Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-10-25 Thread Polytropon
. > > -- > Bruce Cran > > fuck.. I'm out of touch. > So this means I might not > be able to boot freebsd at all > on future ia64 boxes.. There probably won't be much ia64 boxes in the future. You should worry to not be able to run FreeBSD on ARM, an

Re: FreeBSD based, standalone, print server

2012-10-25 Thread Polytropon
to IP address", just as the original printer would have been. -- 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-ques

Re: rc.conf and loader.conf

2012-10-26 Thread Polytropon
shell script, containing variable assignments. It is that simple. It implies that you can arrange everything (with newlines, comments, in groups, as you wish) as long as it is valid shell syntax. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi e

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-26 Thread Polytropon
d now. :-) > While this is not > exactly a catastrophe, it is rankling to say the least. Maybe some > gentleman has faced this problem and has sorted it out. If anyone can > provide a hint on how to fix the problem, I would be grateful indeed. Maybe an update of FF and TB would be s

Re: ata controller problem

2012-10-26 Thread Polytropon
ttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html I assume that you are using UFS. > Is there a way to ensure that the onboard SATA Controller is always > probed first. I'm not sure if this can be done, but using labels should make the question go away, and the pro

Re: ata controller problem

2012-10-26 Thread Polytropon
.ada.4.at="scbus4" > hint.ada.5.at="scbus5" That's a very nice contribution to the topic - I hadn't thought it was that easy, and it actually solves the "who comes first" kind of problems. > See CAM(4) man page (read it, don't skim!) for full

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:06:44 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > > Hello Polytropon, > > Thanks for replying. > > > Maybe an update of FF and TB would be sufficient, so it can link > > to the present (or at least expected) libraries accordingly. > > Maybe I di

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-27 Thread Polytropon
; solve such kind of problem. > Looks like I am going to have to contend with being less "image-inative" > in the coming days. You just need to imagine the images. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 05:47:46 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > > On 28-Oct-12 01:49, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:43:11 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > >>> But Mozilla applications like Firefox and Thunderbird present > >>> a peculiar problem - the but

Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-10-29 Thread Polytropon
at can be used with floppies (if you have them) utilizing a USB floppy disk drive to boot (selectable as boot source at system startup). This way you don't waste 650 MB, only 1.44 MB for this one-time use... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andr

Re: how to disable page breaks in line printer

2012-10-30 Thread Polytropon
eed to power off/on for the new settings > to have effect. If the document itself contrains page breaks ("form feed", Ctrl+L, ^L, ASCII code 12) you could previously delete them with tr -d, just to make sure. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra m

Re: Famp Server

2012-10-30 Thread Polytropon
ase help, Can you provide the error message of "no success"? > and also when i install them should i go to the port directory or i > can execute the command anywhere >From anywhere. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD u

Re: I need a simple cli tool to rotate mp4 video.

2012-10-30 Thread Polytropon
See "man mencoder" for details. -- 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 unsubscribe, sen

Re: VirtualBox Guest Addons

2012-10-31 Thread Polytropon
to The FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html Also refer to the comment header of /usr/src/Makefile. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebs

Re: Autotools, libraries and man pages: oh my!

2012-11-02 Thread Polytropon
e containing the required CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, define a rule for building the target and then just use "make". -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: before new version

2012-11-03 Thread Polytropon
so with the ports collection, or alternatively also use pkg_add -r from the Latest/ directory instead of RELEASE (which _always_ contains the ports generated from the frozen ports tree). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user sinc

Re: before new version

2012-11-03 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 12:25:12 -0500, ajtiM wrote: > On Saturday 03 November 2012 12:18:35 Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 11:23:12 -0500, ajtiM wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Could someone explain, please why ports should be frozen before a new > > &

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
the whole disk containing all the partitions, add gzip, break it into "multi-volume parts" and then record it to DVD+R. > Is there any way to effectively deal with _this_ issue? Not per se, but I think all the required parts are in the system, it's just the question of how to

Re: Character set conversion, locales, UTF-8, etc

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
translating "problematic" characters into such that are less problematic). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:37:43 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <20121105021817.fc5bff1b.free...@edvax.de>, > Polytropon wrote: > > >> I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks. > > > >If you think you can add

