Re: Problems With K3b

of creating temporary backups and reinstalling them if things go wrong. Portmaster should be adequate for most of your needs, portupgrade offers more features but at the expense of a bit more complexity -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Detecting cards in USB card reader

of having no support for writing to block devices instead of having a specific means of detecting or checking for a media change in the card reader. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Clarification Of In Place Upgrade Process

) - Reboot -- Mike Clarke ___ 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

Detecting cards in USB card reader

to raw devices and was wondering if there was any suitable usbconfig or HAL incantation which could be used to achieve the desired effect in a safer looking way. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Detecting cards in USB card reader

operator0, 176 6 Feb 23:15 /dev/da0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 129 6 Feb 23:18 /dev/da0s1 I can use this to initialise the card reader but I'd feel more comfortable with something a bit less dangerous looking. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd

Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

On Thursday 04 February 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? I'm running Firefox 3.5.7 with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 on 8.0-RELEASE-p2, some flash videos work but many fail. For example BBC iplayer always comes up with a message

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

paired them up the same way as before so went ahead, everything started up OK and gmirror status shows the status for both mirrors as COMPLETE. Now I'm wondering if I was just lucky or if it just doesn't matter if the order of mirror consumers is interchanged after creation. -- Mike Clarke

Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

iplayer always comes up with a message This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later superimposed over a still image of the start of the video. YouTube videos play but without any sound. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Pain finding packages

needs. Or, for more compact output, try this script: #!/bin/sh cd /usr/ports make search name=$1 | egrep ^(Port|Path|Info|Moved) | less -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Software RAID options

an entire disk http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ so you could create matching slices on the disks and still have the spare space of the larger disk available for use as non-mirrored space. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

be a good idea to reduce the last partition by one block anyway in case my usage changes in the future? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: OOo question.....

On Sunday 17 January 2010, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:27:59AM +, Mike Clarke wrote: On Saturday 16 January 2010, Gary Kline wrote: [snip] Second q is howto use them for my desktop backgrounds in KDE since, upon rebuild and relaunch, everything is black

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

On Saturday 16 January 2010, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Saturday 16 January 2010 00:34:52 Mike Clarke wrote: I'm about to upgrade to more disk space and I'm tempted use this as an opportunity to get two disks and implement gmirror. Before I go ahead there's a few aspects of mirroring I'm

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

On Sunday 17 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: Mike Clarke wrote: Actually I was more concerned about what happens when I boot into another OS like Windows or Linux on one of the spare slices - I'm assuming that I have to apply gmirror to the whole disk rather than just selected slices

Re: OOo question.....

image. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: vi editing

that with vi? :%s/^/new word/ -- Mike Clarke ___ 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

Newbie gmirror questions

articles say to set it to 16. Although I'll probably be creating the mirror on my disks before copying my system onto them so I don't really need to worry about setting this flag but I'm curious to know the difference between using the two values. -- Mike Clarke

Solved: Problems building en-openoffice.org-GB-3.1.1 from ports

On Saturday 02 January 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: After successfully moving from 6.4 to 8.0 by doing a clean install I've embarked on the task of rebuilding OpenOffice from ports :-( I'm getting a confusing error in the config stage

Re: pkg_info fails with leave_playpen: can't chdir back to ''

the leave_playpen problem since then. It might be just coincidence or it may be that pkg_info just got confused by all the links to wrong and non-existent libraries. Could it be that the ports in your main system are corrupt but those in the jail are clean? -- Mike Clarke

Re: Problems building en-openoffice.org-GB-3.1.1 from ports

On Sunday 03 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: Mike Clarke wrote: After pondering a bit more over this problem I think I know where the 6.4 stuff may have come from. After I built the base system I copied various useful files from /root on the 6.4 system, including /root/.cshrc which

Re: Problems building en-openoffice.org-GB-3.1.1 from ports

On Saturday 02 January 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: ... and the build of OpenOffice ran through the configure stage without any problems so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it'll still be compiling tomorrow. Well it went a bit further but failed with the following

Problems building en-openoffice.org-GB-3.1.1 from ports

being too old. I've now put this task on the back burner while I ask for advice here instead of digging an even deeper hole for myself. I assume that at least 3.0.0 refers to the version of gperf but I already have gperf-3.0.3. Does this look like a bug or have I done something wrong? -- Mike

