Re: FreeBsd

2011-01-20 Thread Polytropon
o start this project.?? To become familiar with FreeBSD, you should USE it. There is great documentation on the FreeBSD website. When you want to port something, you should read the "FreeBSD Porter's Handbook", also available from the main web site. -- Polytrop

Re: Can't open serial line /dev/cuaa0: no such file or direcotry (2)

2011-01-21 Thread Polytropon
rogram you're intending to use does require the "conventional" serial driver that would create /dev/cuaa* entries. See the related man pages for more details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: Should I use the standard-supfile or stable-supfile?

2011-01-21 Thread Polytropon
age) - that's overkill. As an addition: It may be an option to switch to binary updates (using the freebsd-update program) if you want to track -RELEASE for GENERIC kernel anyway. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: troubles rebuilding extensions.ini

2011-01-21 Thread Polytropon
ouble hides in a dependency of a dependency... :-) Just see "man ports" for a list of all targets. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: troubles rebuilding extensions.ini

2011-01-22 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:18:28 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:43:23AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > Just see "man ports" for a list of all targets. > > Ye Gods. The ports manpage is almost unreadable. Not to > mention full of non-AS

Re: Burning a DVD

2011-01-22 Thread Polytropon
r ATAPI") -> /dev/cd0, and therefore /dev/dvd -> /dev/cd0 for simplified access. Given you set the permissions correctly, burning DVDs as a non-root user should be no problem. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

TV test image generator using mencoder

2011-01-23 Thread Polytropon
or a look out of the window across the street) is buch better for making QUALIFIED statements about signal quality. Adjustments to the equipment can be done more easily. I've tried to do this with mencoder, but can't get any usable results. How would you suggest to get this done? -- Pol

Re: Monting nfs at boot

2011-01-26 Thread Polytropon
c.d/mountlate to learn how it works (and if it fits your requirements). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Very Important Note on HP LaserJet P1102 on FreeBSD

2011-01-27 Thread Polytropon
gt; printers have an embedded web server. They often do also have a built-in printer queue, so basically you're querying the PRINTER with the lp* commands - in most cases very efficient. > They also support management and > monitoring via SNMP, which is very helpful. Maybe not at hom

Re: future of the desktop

2011-01-27 Thread Polytropon
member: FreeBSD had "hotplug capabilities" and "automounter" for many years, even BEFORE HAL and DBUS came to desktop land. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questio

Re: Printing from inside the applications in FreeBSD 8.1 with CUPS

2011-01-27 Thread Polytropon
(CUPS's tools) to address your default print queue. > Right now, in order to print I choose Print to File "as PostScript" > and use command line cat PostScriptFile | /usr/local/bin/lp to print. This is what Firefox does itself. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Instructions on Installing HP LaserJet P1102 on FreeBSD 8 (solved)

2011-01-28 Thread Polytropon
od to know that it is at least possible (with hard work not common to UNIX operations) to make it work. Thank you for your little HOWTO, I will keep it in mind - and hope I *never* will have to deal with such a "printer". :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user s

Re: Using foo2zjs filter without CUPS (with FreeBSD's standard LPD instead)

2011-02-02 Thread Polytropon
d works fine and I may simply use that as > output port and there is nothing CUPS-dependent in foo2zjs. True. Get rid of the CUPS monster and use the excellent system tools to do this simple job. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Why does my 8.2-RC3 dvd1 boot DOS?

2011-02-04 Thread Polytropon
dia to be shipped with PCs that come with an OEM provided OS. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: kern.crit messages

2011-02-06 Thread Polytropon
s from the loader prompt). 6. `mergemaster -p' 7. `make installworld' 8. `make delete-old' 9. `mergemaster' (you may wish to use -U or -ai). 10. `reboot' 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) You'll also se

Re: shutdown computer after the halt command

2011-02-07 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:38:50 -0800, Devin Teske wrote: > Of course, many of us still remember the days when it standard fare to > "sync; sync; halt". Erm... what about "sync; sync; init 0"? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4

Re: switching from gnu make to bsd make

2011-02-10 Thread Polytropon
to be compatible. Of course, in my testing case OBJDIR and SRCDIR are empty, and I didn't define any of CC, CFLAGS, INCDIR or LIBDIR, so the defaults have been chosen. Do you encounter a specific problem? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, German

Re: Recording from sound card

2011-02-11 Thread Polytropon
foo.au or % rec bar.wav And sox provides other excellent command line tools for audio manipulation (sox, play, rec); see "man sox" for details. Note that "play " is easier than cat'ing the file to the dsp device directly (which may requir