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:49:24 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <20121105035233.e3c4ae8a.free...@edvax.de>, > Polytropon wrote: > > >> But as I said (above) to make this really work right, dump & restore really > >> need to have -z options,

Re: Character set conversion, locales, UTF-8, etc

2012-11-05 Thread Polytropon
encodings. Doing it by hand is slow. I'll check > ports again. The system already brings such a tool: od (octal, decimal, hex, ASCII dump). For example: % ls -w müslifraß.txt | od -h 000 fc6d6c73666961722edf78740a74 This is on en_US.ISO8

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-05 Thread Polytropon
everything" is found in The Sleuth Kit: fls dls ils autopsy In worst case. Just in worst case. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Xiphos Locale Bug?

2012-11-05 Thread Polytropon
TARY de_DE.ISO8859-1 setenv LC_NUMERIC de_DE.ISO8859-1 setenv LC_TIME de_DE.ISO8859-1 unsetenv LANG That will leave english text intact (most usable language setting for most programs), but allow specific settings like time notation or collation according t

Re: Xiphos Locale Bug?

2012-11-05 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:25:54 -0600, Joseph a Nagy Jr wrote: > On 11/05/12 19:19, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:54:43 -0600, Joseph a Nagy Jr wrote: > >> FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, i386 > >> > >> Xiphos is giving me a strange warning[0], and I'

Re: pkg_add and 9.1RC3

2012-11-12 Thread Polytropon
gnated location. As 9.1-RC3 is "on the path" of 9-STABLE, your approach of accessing the STABLE-related access path looks valid. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-12 Thread Polytropon
ding on what Linux you are using, this may be as easy as on FreeBSD... or overcomplicated, because "nobody needs this anyway". :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questio

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

2012-11-12 Thread Polytropon
4k border". If you create partition sizes as multiples of 4k, it should be fine. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

2012-11-12 Thread Polytropon
cs/html/disksetup.html As I have limited experience, anyone having more practical experience with this matter is welcome to comment. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebs

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Anyway, linux is > > > installed; the box is on my internal IP net. I can ssh *out*

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800 > Gary Kline wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline w

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:50:40 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
-0800 > > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > ja voh

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:09:08 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:35:43AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > > box. it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that > > > I never studied. yuk. > > > > I assume your "H

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:20:51 -0700, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > > Ouch. > > > > Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol > > in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In E

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:27:37 -0700, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match > > realitiy anymore. :-) > > > > A famous thing is

Re: ugh. dump / restore problem(s) "Cannot find file dump list"

2012-11-14 Thread Polytropon
d via -f, so # restore -rf /usr/backup/dump_var_0_20121113_1920 should work. You can find an example in "man restore". -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: ugh. dump / restore problem(s) "Cannot find file dump list"

2012-11-14 Thread Polytropon
rces for dump/restore also mentions this format: # mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt # mkdir /tmp/oldvar # cd /tmp/oldvar # restore -ruf /mnt/var.dump # umount /mnt Source: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/backup.html#_em_dump_8_em_em_restore_8_em -- Polytro

Re: curious -- what's /tmp/fam-root ?

2012-11-14 Thread Polytropon
obably belongs to something else that is then required by again something else...). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: why sync during shutdown when sync already done?

2012-11-14 Thread Polytropon
red, but from my understanding, syncing is a "multi-staged process". The "shutdown sync" seems to have a specific timeout that makes sure things get written definitely. That's why even the famous # sync ; sync ; sync ; reboot sequence would have the same effect.

Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-15 Thread Polytropon
problem. There is gnumeric for that task, the "companion" of abiword. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Mounting SD card.

2012-11-15 Thread Polytropon
t;. > > Thanks Warren. I wasn't aware of that option, it's certainly much neater and > less prone to typing errors. Is there a recommended way to automate the "GEOM re-tasting" so SD cards can be accessed without further interaction (by simply using the correct mount

Re: Mounting SD card.