Re: Problems building en-openoffice.org-GB-3.1.1 from ports

portupgrade -af and rebuild all the ports. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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

pkg_info fails with leave_playpen: can't chdir back to ''

file for printing on a postscript printer aalib-1.4.r5_4 An ascii art library adobe-cmaps-20051217_1 Adobe CMap collection pkg_info: leave_playpen: can't chdir back to '' -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: problem with Olympus USB camera on 8.0 RELEASE

On Sunday 29 November 2009, krad wrote: 2009/11/28 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk The camera in question is an Olympus C-2040Z, I've had no problems using it with 6.4. I tried rev. 7 some time ago but plugging the camera in always caused a panic and crash so I stayed with 6.4

problem with Olympus USB camera on 8.0 RELEASE

: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 62MB (128000 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 62C) -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Dump

. This problem can be corrected by creating a .snap directory in the root of the file system to be dumped; its owner should be ``root'', its group should be ``operator'', and its mode should be ``0770''. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Firefox 3.5 mutex error

I can't get firefox-3.5,1 to run on my 6.4 system. It fails with the message Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.' at line 986 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_mutex.c (errno = 13). My ports tree was updated 2 days ago and I ran portupgrade -a afterwards. -- Mike Clarke

Re: still no speil checking with openoffice.org-3.1

button remains greyed out on OOo-3.1.0 The patch at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/127946 fixed it for me. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

a couple of days ago in the Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-June/200251.html. I don't know if the problem will apply to other 6150 based systems or if it's just unique to my particular setup. -- Mike Clarke

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

-nv port are available for both i386 and amd64 so you should have no problem. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE

on this 64bit platform. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE

On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: No, in the absence of a 64 bit driver from Nvidia you'd need to use the nv driver included in the xorg-drivers port. I had quite a struggle to get the nv driver to give

Portupgrade very slow upgrading gtk-sharp

561 20 2 kserel Should mono be grabbing so much CPU? It only took 8 hours to build OpenOffice earlier in the week! -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

cups and ghostscript recursive dependency problem

try next? -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: cups and ghostscript recursive dependency problem

, then please update the port and try again. That was the cause, I had portversion 4. Updating to 5 fixed it. Thanks for the help. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: root user, graphical programs

in the username and password for root. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: Building gimp without gvfs

On Sunday 10 May 2009, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 03:00:26PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: Each time gimp-app gets upgraded I lose the ability to open URI's with Open location or by dragging images from firefox. [snip] The gimp-app port Makefile should be hacked so

Building gimp without gvfs

this option added to CONFIGURE_ARGS automatically? [1] http://www.shallowsky.com/blog/gimp/index.html [2] http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Problems after upgrading to xorg-7.4_1

option. I still need to fix my problem with the nv and nvidia drivers but I've discovered that things work OK with the vesa driver so I'll use that for now. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Problems after upgrading to xorg-7.4_1

module nvidia (loader failed, 7) (EE) No drivers available. Fatal server error: no screens found Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Please also check the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for additional information. -- Mike Clarke

Do I need both gcc-4.2 and gcc-4.3?

space needed but portupgrade sometimes results in having to upgrade 2 copies of gcc which is quite time consuming. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: clear old output in login screen?

On Tuesday 05 May 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Monday 04 May 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: ... ? #!/bin/csh ? clear ? vidcontrol -C ? exec /usr/bin/login.real $@ But this wouldn't prevent someone scrolling back

Re: clear old output in login screen?

containing something like:   #!/bin/csh   clear   vidcontrol -C   exec /usr/bin/login.real $@ But this wouldn't prevent someone scrolling back with the scroll lock key before logging in. I assume the OP's requirement is to stop people from seeing previous users console activity. -- Mike

Re: Chicken and egg

by running pkgdb -F to remove a superfluous dependency. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

but the problematic characters are invisible there. Would the php addcslashes() function do what you need? ?php $in = This is the input from the web server; $out = addcslashes($in,\n); var_dump ($out); ? This results in: string(42) This\nis\nthe\ninput\nfrom the\nweb server -- Mike Clarke

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

know I can unplug it. The scripts are a bit primitive and get totally confused if I insert more than one USB storage device at a time so would need some refinement for general use but work OK for me as the only user on this PC. -- Mike Clarke