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-12 Thread Polytropon
reasons: (A) the computer itself will fail or at least considered outdated after that time, so it will get replaced, and (B) there are backups. Yes. There ARE backups. > Makes > a big difference in performance and makes the computer much more > pleasant to work on. Definitely, but consider

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Polytropon
the author of a web page wishes to exclude me from participating on his content, it's his ABSOLUTE right. But: There is NO right to require propretary and even financially-oriented software, protocols, mechanisms or other stuff to participate on a free and standardized structure of serv

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Polytropon
oesn't mean that others have to judge the same way. Oh, and you don't really need it when you already know the keyboard shortcuts, which is ESSENTIAL for serious work (because it's faster). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 An

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Polytropon
't feel it is THAT BAD. There are, however, applications where this kind of interface, if consistently used, would be a benefit for the user. I suggest you have a look at this: http://toastytech.com/guis/win72.html It's part of the "Windows 7" article of the &q

Re: Stuck

2011-02-13 Thread Polytropon
ven't quite > figured out where I went wrong. If you can provide command output. You can use the program "script" to make a copy of all terminal input/output to a file. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Stuck

2011-02-13 Thread Polytropon
efault kernel (which doesn't require KERNCONF= in the make commands). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Stuck

2011-02-13 Thread Polytropon
ng). You should then end up with a fully functional updated system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-14 Thread Polytropon
triangle", let alone the "letter board", is too complicated for many. I could see that in reality... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Redux

2011-02-14 Thread Polytropon
I don't know of a process that changes /etc/fstab automatically... You can still use the device names for the /etc/fstab entries, you just need to make sure that you select the correct names (as you described above). Then there should be no problem as labels are optional. -- Polyt

Re: Redux

2011-02-15 Thread Polytropon
ls is that the drive's position during the recognition by the system (ad0, ad1, ad2, ...) doesn't matter. Say you move the hard drive from a defective controller (ad0) to a PCI replacement controller (ad4), labels won't change, and booting would happen as usual. -- Polytropon Magdebu

Re: android

2011-02-15 Thread Polytropon
manent option (e. g. in /etc/fstab) for it if you want. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: android

2011-02-15 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:58:24 +, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:39 +0100 > Polytropon wrote: > > > You can check the partitioning of the da4 device with > > > > # fdisk da4 > > "gpart show da4" is the modern way of doing this

Re: android

2011-02-16 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:41:08 -0500, "ill...@gmail.com" wrote: > On 16 February 2011 03:45, wrote: > > Bruce Cran wrote: > >> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:39 +0100 > >> Polytropon wrote: > >> > You can check the partitioning of the da4 device wit

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-16 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:18:47 -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: > It sounds like I really need to learn > about dump/restore. You should - it's fundamental UNIX basic knowledge. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi en

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-18 Thread Polytropon
(e. g. due to security concerns). For synchronization, rsync is a fine tool. I would also like to mention the cpdup program (found in ports) which is also very handy for rsync-like tasks. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:57:02 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > Sometimes there can be activation issues with OEM versions of Windows > XP. They're usually keyed to the manufacturer's BIOS. Not a problem anymore - after 2014. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBS

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-19 Thread Polytropon
already understood the strange concept that by purchasing a "Windows", either by a shiny package or as preinstalled part of a bundle with PC hardware, you do not own it, you're not allow to do with it as you please, instead you rent a limited right to just "use" it under ce

Re: Stuck

2011-02-19 Thread Polytropon
custom config > > c. needs to be able to extract the config verbatim from the compiled kernel > > > > YNMV (Your Needs May Vary). > > -- > > Devin > > > > > > Not off topic at all, and much appreciated. A lot of what has been > offered as

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-15 Thread Polytropon
ECK the disk without altering anything (also see "man fsck" for -n, -v and maybe -d). Addendum: For dealing with non-standard file systems (such as FAT/msdosfs), the use of the _native tools_ seems to be the best solution in most times. In exceptions, it makes things worse. Still

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-15 Thread Polytropon
me means to "extrapolate" the missing data. http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-question

Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

2012-07-19 Thread Polytropon
27;s quite hard to determine requirements "in vivo". The more restricted your testing bed is, the more precise are your findings and therefor your answers. Have as few variables as possible. On a server actually running, using a malformed configuration and many altered settings (wh

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-19 Thread Polytropon
curie point, and then - end that offtopic? Why pollute the environment with fire? What's wrong with a good old-fashioned hammer session, executed on the disk platters? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: find USB v2.0 physical ports on the computer

2012-07-20 Thread Polytropon
If you do not have any documentation, take a USB 2.0 device (where you are _sure_ it's USB 2.0) and try it on all the ports. Check the dmesg output informing you about how the device has been initialized (e. g. transfer speed mentioned). You can also use usbconfig to obtain this information.

