On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
On Saturday 09 April 2005 18:10, Andreas Davour wrote:
Hi!
I have a strange problem in OpenOffice 1.1.4 with italics. Text
formatted as italics doesn't show up in italics on screen. If I cut and
paste som text from an old document it hows up
Hi!
I have a strange problem in OpenOffice 1.1.4 with italics. Text
formatted as italics doesn't show up in italics on screen. If I cut and
paste som text from an old document it hows up properly. This is very
strange, and a quite severe bug - if that's what it is.
I searched the list and
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Frank Staals wrote:
Andreas Davour wrote:
Hi!
I have a strange problem in OpenOffice 1.1.4 with italics. Text formatted
as italics doesn't show up in italics on screen. If I cut and paste som
text from an old document it hows up properly. This is very strange, and a
quite
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After using these tools, installing the epsmegre port (and some
others) and then removing the latter again, the former have stopped
working!
bash-2.05b$ ps2pdf elcFront.ps
Unknown device: pdfwrite
bash-2.05b
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
Hi all,
I noticed that the clisp port is marked broken, so I have to look at other
choices.
Does anyone have any thoughts on the other Lisp ports as a good system to
learn on and use?
Install
/usr/ports/lang/cmucl
/usr/ports/lang/cmucl-extra
After using these tools, installing the epsmegre port (and some others)
and then removing the latter again, the former have stopped working!
bash-2.05b$ ps2pdf elcFront.ps
Unknown device: pdfwrite
bash-2.05b$ ps2epsi elcFront.ps
Unknown device: bit
bash-2.05b$
How come those devices they ask for
I didn't think when I was doing my last install, and now my system has a
domainname it shouldn't have.
Too many different operating systems compete for space in my brain and I
can't seem to find any information about fully qualified domainname in
the fine manual, since all it talks about is
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
If I want to allow external users to log on under only one permissible
username, which immediately and unconditionally executes only one
program (no shell access), via telnet, what is the most secure way to
set this up? I've always understood telnet to
I'v tried to load a few MAC modules and try that security system. This
oddity appeared in dmesg:
mac_policy_modevent: can't load mac_lomac policy after booting
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (mac_lomac, 0xc056f4dc, 0xc1c285c0) error
16
Can someone here tell me what that means? Is there maybe a
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Christopher Nehren wrote:
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On 2005-03-24, Andreas Davour scribbled these
curious markings:
I'v tried to load a few MAC modules and try that security system. This
oddity appeared in dmesg:
mac_policy_modevent: can't load mac_lomac
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2005-03-22 23:02, Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
In KDE, after having added my own xmodmap to the .xinitrc file, I
though that they might appear. No such luck. Even after setting the
keyboard
I have hit upon another problem with my new system. Acroread is now
version 7 (what was wrong with the previous version, Adobe? *shrug*) and
since it is a Linux binary it naturally depends on Linux libraries. But,
some of those libraries are missing. Anyone having the same problem?
I searched
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:54:04PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote:
I have hit upon another problem with my new system. Acroread is now
version 7 (what was wrong with the previous version, Adobe? *shrug*) and
since it is a Linux binary it naturally depends
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
On stardate Wed, 23 Mar 2005, the wise Andreas Davour entered:
I have hit upon another problem with my new system. Acroread is now version
7 (what was wrong with the previous version, Adobe? *shrug*) and since it
is a Linux binary it naturally depends
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
On stardate Wed, 23 Mar 2005, the wise Andreas Davour entered:
Exactly the same.
As Erik (et al) wrote, it will all be pulled in and resolved as
dependencies if you have a sufficienyly up-to-date ports tree.
Kind of annyoing that it wasn't caught
I have an odd problem. I can't get any 8-bit characters
to show up after an upgrade.
On the console nothing happens after I run kbdmap and choose Swedish
ISO-8859-1. It just beeps, and prints the non-Swedish characters like
before.
In KDE, after having added my own xmodmap to the .xinitrc file,
Thanks for you response!