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

assumptions about how the filesystem has been labeled. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: insert new line in files

dependence on the shell by using a sed script, e.g. curlew:/tmp% cat test.txt 1 2 3 4 5 6 curlew:/tmp% cat test.sed #! /usr/bin/sed -f 5i\ test curlew:/tmp% ./test.sed test.txt 1 2 3 4 test 5 6 -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Force use of 'gpg2'

gnupg-1 and running dpkg -F to fix the dependencies. I've only got gnupg-2 installed here and everything seems to work OK. The install script for gnupg-2 creates a symlink for gpg if it doesn't already exist. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Steps to upgrade from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE

between these versions but I couldn't get those instructions to work at all. I'm sure it works great on 5.0 but I kind of fell for 7.1 like a school kid lol. It's well worth getting yourself a copy of Michael Lucas's Absolute FreeBSD 2nd edition. It's an excellent companion for 7.x. -- Mike

Re: coretemp for AMD?

On Sunday 25 January 2009, Tore Lund wrote: Mike Clarke wrote: But I get sensible looking results for my Athlon 64 X2 4850e with the following command: sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature For some reason it works on your 4850e. But for some of us this command does not work

Re: coretemp for AMD?

can't see dev.cpu.?.temperature. Is this even the same coretemp as the website talks about windows a lot? That looks like a totally different Windows only application. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: coretemp for AMD?

down from 2500 to 1000. Turning off powerd pushes the temperature up to 30C. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: kvm switch

the monitor was connected to one of the other boxes then KDE started up in 1024x768 mode instead if the monitor's default 1280x1024 mode. But that was easily sorted with a minor tweak to xorg.conf. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

kgdb - problem obtaining a backtrace

-s .data 0xc0df5000 -s .bss 0xc0df73a0 add-symbol-file /boot/kernel/linux.ko.symbols 0xc55a9080 -s .data 0xc55bf080 -s .bss 0xc55c16e0 ... which I specified in a source command in kgdb -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: [6.3] Assigning shutdown to eg. Syst?

, far better to let (and encourage) him use shutdown instead -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: updating php5-pcre

anymore. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: removing a php5-pcre extension

extension is distributed with the core php5 package, and not as a standalone module anymore. Follow these steps to update your installation: Portupgrade users: pkg_delete -f php5-pcre-5.2.6 pkgdb -F portupgrade as usual -- Mike Clarke

Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning

and it worked like a charm, installing Hunspell Spellchecker module and dictionary files. Hope this helps. Thanks for your help Nikola. I downloaded and ran DictOOo-Wizard and it worked perfectly. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning

or have I missed anything when installing the port? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Further problems with gimp-help

. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gimp-help not working after portupgrade

in front of 33677376). Any suggestions where I go from here? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gimp-help not working after portupgrade

? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gimp-help not working after portupgrade

of the preferences dialog has a message saying The user manual is not installed locally. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin

was still running php4 resulted in phpMyAdmin acquiring a dependency on php5, which it promptly installed alongside php4 creating quite a bit of chaos in the process. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin

installing the new packages but still have the same problem. What should I do to persuade the old version to go? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin

On Wednesday 22 October 2008, Paul Schmehl wrote: Have you tried pkg_delete phpMyAdmin* ? Yes, already done that - it segfaults immediately :-( -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin

the newer versions of Apache and PHP, it was just by chance that there was still a copy of phpMyAdmin on the system but in view of the security vulnerability in 2.11.5.2 I thought I'd better replace it with 3.0.0_1. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Disable kontact/kmail automatic activation

session option in the Session Manager section. Alternatively, if you don't want anything to start up, miss out the Save Session step and use the Start with an empty session option in the Session Manager. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours

. But it is certainly good enough for normal day to day use and I don't mind switching to Windows for the occasional high quality photo print. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours

the Pixma IP4500 on a Linux system (Fedora fc9) but the supplied foomatic driver just spat out blank pages. Turboprint produced excellent results but there's no FreeBSD version and I expect getting it to run under Linux emulation would be difficult or even impossible. -- Mike Clarke

Re: Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours

and filed your email for reference - I'll report back when I've tried it. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours

demonstrate what's happening. CUPS is using the ppd file extracted from /usr/local/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.1/en_GB/stp-bjc-PIXMA-iP4500.5.1.ppd.gz. I'll not post the contents here ( 2000 lines) but there's a copy at http://www.milibyte.co.uk/Canon.ppd if anybody's interested. -- Mike