2012-11-15 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:25:28 +1030, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 16/11/2012 02:25, Warren Block wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Polytropon wrote: > > > >> Is there a recommended way to automate the "GEOM re-tasting" so > >> SD cards can be accessed without fu

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-16 Thread Polytropon
end to break unexpectedly (especially in library land). > I usually delete all installed ports before > the upgrade to a new major version. The EXAMPLES section of "man portmaster" has a nice instruction of how to do this. It's definitely the preferred way for a clean ins

Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
; files and want be to open and maybe change it", a standalone word processor like Abiword looks like the easiest solution. I'd finally like to point to this document which might help to make people aware of _what_ they are actually doing when they're sending memory dum

Re: how to correct corrupted ports tree?

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
this is an "old-fashioned" approach; I'm not sure for how long it will work. :-) See "man 5 make.conf" for details, as well as "man 7 ports". -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: how to correct corrupted ports tree?

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:51:11 +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:56:21 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> I don't see a way to force refetch of the actual ports files > >> like "distinfo&qu

Re: how to correct corrupted ports tree?

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 05:57:40 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-11-18 05:14, Bernt Hansson skrev: > > There is a readme file too. > > ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/README.TXT Which mentions the evil cvsup... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
p, with /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ as examples), so "make update" would do whatever you wanted. Exactly that kind of productive (!) behaviour is what I would expect (or at least wish) for any replacement of CVS, be it SVN or Git. > Sorry to reply to these sorts of replies this way, but

Re: confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-18 Thread Polytropon
en® Again, you should reconsider using VM images provided by others. There is basically nothing wrong in running a FreeBSD server in a VM on Linux, even though it might be valid as well to run FreeBSD on "bare metal". But that depends on your requirements, intentions, and energy bill. :-)

Re: How is zfs file system known in fsck?

2012-11-18 Thread Polytropon
ZFS is "self healing" so there is no separate fsck_zfs tool provided in the base system (or in any other place). You will need to use the ZFS tools to check data integrity and make sure everything is alright (e. g. "zpool scrub"). That is not a bug. :-) -- Pol

Re: Freebsd 9 Startx

2012-11-18 Thread Polytropon
rouble, please name the software you're intending to run (e. g. which window manager), what you have installed, the content of config files (such as .xinitrc or .xsession) and the commands you've entered, plus their output and error messages. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

2012-11-19 Thread Polytropon
with UEFI. Avoiding "uncertified" traffic could be one of them. Still in _this_ particular case I would not assume UEFI to be the source of the problem. > I'm also sure that this has nothing to do with FreeBSD. FreeBSD's ssh implementation (client and server) usually a

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

2012-11-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:00:29 -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:43:06 +0100 > Polytropon articulated: > > > Allow me to provide just one example: > > > > More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs > > http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20187.html > &

Re: OFF TOPIC -- Latex Question

2012-11-19 Thread Polytropon
ay), you can use \vspace{1.0cm} for example - in the definition. There is still one downside: It doesn't integrate into the numbering scheme of \section, \subsection and so on. In my case, I've been using the "enumerate" environment within the articles for sectioning, which w

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

2012-11-19 Thread Polytropon
; alive and contributing *something* might be interested in this. Even though it's not x86, this might be interesting as it is _really_ open: http://cubieboard.org/ You can freely obtain schematics, dimensions, components... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 A

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

2012-11-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:35:15 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:46:45AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:27:52 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > answer me this, daniel or anybody else:: isn't there a very small > > > group

Re: portsnap

2012-11-21 Thread Polytropon
It just says, execute that command "ls -al" in the existing execution > environment. Nothing wrong here. > The reason I go so by the book about it is that "words have meaning" and > definitions :-) Depending on _what_ book you read, things may change. :-) For exam

Re: portsnap

2012-11-22 Thread Polytropon
e stories you told me which ones were true and which ones weren't? Garak: My dear doctor... they're all true. Bashir: Even the lies? Garak: Especially the lies. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-22 Thread Polytropon
y. :-) Rebuilding is only needed if you run a custom kernel. The userland will be upgraded in a binary way (just as the GENERIC kernel in case you're using it). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-24 Thread Polytropon
tools to create a slice and partitions. It's not very complicated and should be possible from the "Fixit" live system (not tested). See this document for details on partitioning preparation and disk initialisation: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html -- Polytr

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:07:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 23:35 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > /dev/sda1 63 12127468460637311 83 Linux > > > > This

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:34:28 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 00:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > I meant the "really manual mode" (CLI) as to be seen in > > Fig. 3-10, named "Shell" (that's why the confusion, sorry). > > > &

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
s for that instead of the device names. > I want to use GRUB from my Linux installs, this is the Linux menu.lst: > > timeout 8 > default 0 > color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue > > title FreeBSD 9.0 > root (hd0,a) > kernel /boot/loader My Linux multiboot experie

Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:06:06 +, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > > --On 22 November 2012 17:41 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > > >> I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent > >> way to get it to update me to '-STABLE'?

