Re: network routing malfunction

2012-05-24 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Wednesday, 23. May 2012 at 18:25, Pierre Abbat wrote: when I type route show, I get lots of routes for active connections. route on Linux just shows the routing table. I use netstat -r (or -rn to not wait for DNS) to see the routing table – it works everywhere and does what you need.

Re: Graphics Setup Help!

2012-05-08 Thread Matthias Rampke
Hi, can you tell us a little about what doesn't work when you try to use the NVidia card? For starts, there is the vesa driver which basically works with every video card out there but severely lacks in features (can't remember exactly, dual-monitor use may among those missing). The

Re: pkgsrc2012Q1-firefox build fails

2012-05-07 Thread Matthias Rampke
Hi, the problem is that some packages try to use the installed versions of their own shared libraries or tools during the build process. In the past I've worked around this by - linking (ln -s) from the old library file to the new one - 'make replace'ing the package in question to be sure: -

Re: Mount Ext3 under DragonFlyBSD

2012-04-28 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Saturday, 28. April 2012 at 12:27, v...@ukr.net wrote: it has the 'sparse_super' flag turned on. It looks like it is impossible to turn it off once the file system is created, and DragonFlyBSD driver for Ext2 file system does not support this flag for some reason. Is that so? Yes, sadly

Reply-To / was: Re: specifying -s flag for openntpd in rc.conf does not work

2012-04-04 Thread Matthias Rampke
it be the other way round? I do have a preference there which is of absolutely no consequence to the content of this rant. Matthias -- Matthias Rampke Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) (because I can't stand clients that force me to press my mail into folders) On Wednesday, 4

Re: well wireless card for dragonfly

2012-04-02 Thread Matthias Rampke
2012/4/2 Andrey N. Oktyabrski a...@bestmx.ru: Atheros 2413 cardbus wireless card. The machine must be rebooted at least once per week because wifi AP stops. For me sudo rcrun restart netif usually does the trick, no full reboot necessary. Best, Matthias

Re: running vkernels in production

2012-02-03 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:52, n0g0013 ttw+...@cobbled.net wrote: the solution would appear to be, use `/etc/ttys` to start and manage the process. Another solution would be to use tmux or screen in the host system to start the vkernels in detached sessions (I've found tmux to be better suited;

Re: kernel version in git repo

2012-01-25 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Wednesday, 25. January 2012 at 18:34, Pierre Abbat wrote: Matthias answered by private email Ooops, forgot to add users@ again. For the record, here's the core bit: to mark your currently checked out version use git tag bug_foo; if you just want to know the commit ID use e.g. git show or

Re: wifi AP setup howto

2012-01-03 Thread Matthias Rampke
2012/1/3 Andrey N. Oktyabrski a...@bestmx.ru: ifconfig_wlan0=create wlandev ath0 wlanmode hostap inet 192.168.2.234 you need wlans_ath0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=wlanmode hostap inet 192.168.2.234 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid thinkpot nwkey topsecretpswd authmode shared mode 11g pureg hidessid in

Re: w3m / boehm-gc issue (really is getcontext in x86_64)

2011-12-17 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Friday, 16. December 2011 at 13:28, John Marino wrote: FYI, Per bugs #2108, Alex created the getContext.S function a few months ago: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~alexh/0001-getcontext-x86_64-implementation.patch FWIW, here's my (failed) stab at taking Alex' getcontext.S and the old

Re: sharing files between DF guest and Win host in VirtualBox

2011-12-10 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Freitag, 9. Dezember 2011 at 00:48, sweepslate wrote: However, in the meantime, I just noticed that DF can't access the Internet. This is an issue I need to take in a VBox forum. Be aware of the different VirtualBox network types – from the top of my head the most important ones:

Re: cant change font size within gedit

2011-11-19 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Samstag, 19. November 2011 at 02:22, Pierre Abbat wrote: If you run it from the command line, do you get warnings about not being able to contact dbus? I had the same problem and never did figure out how to fix it (I went back to kwrite/kate). I had the same problem with avahi –

Re: partition invalid or corrupt

2011-11-11 Thread Matthias Rampke
Hello, I see two potential problems here: On Freitag, 11. November 2011 at 07:36, william opensource4you wrote: Disk 2 has pcbsd on primary partition (p1), and I've prepared a 15GB partition (p2) for dfbsd.. I'm not sure about this, but do by any chance PC-BSD and DragonFly use the

Re: Can someone upgrade tor in Q3?

