usr/src except of your configuration file. You also could use this to upgrade to 7.1. I have considered that. There are a few ports installed on this system however, MySQL and Apache being the most important. How does one go about upgrading to a newer release and ensuring that the ports of pristine also when the upgrade is completed. I was thinking of this approach, please advise if I'm mistaken. 1) comment all installed ports from auto-loading in rc.conf 2) upgrade kernel to newest release (7.1) 3) upgrade user land applications 4) csup the ports tree 5) portupgrade -a 6) uncomment the commented lines from rc.conf 7) reboot and hope all works as planned Does this sound appropriate? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system
On Feb 23, 2009 10:43am, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: touch gtype-desc.h touch: No such file or directory The file gtype-desc.h doesn't exist on my 7.1 system. I think that this means that the 'touch' binary is missing. See below. I had over looked that possibility but I agree now that you mention it especially in light of reading your further comments below. Touch should never complain about missing files, because one of its purposes is to create files that don't exist. So it is probably the 'touch' binary itself is missing. Try 'which touch'. It should report '/usr/bin/touch'. If it doesn't, touch is MIA. It might be saved in the lost+found directory of the partition that holds /usr/bin. The easiest way to get it back is to just build touch. Or copy it from the install/live-cd. I'ma little unclear about how to build individual programs from within the source tree. Can you please explain how I'd do this? Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system
Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: touch gtype-desc.h touch: No such file or directory A little history for what's going on; the server was not responding at all so I took it home to diagnose (it was at a friends house, where it's hosted). I turned it on and it booted up ok for me, which was a little odd because he told me that it wasn't doing anything. So, I began looking the system over. Within 10 minutes the system became slow and was rather unresponsive to things. For example, saves while running vim took 20 seconds or so. Within a few minutes the kernel panicked and I had to reboot. Before the panic I noticed that there were some background file system checks going. So, since it was rebooting anyway I went into single user mode and performed fsck on all of the partitions (except the root, that was marked as clean). There were many problems fixed especially on the /usr partition. I'm betting that this missing file, gtype-desc.h, happens to have been one of the many problems fixed. At any rate, after running the file system checks I rebooted normally and everything appears to be fine. I then updated the system and kernel source code and that's when I found this problem. The kernel built ok and I've had the system running for up to 2 hours since fixing the file systems without incident. It's apparently corrupted file systems rather than hardware. Never the less, I will be turning up what smartd is monitoring because I do have it running and received no e-mail about hard drive problems. So, basically, the question for everyone here is, what's the simplest way to get a fresh source code tree so that I can build the world applications? Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: RE: vi set comment #
On Feb 20, 2009 7:56am, Johan Hendriks jo...@double-l.nl wrote:
define service{
use generic-service
host_name w2003hk03
service_description Explorer
check_command check_nt!PROCSTATE!-d SHOWALL -l Explorer.exe
}
And now i want to set a # to all the 6 lines.
Thanks all for the fast and usefull response.
Regards,
Johan Hendriks
As if you haven't already gotten enough help and such, I'd like to give you
another alternative that will be handy in the future too. Please note
however that this only applies if you're using VIM.
1) Place your cursor on top of the first character you want to put the
comment in front of (in your example, which I left above, that would on top
of the 'd' in define)
2) Hit Ctrl-v (this places the editor in visual mode)
3) Hit 'j', or use the down arrows, until your highlighted section is on
top of the last character you want the comment in front of (in your
example, it is the closing '}')
4) Hit Shift-I
5) Type a single '#'
6) Hit escape
After hitting escape, you'll have a new column of '#' characters in front
of every character in that vertical column. Also, one of your first
respondents mentioned a mailing list at vim.org (I believe, going off
memory), you can also get great vi/vim advice from comp.editors. They
discuss all kinds of editors there, but the group is mainly vi dominated.