Re: [Bulk] Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:43:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > I'll read this. I want to test what's possible and/or impossible > regarding to MIDI and audio productions using FreeBSD. Will be interesting. I know there is so

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
o field can be any value between 0 and `INT_MAX-1'. But it's a comment line anyway. :-) > And this are the entries I need: > > /dev/gpt/swap noneswapsw 0 0 > /dev/gpt/root / ufs rw 1 1 Look

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:42:38 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Polytropon, I'll use journaling. That should give you additional "security in integrity", especially on a "everything in one /" partition. > I've to apologize for my broken English. No understanding

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
then use disklabel (bsdlabel) to create the required partitions inside this slice (/ and swap, in your case). There would be no need to write any boot codes or MBR stuff as GRUB will chainload the FreeBSD loader (hd0,a:/boot/loader). Modern technology... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germa

Re: error message

2012-11-26 Thread Polytropon
use when you cannot download software from the Internet. I assume you're using FreeBSD 9 already. In this case, refering to The FreeBSD Handbook about the steps of installation might be a good idea: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall.html I've got no d

Re: set connection to a modem

2012-11-28 Thread Polytropon
quot; dialup on secure would enable you a serial "console access" (e. g. to connect a serial terminal to) at a speed of 9k6 (e. g. a DEC vt100). When connected via serial cable, you would receive a login prompt. Again, note that ttyd0 might not be valid here. -- Polytropon Magdeb

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread Polytropon
27;s driver (plus a faulty GPU), and I only have 2 GB RAM. Anywhere else, I have not experienced problems with amd64. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: ld; extracting from libraries; and related questions

2012-11-29 Thread Polytropon
he tool you need. Check "man ar", the EXAMPLES section: To verbosely list the contents of archive ex.a, use: ar -tv ex.a So by using -x instead of -t, the members should be extracted. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4

Re: set connection to a modem

2012-12-02 Thread Polytropon
tion to find out which config file it uses. There is no system-wide configuration file for what you need. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Gnome

2012-12-02 Thread Polytropon
/books/handbook/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy Fr

Re: i am new with this

2012-12-03 Thread Polytropon
host www.freebsd20.12.02 12h 23m > www/videos This remotely looks like what you can achieve with Apache's configuration file (httpd.conf), but would also apply if you'd choose to employ jails to maintain web servers on a per-jail basis. I'm almost sur

Re: Install on Intel

2012-12-04 Thread Polytropon
justify. :-) -- 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 unsubscribe, send any mail to "free

Re: question about my new Dell 3010

2012-12-08 Thread Polytropon
ose commands from an X terminal: xrandr --fb 1920x1280 xrandr --size 1920x1280 You can use xvidtune (usually _not_ used for LCDs, only for CRTs and tuning) to verify. In worst case, put those two commands in your X initialization file (usually ~/.xinitrc, sometimes ~/.xsession, if not cas

Re: question about my new Dell 3010

2012-12-09 Thread Polytropon
uot;all digital all the time". Even though both VGA and DVI have a "data channel" to transmit data (like monitor pixel size) to the GPU, DVI seems to be the preferred solution for flatpanels, especially wide ones. 1920x1080 is already widescreen. Does it match the size descripti

Re: Brian

2012-12-10 Thread Polytropon
pinion. That should at least give you some inspiration on the "why". FreeBSD's networking stack has proven to be reliable and efficient over many years, and being "ready for the show" (especially in regards of IPv6 features) prior to many other systems. -- Polytropon Magd

Re: mount -u effects

2012-12-10 Thread Polytropon
rently open for writing unless the -f flag is also specified. The set of options is determined by applying the options specified in the argument to -o and finally applying the -r or -w option. So I'd say you should always take care that write operations are finished properly (and so brought t

Re: mount -u effects

2012-12-11 Thread Polytropon
some time typing the mount command, and you should be fine. :-) -- 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-qu

Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?