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
In KDE, after having added my own xmodmap to the .xinitrc file, I
though that they might appear. No such luck. Even after setting the
keyboard layout on Control Panel/Regional/Keyboard Layout to Swedish
do they not appear.
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
You have probably forgotten to set the locale related stuff correctly in
your environment. What does the following in one of your shells?
% env | grep LANG
% env | grep LC_
Nothing at all. Though, I never did fiddle with locales before
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Christopher San Diego wrote:
I'm a confused newbie whose been (re)installing FreeBSD 5.3 Release
for the past week or two.
I've read the handbook and various other documents concerning updating
FreeBSD only to learn that -STABLE and -CURRENT are both development
branches.
Take
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Andreas Davour wrote:
I have just rebuilt my system and a few things aren't as they used to be.
When I try to start X with Xwrapper no xterms or other windows appear.
Isn't Xwrapper starting the stuff in .xinitrc like startx used
I have just rebuilt my system and a few things aren't as they used to
be. When I try to start X with Xwrapper no xterms or other windows
appear. Isn't Xwrapper starting the stuff in .xinitrc like startx used
to do for me (but wont do, since it no longer has the authority to do
so)??
Isn't
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have read the handbook about firewalls, and compiled my kernel
without switching on any explicit support for pf.
Now, when I ran the mergemaster it suddenly found a lot of references
to pf in my startup scripts
I have read the handbook about firewalls, and compiled my kernel without
switching on any explicit support for pf.
Now, when I ran the mergemaster it suddenly found a lot of references to
pf in my startup scripts.
Is pf some kind of mandatory part of the base system these days? I
thought it
Hi!
I've tried to compile and link a small game written with the Allegro
API. For some odd reason the linker just don't understand how to resolve
the symbols in the library. It just can't accept that the library is in
a .so file and not an .a archive, and even when I point it out
explicitly it
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Mar 02), Andreas Davour said:
I've tried to compile and link a small game written with the Allegro
API. For some odd reason the linker just don't understand how to
resolve the symbols in the library. It just can't accept that the
library
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
and the errors I get looks like this:
/usr/local/lib//liballeg.so: undefined reference to `_poly_zbuf_atex_trans8'
/usr/local/lib//liballeg.so: undefined reference to
`_poly_scanline_atex_mask_lit32'
This is the linker saying there are symbols in liballeg.so
I've been reading the handbook, the man pages and been trying to do some
inventive maneuvers. I don't work.
So, I have the bridge module loaded, I have the if_tap module loaded. I
have activated the tap/tun device with 'cat /dev/tap0 |tun0'.
How do I set up the bridge? I've read the manpage
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Gregor Mosheh wrote:
My employer is looking for solutions to achieve
zero-downtime in the event of a hardware failure. I've
been doing sysadmin for some time, but this is out of
my league, and I wanted to ask the list for any
advice, hints, etc.
What you need then is some kind
I started to do some research for a kernel compile that should migrate
my system into the future I came upon the line options bpf in the
kernel config file.
I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really understood
the role of bpf. Is it supposed to be enabled when I use IPFW or
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:09:55PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote:
I started to do some research for a kernel compile that should migrate
my system into the future I came upon the line options bpf in the
kernel config file.
I have searched the handbook
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Charles Swiger wrote:
On Jan 5, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Andreas Davour wrote:
I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really understood the
role of bpf. Is it supposed to be enabled when I use IPFW or is it another
beast altogether, best left undisturbed?
The BPF
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Olivier Certner wrote:
I'm not able to give a deep answer on that. What I can say is that you must
compile the kernel with bpf if you want to use the DHCP protocol or the
tcpdump utility.
tcpdump as well? Worth remembering.
It would be great if someone can clarify the precise
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:02:17AM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote:
Hi!
On my FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE GENERIC (yeah, I will upgrade soon) I can't
get the gcc3.4 port to compile.