Re: Power failure during portsnap fetch update

2012-07-21 Thread Polytropon
and will therefore recover "lost data" (which we will accept as irrelevant at this point) into the lost+found/ root directory on that partition. You can remove its content later on. If fsck finishes with success, you should be able to mount the /usr partition again. Of course, some subdirecor

Re: Power failure during portsnap fetch update

2012-07-21 Thread Polytropon
pair the file system in order to proceed. First let fsck try to do its job. If it fails to do so, attempt to manually "repair" the inodes (by removing them altogether). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: X server already running on display :0

2012-07-21 Thread Polytropon
"pkg_add -r" to do this, or use the xfce metaport per "make install". > Any suggestions? Just install Xfce 4 in one of the usual ways. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ fr

Re: xdm and gdm

2012-07-21 Thread Polytropon
("startx" command) _and_ also with xdm (and therefore with wdm and others). > any ideas? (except: "just use gdm" please) Just use... computer. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: xdm and gdm

2012-07-21 Thread Polytropon
y) correspond to scripts /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gnome respectively. So any possibly relevant preparations should be done by those scripts. I can't check those as I haven't got Gnome installed here. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBS

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-22 Thread Polytropon
very good idea. I assume it will result in a bluescreen soon and a _partially_ erased disk. By the way, I remember I had a DD.EXE program on my old DOS system. I'm not sure if such a tool could operate on devices (instead of filesystem-based representations as "drive letters"), but it a

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-22 Thread Polytropon
s OS sources don't need the 1st step. The Makefiles distributed also do use "BSD make", not "GNU make" (often refered to as gmake on non-Linux systems). If this isn't the answer to your question, feel free to be more specific. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happ

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:59:55 +0800, lei yang wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:41:57 +0800, lei yang wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I want to build a "netcat" on my local pc (ubuntu) with gcc, is it >

Re: Question about install from ports

2012-07-23 Thread Polytropon
rom. There are typically more than one source listed. If one fails, try the next one. Then place the file in /usr/ports/distfiles and restart the build. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ fre

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-23 Thread Polytropon
the documentation about the file system hierarchy which should have detailed information on what is stored where. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: usb identity issue (adds more info)

2012-07-23 Thread Polytropon
sure it's not blocked by permission issues or typos). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: Removing sendmail from an installed system

2012-07-23 Thread Polytropon
ORE_FILES in mergemasterrc? I've never tried to actually _remove_ sendmail (because simply ignoring it seems so much easier when needed), but did you try the "make delete-old" and "make delete-old-libs" as explained in /usr/src/Makefile's comment header for the updating pro

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-24 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:13:00 +0800, lei yang wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:29:38 +0800, lei yang wrote: > >> Yes, the second version I post is using the source from you supplied, > >> then I compiled it, but it

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Polytropon
55 92.8% 498+327k 31247+7302io 3034pf+0w 19725.009u 2882.355s 7:39:11.57 82.0% -875+548k 44987+6963io 2950pf+0w -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: how to determine the temperature of your CPU?

2012-07-25 Thread Polytropon
; 319 cpu/coretemp > 311 hostb/amdtemp There are programs in ports like mbmon and xmbmon to easily output the CPU temperature values. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Polytropon
, you can do many things by control files (loader.conf et al.) which previously required at least rebuilding the kernel (e. g. firewall, divert). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freeb

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Polytropon
hours > > A few things you could try adding to make.conf: > FORCE_MAKE_JOBS=yes > MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=4 I'm not sure this is supported on a _single_ core Pentium 4 CPU (or will gain speed if it was "emulated"). -- Polytropon Magdeburg,

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Polytropon
from ports. Next issue: "You need a virus scanner that inspects network packets!" :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Polytropon
guidelines. It's worth it, and it saves money. I'm confident that it is a chance to finally dump the stupid idea of insisting to have a virus scanner on FreeBSD where there are no viruses it could scan for. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mou

Re: FreeBSD on SSD

2012-07-28 Thread Polytropon
hing the drive to a FreeBSD system and see if _one_ or _two_ disk devices (ad or ada) appear. If I'm wrong and it should really be "two units in one", your idea would work. Install FreeBSD to the SSD part and apply the known optimizations. Make use of the HDD part for OS componen

Re: FreeBSD on SSD

2012-07-28 Thread Polytropon
stem. Even the 512/4k sectoring would be no problem. You're going to install FreeBSD as on any other hard disk. You will then (hopefully) see a speed gain when in use. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: acroread9 makes CPU spin (busy loop?)