Hope this helps,
Andy
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Re: Re: memory limitations per process
On Feb 19, 2009 4:21pm, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Your question is vague. Sorry, it was not intentional. I wasn't too sure how to ask the question. A 32-bit process can only access 4 GB of memory, but all processes also have a bit of memory reserved for the kernel. On FreeBSD the accessible memory for processes is closer to 3 GB than 2 or 4. See this discussion for details: http://wiki.freebsd.org/KVA_PAGES Also, FreeBSD processes have administrative limits to their size set by defaults. See for example this: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-11/msg01363.html . If you want to use the whole 3 GB for a process, you'll have to increase maxdsiz. Note that you may need to experiment with this size since your BIOS will probably not let you use 4 GB of physical memory for the OS except if you enable PAE, and it's possible to create an unbootable system by messing with kernel memory limits. You should probably experiment on the loader command line first, not in the loader.conf file. Thank you. This is exactly what I was hoping to learn. Thanks also for the links for further reading. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
memory limitations per process
Hi, I'm running into a per process memory limit at work (on Windoze though), but I'm wondering what's the limit per process in FreeBSD for 32 bit systems, ie i386? Is it 4gb or 2? From stuff I found on the Net, I'm guessing 4gb, but wanted to ask anyway. It seems to be an implementation deal limiting the windows world to 2gb per process rather than hardware limitations. Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
How to add KDE-SVN to KDE4
Hi, Well, I got KDE4 to install and I like it! However, I noticed that the KDE-SVN package, which I installed for KDE3, isn't accessible as it currently sits for KDE4. Would anyone here know how to make it accessible to KDE4? Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Snag in installing KDE4; need libgs but where is it
Hi, I decided last night to try and install KDE4. I left it compiling to go to bed. When I got up, I saw that it had his this snag: checking for vasprintf... yes checking for gsapi_new_instance in -lgs... no configure: error: You need libgs in order to compile libspectre I can't find a port that installs libgs. At least, I did these two things: make search name=libgs make search name=ghostscript The first returns only references to libgsf which I had installed. I upgraded the port anyway, but this didn't fix the problem. The second returns things that don't seem to be what I want. What port will install this library? Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: Snag in installing KDE4; need libgs but where is it
On Feb 7, 2009 6:24am, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: af300...@gmail.com said: Hi, I decided last night to try and install KDE4. I left it compiling to go to bed. When I got up, I saw that it had his this snag: checking for vasprintf... yes checking for gsapi_new_instance in -lgs... no configure: error: You need libgs in order to compile libspectre I can't find a port that installs libgs. At least, I did these two things: make search name=libgs make search name=ghostscript I did `make search name=libspectre' which is where your build failed. I see afew dependencies on ghostscript and gsfonts. Either try building libspectre directly (/usr/ports/print/libspectre) or the ghostscript/gsfonts dependencies directly. A port upgrade to ghostscript seemed to correct that problem. Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
KDE4 build fails for language issues
Hi, Ok, the next thing in the saga of getting KDE4 installed, I hit this when compiling KDE4: In file included from /usr/ports/multimedia/kdemultimedia4/work/kdemultimedia-4.1.1/juk/coverinfo.cpp:37: /usr/local/include/taglib/id3v2tag.h:101: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct TagLib::Tag' /usr/local/include/taglib/tfile.h:31: error: forward declaration of 'struct TagLib::Tag' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/kdemultimedia4/work/kdemultimedia-4.1.1/build. *** Error code 1 Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this one? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: KDE4 build fails for language issues
On Feb 7, 2009 8:53am, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: af300...@gmail.com said: In file included from /usr/ports/multimedia/kdemultimedia4/work/kdemultimedia-4.1.1/juk/coverinfo.cpp:37: /usr/local/include/taglib/id3v2tag.h:101: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct TagLib::Tag' /usr/local/include/taglib/tfile.h:31: error: forward declaration of 'struct TagLib::Tag' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/kdemultimedia4/work/kdemultimedia-4.1.1/build. *** Error code 1 Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this one? Have you updated your ports tree? If not, try that. If it still fails, I would submit a PR. In fact, a portupgrade to the taglib port fixed the issue. Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