Unless I'm mistaken, gcc3.4 is used for 5.3 nowdays. Do I dare to
upgrade to 5.3 or do
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
Although I've been using FreeBSD for several years, I have not been
active with mailing lists at all. I preferred to use newsgroups search
and a little bit of posting.
I am wondering, why mailing list is the official support mechanism (as
opposed to
Hi!
On my FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE GENERIC (yeah, I will upgrade soon) I can't
get the gcc3.4 port to compile.
Unless I'm mistaken, gcc3.4 is used for 5.3 nowdays. Do I dare to
upgrade to 5.3 or do I have the chance of ending up with a broken
compiler?
Or, is it just that the port is broken for
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, ice wrote:
I know this has been asked already, but it's a slightly different
problem. Let me explain my situation first: I'm 14 years old without
my own PC. I can't let the FreeBSD bootloader install on the first
drive (Windows XP), because my family is kinda...how should I
I have this odd behaviour from both my 5.2 and my 5.3 installations.
GENERIC or my own.
When booting the console displays the usual messages like below:
1 Starting local daemons:.
2 Updating motd.
3 Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime.
4 Initial i386 initialization:.
5 Additional ABI support:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote:
When booting the console displays the usual messages like below:
1 Starting local daemons:.
2 Updating motd.
3 Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime.
What is strange is that after line 3 the computer suddenly stops for a
long time, almost a minute, doing (as far
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote:
/etc/hosts basically serves as a backup for cases where the DNS does not
work. Seems to me as if sshd is crating the seem to hang up as it can't get
the box hostname resolved properly.
Sshd? It shouldn't even be running! I guess I'll have to see if it is...
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote:
/etc/hosts basically serves as a backup for cases where the DNS does
not
work. Seems to me as if sshd is crating the seem to hang up as it can't
get
the box hostname resolved properly.
Sshd? It shouldn't even be running! I
Since I did my last cvsup I have had many annoying problems, many
related to firefox. This about KDE is even more annoying.
So, is there any permanent solution to the KDE setting my volume to 0?
I saw some reply to the problem about removing a file somewhere, which
didn't stop the volume from
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Kent Stewart wrote:
On Friday 29 October 2004 02:06 pm, Andreas Davour wrote:
Since I did my last cvsup I have had many annoying problems, many
related to firefox. This about KDE is even more annoying.
So, is there any permanent solution to the KDE setting my volume to 0?
I
I have stumbled on some problem with the Firefox port, version 1.0.1.p,
and the advice in the UPDATING file don't work.
I have removed the old .mozilla directory, but when the new one is
created the same old problem stays.
It says:
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, albi wrote:
*** loading the extensions datasource
over and over again and never starts. Anyone know how to fix this?
i had the same, after starting Firefox as root first (just for one time)
it now works fine for the normal users
Thanks for your answers!
Didn't work though,
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Rishi Chopra wrote:
Is there a way to issue a shutdown command that
doesn't require me to press a key to reboot?
Currently when I enter the command 'shutdown -p' the
system shuts down gracefully but I have to press a key
to reboot the system.
Ultimately I'd like to be able to
I have just tried a portupgrade and suffer from an uncommon amount of
problems building many programs.
One that has been built but isn't doing like it it is the Firefox 0.9
port.
Why is it that all my bookmarks are gone? How do I make it recognize all
the extensions I hav installed, and where
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list,
1. I've added a 'paw' menu to access the main menu, but I'd like the
win-key to open this menu. possible?
Almost anything is possible, if you work hard enough. Please tell us more
about what your environment is before you expect any
Since I just recently trashed a lot of my X-libs, I have no idea if this
is even possible to get to work, by anyway. I have a friend who is stuck
in the windoze rut and he have told me zillions of times I have to plat
Enemy Territory with him. I realized that it was to be found under
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jorn Argelo wrote:
Andreas Davour wrote:
Since I just recently trashed a lot of my X-libs, I have no idea if this
is even possible to get to work, by anyway. I have a friend who is stuck
in the windoze rut and he have told me zillions of times I have to plat
Enemy
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Miguel Mendez wrote:
Hi,
[Enemy Territory run attempt]
...loading libGL.so.1: QGL_Init: dlopen libGL.so.1 failed: libGL.so.1:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
failed
- CL_Shutdown -
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
---
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The latter sounds triesome. I remember how long time it took to compile
OpenOffice and all of KDE, even om my 1200MHz machine.