2012-07-28 Thread Polytropon
version 8.2-STABLE (from August 2011) i386, and I have acroread9-9.4.2 and acroreadwrapper-0.0.20110529 installed. The program is still responsive (as far as you can say this for bloated programs). In "top", the WCPU value increases until it reaches 100.00%, and CPU utilization monitor shows a

Re: Where did my port go?

2012-07-29 Thread Polytropon
file, als search for lines beginning with "bin/" to find the binaries. However, I don't see a port "haskell-platform" on my systems (ports collection updated few days ago). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: acroread9 makes CPU spin (busy loop?)

2012-07-29 Thread Polytropon
uot;extensions" that create braindamaged PDFs. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: Where did my port go?

2012-07-29 Thread Polytropon
n /var/db/pkg as described in my previous message. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Where did my port go?

2012-07-29 Thread Polytropon
"hs-haskell-platform", and by doing the previously mentioned investigation, it's probably the "ghc" or "runhaskell" command. I'm not familiar with Haskell, so I can only guess. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi enne

Re: Where did my port go?

2012-07-29 Thread Polytropon
installation (either by ports infrastructure or pkg_delete). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Flash in Firefox

2012-07-30 Thread Polytropon
I'm using Opera here with the following ports: opera-11.50 opera-linuxplugins-11.50 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Mail Reference Manual?

2012-07-31 Thread Polytropon
if it's just mentioned in the SEE ALSO section. > I understand mail is not very popular these days, > but for me a combination of mail/mpack does all I need. Maybe it looks to you that it's not popular among users, but it's very popular among programs. :-) -- Polytrop

Re: confused about the png/APNG issue

2012-08-01 Thread Polytropon
package. Many (most?) distros also include X and various software, so they chose the PNG library to be part of that basic distribution content. > obviously, i'm confused. will some patient person please explain where i'm > going wrong? I think it has been done hereby. :-) -

Re: Installing details

2012-08-04 Thread Polytropon
eation and installation of live systems to CD or DVD is also possible. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Webpage screenshot

2012-08-05 Thread Polytropon
s are welcome - the less interaction, the better. It doesn't matter if the result is a 800x1 px image with 300 px white margin left and right. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Polytropon
another file system, e. g. for sharing with "Windows" stuff, it's also possible to mount it: # mount -t msdosfs -o ro /dev/md0s2 /mnt/win Of course you can access all slices and partitions independently. That should be the best approach for recoverin

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Polytropon
t's just a claim, nothing applicable). In order not to "risk" a lawsuit, it seems that spreading FUD is often the more profitable way of using patents: "I told you! I have patents! But if you pay me $$$, maybe I won't sue you and your users. Maybe... but now PAY!!!"

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-07 Thread Polytropon
ement "you may have installed the 64-bit distribution" Wojciech refered to as "nonsense": On a 32 bit system, the 64 bis OS version should not run. So the OP seems to be using the (correct!) 32 bit OS version, but trying to compile the 64 bit kernel (from /sys/amd64/conf

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-07 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 01:04:49 +0100, RW wrote: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 23:26:33 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:14:30 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Aug 7 02:44:36 2012 > > > > Dat

Re: Apple Aluminium Keyboard (w/ numpad) woe

2012-08-09 Thread Polytropon
multifunctional keyboards (Sun type 6 and 7, german layout). > Thanks very much, and apologies if there's a known answer, it's > not something I've managed to find yet if it is. Sorry, no solution here, only confirmation... :-( -- Polytropon Magdebur

Re: Question?