2012-12-11 Thread Polytropon
ml Note that if you still encounter network problems, it's better to write a short rc.d style script that performs the mount_smb commands, and use the proper keywords to have it run when the network connection is up and running. See &quo

Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?

2012-12-11 Thread Polytropon
for requiring SMB stuff). Delegating the configuration into _one_ file (instead of spreading it across /etc/fstab, /etc/nsmb.conf and maybe some handcrafted /usr/local/etc/rc.d script) sounds like a much better approach. -- Polytropon Magde

Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$

2012-12-11 Thread Polytropon
with it. So the "in-line processing chain" consisting of Firefox + somehow embedded acroread (really?) could be split, so the reason for the system freeze could be determined. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: how to get audio from youtube?

2012-12-11 Thread Polytropon
low you to paste a YT URI and then download it in MP3 format. Such a service is http://www.youtube-mp3.org - but there are several others. But please be advised that it's illegal to listen to MP3 in the USA. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-12 Thread Polytropon
t, the output will be text only for information purposes). -- 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 u

Re: [Bulk] audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-12 Thread Polytropon
e web in order to install software on FreeBSD. The tasks are automatically done by the ports infrastructure. So it's much simpler: # /usr/ports/audio/audacity # make install or use the package management tool of choice (e. g. portmaster), or just use "pkg_add -r audacity&q

Re: http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2012-12-13 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:53:19 +0530, Anil Kumar wrote: > i want start The local host, PHP My Admin says: "Well then, buddy, go ahead!" -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ free

Re: [solved] PPPoE

2012-12-13 Thread Polytropon
et dial > > > set login > > > > I don't think you need these. > > Thank you :) > > uncommenting "enable dns", commenting out "set dial" and "set login" > does the trick. As seen in The

Re: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-14 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:56:51 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 12/12/12 23:51, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:27:16 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> Can anyone suggest an audio playback application that allows you to vary > >> the > >> tempo? I&#x

Re: Listen to file changes

2012-12-14 Thread Polytropon
ir" for more info. And struct ufs2_dinode in /usr/include/ufs/ufs/dinode.h should have the information you need to parse for; maybe also check the FILE type in /usr/include/stdio.h for access flags. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: modem communication

2012-12-15 Thread Polytropon
rial port. In addition, depending on how you access the modem, e. g. via open() or fopen(), you could use the corresponding flush operation - fsync() - to make sure the commands are written to the modem port _right now_. There should be no need to re-open the modem for every AT command you send.

Re: Software Manager - try again later

2012-12-15 Thread Polytropon
t it should work. Mixing PBI and ports/packages is possible, but discouraged. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: Software Manager - try again later

2012-12-15 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:25:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 13:11 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > Mixing PBI and ports/packages is possible, but discouraged. > > I read about it, but don't understand the issue. > > If I never ever would use PBI again

Re: Software Manager - try again later

2012-12-15 Thread Polytropon
ions mentioned in "man restore". Make sure you backup all your partitions -- I see you have /, /var and /usr; if that's everything, it's okay. Additionally, you could backup your disks's MBR using dd. # dd if=/dev/ of=/where/your/backup/is/disk_mbr.dd bs=512 count=1

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
help, when websites expect newer versions. Correct, so this is another good reason for finally dropping "Flash" and move on to better alternatives. Side note: I've been experiencing working "Flash" for many years now without any trouble on FreeBSD. Sometimes I wish it woul

Re: aclocal-1.12: error: 'configure.ac'

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
onfusing here is the fact that the OP seems to have a "mixed" installation. The prompt reads: > > /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade sudo make install But the error messages say: > > /usr/bin/touch /opt/ports/lang/ruby18/work

Re: Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
versa - tell make to link to the shared version, not the static one. > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" This can be done by addressing the linker through $LDFLAGS. I think "man ld" will be helpful. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, G

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:13:36 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 12/16/12 07:08, Polytropon wrote: > > > And if you're using Firefox, there are plugins available that > > allow you to download video content instead of dealing with the > > "Flash" player t

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