2011-11-06 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Sonntag, 6. November 2011 at 22:17, Pierre Abbat wrote: I'm using From git://git.dragonflybsd.org/pkgsrcv2 (http://git.dragonflybsd.org/pkgsrcv2); how often is it synced? about every 6 hours, unless it's broken … consider trying https://github.com/jsonn/pkgsrc – it's a git mirror

Re: onboard sound

2011-11-03 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Donnerstag, 3. November 2011 at 03:58, Pierre Abbat wrote: Okay, can you recommend some programs to use the sound? I tried alsa play, and got this: ALSA lib pcm.c:2215:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory ALSA is Linux-only.

Re: onboard sound

2011-11-01 Thread Matthias Rampke
Have a look at dmesg again – you just loaded plenty of drivers, but most of them don't do anything and thus don't write anything to dmesg. Yours should speak up though. --matthiasr On Montag, 31. Oktober 2011 at 22:01, Pierre Abbat wrote: On Monday 31 October 2011 12:37:45 Samuel J. Greear

Re: How can I make a movie or animation?

2011-09-08 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Donnerstag, 8. September 2011 at 06:38, Pierre Abbat wrote: Is this the right tool, or should I try something else? I don't know about mencoder, but ffmpeg can definitely do what you want:

Re: radvd

2011-08-19 Thread Matthias Rampke
From what I remember, it's more-or-less-ish the case that end-user systems (OS X, desktop Linux, Windows(?)) will accept address configuration (be it v4 or v6) from the network by default, server systems won't. In-betweens like Debian require you to decide on this during installation. IMHO

Re: What happened to branches other than dragonfly-2010Q3

2011-08-19 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Freitag, 19. August 2011 at 15:02, Justin Sherrill wrote: I'm curious to see if git chokes when downloading from a different source... In this case it definitely will – the repos were created by completely different scripts and ways (they convert CVS - Fossil - git AFAIK), so the commit

Re: What happened to branches other than dragonfly-2010Q3

2011-08-19 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Freitag, 19. August 2011 at 18:40, Siju George wrote: Also why not consider providing a pkgsrc.tgz snapshot for download once a week or so? It would be easier to pull through http/ftp since it can be resumed? That would be redundant now that there's https://github.com/jsonn/pkgsrc –

Re: radvd

2011-08-17 Thread Matthias Rampke
DragonFly doesn't accept router advertisements by default. You have to set something like ip6mode=autohost in /etc/rc.conf and some sysctl (ends in accept_rtadv). -m.

Re: rebuilding pkg_install fails

2011-08-11 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Donnerstag, 11. August 2011 at 07:15, Pierre Abbat wrote: I assume there's something out of place on your machine that's confusing the build. Maybe try doing a 'bmake clean'? That suggestion sounds kinda weak now that I said it. Tried that. Didn't fix it. I've seen this before …

Re: screen problem

2011-06-15 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Montag, 13. Juni 2011 at 22:21, Tim Darby wrote: kernel: pid 18254 (screen-4.0.3), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) I remember seeing that too. I don't exactly know what made it go away, probably recompiling the package (and possibly some library it depends on) from pkgsrc. hope

Re: system update question

2011-06-06 Thread Matthias Rampke
Hi, to switch to the stable branch cd /usr/src git checkout DragonFly_RELEASE_2_10 from that point on git pull in /usr/src or make src-update in /usr will keep you up to date on the stable branch. For more info, have a look at /usr/src/{README,UPDATING} and section 7 of the man pages, esp.

Re: system update question

2011-06-06 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Montag, 6. Juni 2011 at 19:54, Justin Sherrill wrote: Wouldn't he need to do this once, to establish the local copy of the branch? cd /usr/src git branch DragonFly_RELEASE_2_10 origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_2_10 git does this automagically, at least in recent versions, if you try to

Re: Chromium Browser on DragonFly

2011-05-21 Thread Matthias Rampke
Hello all, just a quick heads up that a Chromium 11 port is now available from the chromium11 branch of the repo[1]. Completely untested on x86_64 for now, i386 more or less works. Preliminary i386 package (again, against *my* setup) at [2]. Again, credit goes to rxg for updating the port to

Re: where'd kde4 go?