having trouble with OpenOffice
Hi, Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice installed. However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet but seems to be related to the X server (from searches on the net). So, I do this: [a...@sniper /usr/home/andy]$ /usr/local/bin/openoffice.org-2.4.2-scalc I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale en_US The application cannot be started. The component manager is not available. Segmentation fault (core dumped) As you can tell, OpenOffice failed because my OS doesn't support locale en_US. Huh!?! I'm using the English version. In fact, the only way to consider me as being bilingual is something of a matter of mental gymnastics because English is spoken in England and to me, England is a foreign country. Thus, I'm bilingual, or at the least, I speak a foreign language. Never the less, how would this be fixed? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: Odd behavior after upgrading to 7.0-p7
On Jan 13, 2009 4:18pm, Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2009 16:37:50 Andrew Falanga wrote: I installed 7.0 i386 and all was working great. I upgraded to p7 and now when I end my X session, I have kdm loading, it doesn't bring me to a login prompt. It dumps me on console 0 and I have to kill the kdm-bin process to return to a kdm login. This didn't happen before upgrading to p7. What would have changed that would not prevent this? When using x11/nvidia-driver, recompile it for this new kernel. Thanks. I'll do that. Though, to be sure, does this mean I must enter that directory in ports and do a 'make deinstall' and then 'make install clean'? Thanks again, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: postgresql network access problem
On Jan 1, 2009 4:34am, stan st...@panix.com wrote: Thanks. I did get it working. Here is the line that I used in rc.conf: postgresql_flags=-o '-i' -w -s -m fast As a point of information, what was confusing me was, i had increased the number of connections in postgresql.conf. This had created a situation where I did not have enough kernel resources. This was loged in /var/log/messages. I crected this, but even then postgess would never start again, and no further messages werre put in /var/log/messages. I would up re init'g the database. I didn't know about using postgresql_flags=needed_flags in rc.conf. Thanks for that info. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Using PHP PDO on FreeBSD
Hello, So, I've installed from ports the following: sniper# pkg_info | grep php php5-5.2.6_2 PHP Scripting Language php5-pdo-5.2.6_2 The pdo shared extension for php php5-pdo_pgsql-5.2.6_1 The pdo_pgsql shared extension for php php5-pgsql-5.2.6_1 The pgsql shared extension for php I noticed in /usr/local/etc/php there is a file named, extensions.ini with the following contents: sniper# cat php/extensions.ini extension=pgsql.so extension=pdo.so extension=pdo_pgsql.so However, when I try to use the PDO in my php script I get this error from the interpreter: could not find driver Now, I don't know what I'm missing. I've tried renaming /usr/local/etc/php.ini-recommended to php.ini. However, after reloading apache, I'm still getting the, could not find driver, error. So, what's the secret to using this extension on FreeBSD? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box
On Dec 28, 2008 5:42am, Marco Beishuizen mb...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:14:38 + Did you install the latest Nvidia driver? Perhaps your card isn't supported anymore. Nvidia dropped some older chipsets in their latest driver. You can try nvidia-driver-96xx or nvidia-driver-71xx in the ports. I hope this helps. I installed the nvidia-driver-96xx because when I installed the latest one it said that my chipset wasn't supported. Actually, I think that the suggestions from Mike helped. I added the option in my xorg.conf file that says to use the nvidia agp drivers before using the kernel agp.ko. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box
Hi, For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and although things are working I'm getting this on console 0: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the amd CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended So, when I installed the nvidia driver I said to enable AGP. (Figuring only that this is an AGP board, why not?) My graphical environment works but I'd like to resolve this. Also, I think that some little quirks in my display can be attributed to this, but I'm not sure. Is there some sort of kernel option I must include and build my own kernel? Thanks, Andy ps in case it matters, my board is rather old. I purchased it 4 years ago and as I'm not a gamer, it suffices quite nicely. Here's the driver I had to install for support of this chip: nvidia-driver-96.43.07 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL ren ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows
On Dec 5, 2008 9:34am, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:30:20 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just curious to see how it looks for my own sanity's sake. At work, someone got the grand idea that we should move to Windoze embedded (CE and XPe) and it's been quite discouraging I must say, though I must admit, it's nice to actually know why Windows is ugly underneath. From a programming perspective, it's just not simplistic. Anyway, I digress, I'm just curious to see how things compare to Windows on similar benchmarks to what Kris provided if its ever been done. The userland win32 API might be rather unpleasant but I was surprised to learn to driver interface in the kernel is actually quite nice, and isn't too dissimilar to FreeBSD in some ways. In terms of performance Windows-based machines have made it into the Top500 list of supercomputers, so at the high end performance must be acceptable at least. Very interesting. To be fair, programming is programming. It's not as if a struct suddenly became an int because we're using windows. You've just got to learn to do it differently. It's just irritating that there's not a fork() in windows, VERY irritating. Other things are quite irritating too, but like I said, it's not as if C++ suddenly became something different because I was working in windows. To the list, I must say that I wasn't looking to start a holy war. Before posting I thought that the message was properly worded to find out if it had ever been done and if the results could be easily accessed. I found the result sets from Kris quite interesting comparing FreeBSD X against Linux X, DragonFlyBSD X and so forth. It was just interesting and I was wondering how similar benchmarks would compare. I didn't meant to set anyone off. Lastly, I think I may have left the impression that perhaps where I work they switched from FreeBSD to Windows. Had this been the case, the transition would have been far more discouraging to me. FreeBSD is my preferred OS. I too prefer the using of my brain to more brain-dead OSs. This fact is actually one of the irritants with using Windows now at work. I dislike that Visual Studio thinks it knows better than I do and that everything is so abstracted that it's hard to get down the ground level of what you're doing. And although IntelliSense is nice, still, give me gvim any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cups issue, unsupported format
Hi, I'm working on getting cups working and I've installed the hplip port and the cups program used that to install the printer. At least, there was an HPLIP in a list in one of the pages during the setup. My printer is an old HP LaserJet 4+ which I've connected through the parallel port. My URI for the printer is parallel:/dev/lp0. When I went to do the test page I got this error, Unsupported format 'application/postscript'. Here's the problem, I chose a driver which, though I don't remember the full string in cups, was a 4/5 PCL driver. So, why is it trying to print using postscript? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows
Hi, I don't even know if this has been done before, nor do I know for sure if it's a sound comparison. Never the less, someone posted, in response to someone else here just a few days ago, some very nice benchmarks provided by Kris ?Kenneway? I could be wrong on the last name, it just seems to me that's a last name I've seen with Kris frequently (my apologies Kris if I'm wrong). Using the URL that the other poster, posted, I poked around the other *.html files in that directory, but did not find any with FreeBSD pitted against windows. I'm just curious to see how it looks for my own sanity's sake. At work, someone got the grand idea that we should move to Windoze embedded (CE and XPe) and it's been quite discouraging I must say, though I must admit, it's nice to actually know why Windows is ugly underneath. From a programming perspective, it's just not simplistic. Anyway, I digress, I'm just curious to see how things compare to Windows on similar benchmarks to what Kris provided if its ever been done. Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: gmirror and the UFS file systems
is your partition size multiply of fragment size without remainder? if not (quite a big chance) at least one sector at the end is unused and never be. so go on, but then fix disklabel, as c partition is 1 sector smaller. of course - boot from livecd to do this. Thanks both Mel and Wojciech for the advice. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Installing gimp from ports, need a GTK+, what port is it
On Nov 23, 2008 8:38pm, Michael Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The version of gtk you have installed is too old. Upgrade to the latest version of x11-toolkits/gtk2 Michael Thanks again. Last night I upgraded GTK 2.something using portupgrade and that was the last package the gimp was complaining about. gimp completed the install last night just fine. I was confused about what was the right package because the gimp install was saying that the gtk+ package wasn't present, but the only thing listed as gtk+ was a theme management package when doing a pkg_info. I'm hoping for some clarification on something. Is GTK+ a subset of GTK 2.x? Are they one in the same? If so, why are they known by two different names if they are the same thing? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Installing gimp from ports, need a GTK+, what port is it