Yeah, those are well-known for taking forever to compile.
I think you might be in luck with KDE since that seems
Hi.
Apart from the obvious answer to use the backup, is there any way to get
it all back in /usr/X11R6/lib after you did a 'rm -fr' to many?
I have reinstalled the /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 port which I had hoped
would pull back in all needed stuff. But, now X complains about some
missing parts
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:34:02AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote:
Hi.
Apart from the obvious answer to use the backup, is there any way to get
it all back in /usr/X11R6/lib after you did a 'rm -fr' to many?
I have reinstalled the /usr/ports
Hi!
I stumbled upon a page that complained that I had to install a java plugin
to view the page. I do have a java jvm installed but din't think and
clicked the webpage and told it to install that Linux plugin, since it
would probably work better than the Windows one anyway.
Now, afterwards
Hi!
I've been staring at the beastie during startup quite a bit now. Even
though he is a handsome chap to stare at, I still think 10 seconds each
boot is a bit to much.
Can someone tell me how I configure the loader to decrease the time delay?
I kind of figured it would be found in the
On Mon, 24 May 2004, Frank Mueller wrote:
Just add the following line to your /boot/loader.conf:
autoboot_delay=SECONDS
and set the time in seconds for SECONDS.
Thanks! I'll try that.
/andreas
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mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 24 May 2004, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (May 24), Andreas Davour said:
I've been staring at the beastie during startup quite a bit now. Even
though he is a handsome chap to stare at, I still think 10 seconds
each boot is a bit to much.
Can someone tell me how I
On Sat, 8 May 2004, w sx wrote:
Thanks you - Worked great!
Glad I could be of help.
Happy hacking!
/Andreas
=== Emacs =
mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Americans have different ways of saying things.
They say 'elevator', we say 'lift' ...
On Mon, 3 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I am having some problems building the arts-1.2.2,1 port.
The box is freshly installed cvsuped, with only portupgrade installed.
I ran portinstall -v -m BATCH=YES kde to install X kde.
Here is the error I get:
I can't help you with
I wanted to send my heartfelt thanks to all who chimed in with helpful
suggestions on my portupgrade problem.
I have now learned that ports-all is proably the best option for a
ports-supfile, and I'll have to look into the issue about a refuse file
instead when I want to limit the selection.
I
So, now I have a new and shiny KDE3.2 installed. Great desktop and all, I
still have hit ona minor snafu, though. I hope anyone here can help me
with it. If there is a better list for KDE related questions, please let
me know.
Well. I used RiscOS looking window decorations before, but now after
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote:
[snip]
If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't
get a new version of Firefox to compile without atk so I'm very interested
in getting this to work.
I
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
It is best to have a ports tree that contains almost
everything except foreign languages when using BSD on
a workstation or in a desktop environment --- there are
so many dependancies.
So I thought. I edited away everything that was
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Kent Stewart wrote:
Firefox depends on gtk-2.4.0, which depends on atk. All of these
problems relate back to updating dependancies of glib-2.4.0.
Ok, that at least explains why atk seems so important.
The question at this point is what you updated and the order. If you
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
Andreas Davour wrote:
Hi!
And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new
cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!?
Because it's a dependancy of about 538 distinct
ports, at least
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Martin Hudec wrote:
Hi Andreas,
don't you really have atk in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk directory?
No.
Perhaps look into ports-supfile.. do you have there ports-all enabled?
No, I have it commented out, since I left all the individual ports
collections in there
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Gary Kline wrote:
If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb
-Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron? That's how I
make sure tht my ports tree is neat nd clean.
Well, when I have succeeded in doing a portupgrade by hand I think
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