2011-05-16 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Montag, 16. Mai 2011 at 23:27, Pierre Abbat wrote: I ran pkgin se kdebase4 and it came up blank. The package is in pkgsrc. What broke it? The latest reports JustinS posted[1] say it's because of heimdal and xine-libs. Can it be fixed? Probably. Feel encouraged to do so :) -matthiasr [1]

Chromium Browser on DragonFly

2011-05-11 Thread Matthias Rampke
Hello all, following JustinS' call[1] I have done a preliminary (as in: compiles, doesn't really work yet, see below) port of the Chromium browser to DragonFly BSD. A first x86_64 binary package is available at [2] (compiled against my setup, e.g. Python 2.7, so YMMV) and the pkgsrc bits to

Re: Chromium Browser on DragonFly

2011-05-11 Thread Matthias Rampke
The i386 package is now available at [1] and it actually works (as in: it does indeed display web pages - I'm writing this through the GMail web interface from it now!) -m. [1] http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~matthiasr/chromium-i386.tgz

Re: System on SSD

2011-05-10 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Dienstag, 10. Mai 2011 at 21:04, Sven Gaerner wrote: I also want to move /usr/src and /usr/pkgsrc and the build directories to a normal HDD. Why? Isn't this where a SSD really shines? (the pkgsrc tree doesn't matter much because it doesn't contain the actual source, but I think you really

Re: Some problems installing dragonFly BSD. Can anybody help?

2011-05-09 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Montag, 9. Mai 2011 at 09:47, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: One thing that happened both times: on startx, the laptop screen filled with semi-random-looking blocks of colour for a split second before going into the wm. I think I've seen this before on some linux installs. Presumably X is

Re: Some problems installing dragonFly BSD. Can anybody help?

2011-05-07 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Fri, 6 May 2011, Justin Sherrill wrote: sysctl net.wlan.force_swcrypto=1 may help. http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2010-11/msg00169.html Works for me. Thank you! -matthiasr

Re: Some problems installing dragonFly BSD. Can anybody help?

2011-05-06 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Freitag, 6. Mai 2011 at 15:30, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: Dear All I am installing DragonFly BSD onto a Thinkpad X60. I recently installed on a X40, so let's see. There is also a page on the Website about the T42[1] and the X61s[2], especially most of the latter should apply to your case as

Re: Some problems installing dragonFly BSD. Can anybody help?

2011-05-06 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Freitag, 6. Mai 2011 at 16:03, Matthias Rampke wrote: From what I gather SMP Kernels with IO APIC enabled don't work. I just settled on using UP since I only have one core anyway. You may try setting hw.apic_io_enable=0 in /boot/loader.conf Sorry, that wasn't worded well. I meant to say

Re: postgresql904 did not install

2011-05-03 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Tue, 3 May 2011, 78dd085bd...@gmail.com wrote: dfly# bmake install tl;dr: It appears you have PostgreSQL 9.0.3 installed. Use bmake update. The longer explanation: pkgsrc has separate make targets for upgrading an already installed package. replace simply replaces the package, not

Re: virtualbox greetings

2011-04-04 Thread Matthias Rampke
I think I messed up the recipients on this, so here it is again. Forwarded message: From: Matthias Rampke matth...@rampke.de To: Justin Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.com Date: Sonntag, 3. April 2011 11:47:41 Subject: Re: virtualbox greetings On Sonntag, 3. April 2011 at 03:32, Justin

Re: Dual use Filesystem

2011-03-24 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Montag, 21. März 2011 at 00:31, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: ext3 or UFS might be at least readable for each side. However, the lowest-common-denominator of DOS (i.e. FAT) is possibly the most portable. From my experience, ext2fs seems to be the most widespread filesystem among the unix-ish

Re: Dragonfly network changes

2011-02-18 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:29, Chris Turner c.tur...@199technologies.org wrote: On 02/18/11 00:53, Francois Tigeot wrote: Do they offer IPv6 ? man gif(4) I think whether an ISP offers native IPv6 a very valid question and everybody should ask it to theirs once in a while … in the meantime

Re: How to tell where/how space is used?

2011-02-14 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 06:39, Pierre Abbat p...@phma.optus.nu wrote: 2 GB Hammer partition This is something you're not supposed to do(tm): the HAMMER(5) man page recommends a minimum size of 50GB [1]. It *started out* 15% full. It's still 15% full; there's not much on it. That's probably