On Nov 23, 2008 8:38pm, Michael Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The version of gtk you have installed is too old. Upgrade to the latest version of x11-toolkits/gtk2 Michael Interesting that the new google home page plug-in (I guess) for google mail doesn't have a reply-to-all button for the second response, and presumably further, to the original mail. So, I'm responding to both. Thank you Michael, that's exactly what I was looking for. I didn't know that x11-toolkits/gtk2 is synonymous with GTK+. That was the piece I was missing. To RW, I didn't want to rebuild KDE yet so that's why I hadn't updated all of the installed ports collection as yet. I think I agree with you. At least, with what I'm going through right now, it would be much easier to have updated the entire tree first. Thanks again to both. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to upgrade to KDE4
Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 6.2-p11 (yes, I've got to update). A couple days ago I updated my ports tree and went to update kde 3.5.6. At first I did a portupgrade on the KDE meta-port but, ironically, the only thing that updated was the meta-port (I did a portupgrade -r too). I should also say that I first looked in /usr/ports/UPDATING and there weren't any particular instructions (that I could find) for updating KDE. I opened the file in vim and searched for kde and KDE. On both searches, nothing regarding the specific update of 3.5.x to 4.x was mentioned. I'm having some problems updating the kdebase package now (since the meta-port didn't update the whole thing, I'm updating individually to 3.5.10). It's having some compile time issues, something about an identifier not existing in a particular namespace or some-such error, I've got to look into it further. However, since I'm going through this loathsome process anyway, would it be advisable to just do a deinstall of the kde system and cd to /usr/ports/x11/kde (I think that's where it is) and install 4.x (if that's even how to do it)? I would really prefer to run 4.x. Thanks for any help, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: How to upgrade to KDE4
On Nov 5, 2008 8:24am, Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 6.2-p11 (yes, I've got to update). A couple days ago I updated my ports tree and went to update kde 3.5.6. At first I did a portupgrade on the KDE meta-port but, ironically, the only thing that updated was the meta-port (I did a portupgrade -r too). I should also say that I first looked in /usr/ports/UPDATING and there weren't any particular instructions (that I could find) for updating KDE. I opened the file in vim and searched for kde and KDE. On both searches, nothing regarding the specific update of 3.5.x to 4.x was mentioned. I'm having some problems updating the kdebase package now (since the meta-port didn't update the whole thing, I'm updating individually to 3.5.10). It's having some compile time issues, something about an identifier not existing in a particular namespace or some-such error, I've got to look into it further. However, since I'm going through this loathsome process anyway, would it be advisable to just do a deinstall of the kde system and cd to /usr/ports/x11/kde (I think that's where it is) and install 4.x (if that's even how to do it)? I would really prefer to run 4.x. Thanks for any help, Andy The Handbook has been recently updated with instructions on installing / running KDE4: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html It is also possible to keep both versions installed (since KDE4 installs in a different directory). If you decide to go along this path, I would advise you to set your PATH so that /usr/local/kde4/bin is before /usr/local/bin (when running KDE4). This will prevent inadvertently running kde3.x executables in 4.x. There has been some discussion on the list concerning the usability of KDE4. FWIW, it worked for me but I am not a KDE person anyway (and have only used 3.X a couple of times) and don't need most of the features of such a desktop. YMMV. That is fantastic, thanks. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Authentication with SSH using public keys
Following onto the e-mail I made before, apparently that little permissions difference for the directory, .ssh, was the problem. Changing it to 644 has, apparently, fixed the problem. Cool :) . I learnt this from my first SSH public-key authentication configuration ;) Ashish -- Of course I meant to say that changing the perms to 755 fixed it, not 644. I'm still reviewing the docs but I think that this directory could be made 700, is that correct? Or, at the least, 750? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