Re: Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours

On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:46:29PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: I've just installed a Canon Pixma iP4500 on a 6.3 system using CUPS and gutenprint. Black printing is fine but I've got problems with colours. The colour wheel on the CUPS test

Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours

of the box or do I have to fiddle about with the multitude of output control adjustments available on the CUPS admin panel? Or should I be using something other than CUPS, that's what I've always used so far but I'm happy to try alternatives if necessary. -- Mike Clarke

Re: OO 2.4.1 package problem

with an error. That was on a low powered system with a Duron 1600 and only 750 MB memory. Now that I've got a 2.5GHz Athlon X2 4850e and 2 GB memory it might be worth another try. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: switching discs during install

this would require some changes to pkg_add to prevent it from installing dependencies and I expect the possible benefits would not be considered to be sufficient to justify the effort. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: switching discs during install

to date, either as a daytime task if there's not too many ports to upgrade or after an overnight run of portupgrade -aFR if there's a lot to do. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

to investigating it. I'd be inclined to install GRUB on FreeBSD from ports and remove it from the Ubuntu system. FreeBSD won't mess with your GRUB config files. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: question -updating package + ignore depend

site and re-install firebug. I had to create a link to /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.5.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so in /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins. Apart from that everything seems fine. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Xerox Phaser 6110 printer

Printer Language. The splix port lists 13 Xerox printers of which only the 3117 and 6100 are known to work, the rest are Untested. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Xerox Phaser 6110 printer

as Unix and how good mostly is. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xerox Phaser 6110 printer

as Untested. I don't have the necessary skills to hack the driver if things don't work so it looks like I'll probably have to eliminate this model from my list unless I can get any feedback from anybody who is successfully using one with FreeBSD. -- Mike Clarke

Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......

energy efficient CPUs like AMD 4850e, 2.5 GHz dual core 45 watts. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Some ports ignored by portversion

/gnutls curlew:/root# pkgdb -o unison-2.13.16_1 ? ? curlew:/root# How do I repair my ports? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Panic: spin lock held too long when booting

On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: Mike Clarke wrote: I'm getting frequent panics due to spin lock held too long when booting my recently built 6.3 system with an Athlon 4850e dual core processor on a Foxconn 6150M2MA motherboard (GeForce 6150 and nForce 430 chipsets). [snip

Panic: spin lock held too long when booting

when building the kernel there were lines like ... objcopy --strip-debug kernel.debug kernel ... though I do still have /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CURLEW/kernel.debug. should I be doing something with this? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Panic: spin lock held too long when booting

On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: Mike Clarke wrote: I'm getting frequent panics due to spin lock held too long when booting my recently built 6.3 system with an Athlon 4850e dual core processor on a Foxconn 6150M2MA motherboard (GeForce 6150 and nForce 430 chipsets). [snip

Re: PACKAGESITE

-PP) might do what the OP wants? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printer Installation

slightly different wording) wasn't introduced until 7.0. I also have WITH_CUPS=yes in /etc/make.conf. I understand that some ports make use of it. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Passive cooling problem with Athlon CPU

on acpi0 acpi_hpet0: High Precision Event Timer iomem 0xfeff-0xfeff03ff on acpi0 device_attach: acpi_hpet0 attach returned 12 -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Passive cooling problem with Athlon CPU

hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: 68.0C -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._TC1: 4 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._TC2: 3 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._TSP: 60 -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Rev 7.0 kernel panic with USB camera

/exception.s:139 #7 0x in ?? () Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) (kgdb) -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: disallow remote root / allow remote root by key

this machine) log in remotely as root? Yes, on the remote server set PermitRootLogin to without-password instead of no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and append your your public key from the remote machine into /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. -- Mike Clarke

Re: Renaming root to homer?

/denyhosts is quite good for permanently blocking access from IP's that make suspicious ssh probes. It reduces garbage in the logs too because after a remote address gets blocked future probes from it get rejected before they even get as far as being logged. -- Mike Clarke

Re: Renaming root to homer?

but it ensures that root using ssh must use keys instead of a password. Adding your own public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine avoids the need for you to remember the remote password. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions

Re: where is FreeBSD on ftp.uk.freebsd.org?

that it will give them such an out of date view of FreeBSD. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Non aligned DMA transfer errors with k3b

and hw.ata.atapi_dma to zero stops the errors but with a big performance hit so that's not an option for a permanent fix. I've now run out of ideas for what to try next so any suggestions would be welcome. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

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