Re: problems with installworld

2018-08-18 Thread Polytropon
tructions on top of /usr/src/Makefile (comment header). Before you perform "make installworld", make sure you have rebooted the system into single-user mode (with the new kernel). Also see "man 7 build" for details. > I'm going to try again without src.conf or make.conf

Re: console-only freebsd

2017-10-07 Thread Polytropon
/ background color attributes, maybe there is a viewer that converts the image into "text with control characters" that can be displayed directy in the vt text mode, without using any graphics? Just a stupid thought... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user sin

Re: console-only freebsd

2017-10-07 Thread Polytropon
ing a viewer that can directly interface with the "vt" graphics mode... > [1] by console, I mean the consoles accessed via alt-f1 to alt-f7 [2] > [2] can the number of consoles be increased? Yes. Edit /etc/ttys to spawn more gettys. See "man 5 ttys" for detail

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-13 Thread Polytropon
ged in. Moused # stops automatically (actually it bombs :) when the device disappears. attach 100 { device-name "ums[0-9]+"; action "/etc/rc.d/moused start $device-name"; }; This is from /etc/devd.conf. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-13 Thread Polytropon
cause moused to be run anyway, but there are differences. If > you want switching between X and console to be fast, enable moused. And this is possible in combination with devd that "remote-contols" moused for USB mice? And does moused ha

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Polytropon
, so moused can take care of the mouse. The USB system is not involved here. I really think you should concentrate on configuring X's mouse handling, as the system's seems to work in a correct manner. Suggested TODO: 1. Disable HAL and DBUS per rc.conf 2. Create xorg.conf

Re: 8.0-Beta installation problem -- Unable to find /dev/ad0s1b

2009-09-14 Thread Polytropon
7.2 is gone. Seems to be correct up to here; /dev/ad0s1b refers to the swap partition. > But, the original partitions are still in the MBR (S1 for DOS, and > S2 and S3 for FreeBSD). So an update of the MBR hasn't taken place? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4

Re: Script-friendly (parseble) ps(1) output?

2008-10-29 Thread Polytropon
u can use awk, it's quite simple: ps | awk -F " " 'NR > 1 {printf("%s%s%s%s%s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5);}' The only problem I see is that $5, the COMMAND field, is truncated after the first space character, so command line arguments will be missing. -- Polytro