Solution was easy: do not run GDM from /etc/ttys. Use the following rc.conf knob instead:  gnome_enable=”YES” and restart the box (or cycle to the single user mode and back)

First of all I have installed FreeBSD 7.2 onto my Lenovo s10E netbook recently. All works fine except ACPI and WIFI. Did a 8.0 upgrade from sources and still no luck.

Some people on official freebsd forums were mentioning experimental bwi driver which is worth to try during spare time I believe.

And yes, ACPI is not that important as WIFI is.  For now, I am using the ethernet cable without being able to walk around the flat and do things on the go.

If you are unlucky guy using Bakinternet ADSL subcsription behind a FreeBSD NAT, then make sure that the MTU value on the external network interface of the FreeBSD gateway is set to 1492 otherwise you may get half-loaded web pages and other quite annoying symptoms. MTU value of 1492 can be set using the following command under root:

ifconfig em0 mtu 1492

where em0 is the interface connected to the ADSL modem.

• Intel Mobile 965 Integrated Graphics Controller support is available from /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel .Do not install it as a package. This is what I did first and got unrecognized symbols while loading the driver. Recompiled it from the source and everything started fine.
• Added Option “AutoAddDevices” “false” to ServerFlags in xorg.conf to make my mouse and keyboard work in the newest xorg-server
• Wireless adapter support is available via wpi(4) driver from the base system. I am not satisfied with the performance, though. man wpi for additional information.

srv_clamav.c: In function ’srvclamav_init_service’:
srv_clamav.c:150: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘cl_loaddbdir’
srv_clamav.c:164: error: ’struct cl_limits’ has no member named ‘maxratio’
srv_clamav.c: In function ‘must_scanned’:
srv_clamav.c:445: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness
*** Error code 1

After reading through the clamav sources I have recognized that usage of the cl_loaddbdir() function has been abandoned in favor of cl_load(). Furthermore, cl_limits does not contain maxratio member anymore. After fixing both of this issues the port compiled and started just fine.

The patch has been submitted to the maintainer. Meanwhile you can take it from here: c-icap + clamav >= 0.93 patch

UPDATE:

My patch has been incorporated into the FreeBSD ports tree. Additionally, I have been appointed to be a maintainer of this port.

Portmaster is a handy script written for /bin/sh and needs no additional dependencies to be installed as portupgrade does.

Portmaster is located in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster.

Server startup failed. Exiting

have recompiled icecast with gdb support and found out that the problem is on the following line of the net/sock.c:

if (getaddrinfo (sinterface, service, &hints, &res))
return SOCK_ERROR;

After digging more into this I have discovered that sinterface holds the hostname of my server, not the numerical ip address which contradicts with the fact that hints.flags forces numeric address usage according to the AI_NUMERICHOST bit set:

hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE | AI_ADDRCONFIG | AI_NUMERICSERV | AI_NUMERICHOST;

After disabling AI_NUMERICHOST and recompiling - icecast started fine.

Decided to post this information here so anyone who comes across this issue can solve it quickly.

Below is a simple python script which reads stdin and creates ipod-compatible ebook which can be uploaded and read on your beloved device. Simply cat a big note to the script’s stdin and do not forget to define an ebook name. After successful completion of the script you will get a new directory in cwd containing all pages of your ipod ebook. Sample usage is like this:

cat /path/to/big/myebook | ./ipod_ebook.py myebook

#!/usr/local/bin/python2.5
import sys
import os

# 4k bytes in one page is allowed
ebook_page_bytes_count = 4000

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
  print "Usage: ", sys.argv[0], “ebook_name”
  sys.exit(-1)

try:
  os.mkdir(sys.argv[1])
except OSError:
  print sys.exc_value, “\nCould not create directory:”, sys.argv[1]
  sys.exit(-1)

j = 0
i = 0
ebook_page = open(sys.argv[1] + “/” + sys.argv[1] + str(j),”w”)
ebook_page.write(”<?xml encoding=\”utf-8\”?>\n”)

for line in sys.stdin:
  if i >= ebook_page_bytes_count:
    # Link to the next page at the bottom of the current page
    ebook_page.write(
    “\n<A HREF=\”" + sys.argv[1] + str(j + 1) + “\” NOPUSH>to page #”\
    + str(j+1) + “</A>”)
    ebook_page.close()
    j = j + 1
    i = 0
    ebook_page = open(sys.argv[1] + “/” + sys.argv[1] + str(j),”w”)
    # Ebook page header
    ebook_page.write(”<?xml encoding=\”utf-8\”?>\n”)
  ebook_page.write(line)
  i = i + len(line)

I have also had a bad luck with Supermicro servers in past. USB KVM completely refused to work.

Newly established Basin Modeling department at the GIA will be involved in geological data analysis for BP.

As a part of this project 4 Centos based workstations were installed as well as the Gocad software suite with flexlm license manager.