2012-08-10 Thread Polytropon
y of PS3 emulation existed, I'm not sure you're legally allowed to run PS3 games outside of a real Sony PS3. Anyway, I'm not a typical gamer, so my short statement is ready to be corrected by someone who knows better. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: problem

2012-08-13 Thread Polytropon
z ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-7-stable/Latest/perl.tbz If possible, you may consider updating your system to a newer version, 8.3 or 9.0 if it fits your requirements. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Polytropon
pdate /boot/kernel/ containing the GENERIC kernel that matches your binarily updated world (so it's a good fallback kernel in case of problems!), and you boot from /boot/mykernel which still contains your untouched kernel. However, what you're doing seems to be "not supported",

Re: Optimus vga on notebook

2012-08-13 Thread Polytropon
bsd on my notenbook Try to follow the instructions precisely and check each step. In case of problems, provide more information (commands you tried, their results, significant log messages etc.). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:35:12 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:24 AM 8/13/2012, Polytropon wrote: > > >That seems to be the default behaviour, as freebsd-update is > >not supposed to be used with a custom kernel. It works with > >GENERIC kernels (because it upd

Re: Blender port

2012-08-16 Thread Polytropon
. The google search results are very disillusioning, even more than the "typical Linuxisms" that sometimes hits a FreeBSD port... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebs

Re: freebsd-update and csup - I'm going around in circles.

2012-08-16 Thread Polytropon
asily control the process. (Sidenote: I also have /etc/sup/stable.sup which looks like the example provided, but has tag=RELENG_9 in it. You could also use tag=RELENG_9_0_0_RELEASE to revert back to 9.0-RELEASE.) You can find an example for what the CVS tags mean here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/e

Re: handbook pkg name

2012-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:48:24 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: > What is the pkg name of the English version of 9.0 handbook? It should be "en-freebsd-doc" or "freebsd-doc-en". -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: fsck recoveries, configuration

2012-08-17 Thread Polytropon
empted to kill the man logger process using ^C with no success. Waiting / hanging process? > Can someone shed light on the above sequence of events? It's highly > likely some of them occurred before the 60 second delay for fsck > timed out, but I'd like to understand what th

Re: doc

2012-08-17 Thread Polytropon
he drive is detected and attached to the correct driver), in a next step maybe check your Gnome and Brasero configuration. If it fails, try a command line tool. Those are typically easier to use and more comfortable. > what you can say about it? with best regards,ivan,Russia,Moscow. MHOrO YCn

Re: fsck recoveries, configuration

2012-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:44:10 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 08/17/12 19:05, Polytropon wrote: > >> 2. When my machine hung (could not rlogin or ping), I powered > >> off and rebooted. > > > > Does the machine have a "soft power button" and it is configu

Re: fsck recoveries, configuration

2012-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:14:47 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 08/17/12 21:17, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:44:10 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> On 08/17/12 19:05, Polytropon wrote: > >>>> 2. When my machine hung (could not rlogin or ping),

Re: fsck recoveries, configuration

2012-08-17 Thread Polytropon
case, it's a really cheap home PC (from a discounter). > What does (fixed) mean? A can only guess: It probably means that the button is fixed (mounted) in the machine, e. g. at the front panel. You could also check in sysctl's output on what state the button will initiate whe

Re: about system api

2012-08-18 Thread Polytropon
the /usr/src directory. Whatever you want to understand as "system APIs" will be in there. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: doc

2012-08-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 06:16:31 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:43:58 +0200 > Polytropon articulated: > > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:17:42 +0400, иван кузнецов wrote: > > > how to open RU_FREEBSD_DOC_20111014.TBZ under windows? > > > > The file is

Re: user specific xorg.conf?

2012-08-19 Thread Polytropon
ing X server, you can easily crash a system. That's why a user should not be able to have access to such files. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread Polytropon
agreement that allows them to do so, in comparison to what patent issues prohibit doing the same on FreeBSD. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: user specific xorg.conf?

2012-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:38:13 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > Combining a couple of responses into one to cut down traffic... > > On 08/19/12 11:51, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:44:15 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> In attempting to zero in on my system crash

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:54:52 +0200, vermaden wrote: > "Polytropon" : > > On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:33:49 +0200, vermaden wrote: > > > HI, > > > > > > OpenBSD seems to have packages for everything, even > > > for LAME (audio/lame), why FreeBSD

Re: user specific xorg.conf?

2012-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:45:28 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 08/19/12 15:01, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:38:13 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> Combining a couple of responses into one to cut down traffic... > >> > >> On 08/19/12 11:51, Polytropon

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-20 Thread Polytropon
t; or one of the port management tools such as portmaster) is possible. Of course you have to think first, then do, but I assume it's not needed mentioning. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Polytropon
d recompiling if needed. I know, it's just a workaround and doesn't address the problem directly, but it should get you away from any related trouble. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

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