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Yes. cuse(3) is used to create DSP character devices from userspace. The OSS sound system under FreeBSD exposes play/rec devices through /dev/dsp entries which are standard Unix character devices, hence standard Unix file stuff is used to...

Hah, you know, I got the very idea about writing such program because in the last few days I've been exploring and debugging the mixer subsystem, which includes mixer -> mixer (libmixer) -> /usr/src/sys/dev/sound/pcm/mixer.c (generic mixer...

You probably want to start out studying the in-kernel mixer if you really want to stay in kernel space and use that as a template.

Ok Beastie7 you made me laugh. Or at least CATM. (Chuckle Audibly To Myself)

Rootin for the New Seattle Patrihawks. Cause ‘Murica.

Assuming you got it installed with cups, there's a print test page option. Click the printer, and there will be, to the left a Maintenance option. Click the drop down arrow and there's an option to print a test page.

Is there any way to try and print a test page? The printer has not been used for a long time and I don't know what the state of the ink is like. Maybe I should take it to a cartridge shop and someone may be able to tell me if it works if I buy...

Creating a custom pkgbase kernel package alone is unsupported, currently. There are plans to add support for this. A custom pkgbase kernel package can be created, but it requires "buildworld" and other steps, unnecessarily IMHO. Aside from that...

I had lpadmin -p myprinter.

While the problem is unclear to me, what I at least would make sure is that the printer shows up as selectable printer in the cupsd web-interface, and the file /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf exists after finishing the "add printer"...

There is supposed to be a USB option. but it doesn't come up when I run lpinfo -v. Should it?

/usr/local/bin/lp /etc/rc.conf:- Looks like I haven't set it up properly

Ok, the board arrived, but the cable I ordered is not the one I need.... I need an SFF-8643 on the board side, and an SFF-8087 mini sas on the server side. Can anyone help me find one of those in Amazon/Ebay, I searched a lot and wasn't able to...

once you set up the printer, /usr/local/bin/lp file.txt will send it to your default printer.

Not complete but with get you started. Others can fill the gaps. 1. pkg install cups hplip 2. enable CUPS in /etc/rc.conf cupsd_enable="YES" 3. service cupsd start 4. check dmesg or run lpinfo -v to confirm your host recognizes the USB...

Molina is returning as a special assistant for the Cardinals. We're all thrilled about it. I've pretty much quit watching the NFL.

The process seems error prone. How would I send a simple text file to a printer which I have set up using lpadmin -p myprinter?

That whole scenario was a massive boondogle from the start. It was fun though to see them win while they were there, but it was obvious from the beginning the team was only there for the quick cash given to them by the state. Looks like it's...

we were mistaken on hpijs — thats the old'n'busted. the new hotness is hplip pkg install cups hplip ought to get you somewhere. CUPS is pretty well documented too: https://www.cups.org/documentation.html

As long as it's not the Rams. F Stan Kroenke! as we like to say here in St Louis

It's weird that with all the cheating and the boorish behavior that people still like the Patriots. They're up there with the Yankees and Cowboys as a team that nobody likes.

SOAP looks complicated - like it was designed by committee. However, there are code generators that turn a SOAP schema into classes in your language of choice. REST started as one person's idea that became refined over time. It was easier to...

Ubuntu. The worst system I've ever used. You never know if it will start up after an update. It throws in a bunch of unnecessary stuff. I like minimal systems that I can expand myself with the software I need, not the one they push on me because...

Do not forget the ecosystem XML brings with it: XML stylesheets (XSLT), XQuery, XLink, XPointer, SOAP (though a lot of people seem to think SOAP is a bad thing), XSL-FO. Also, it is easy to integrate other XML languages. For example, if you need...

I like that you can write powerful external validators for XML. You can give them to people who want to make XML files to feed into your software and they get (reasonably) good error messages before they hit the main system.

Alain De Vos the superbowl is worth it mainly for the commercials. According to an old Wall Street Journal article, there's about 11 minutes of action during the game. A Quarz article mentioning the figure...

It doesn't exist by default. You are meant to create it and use it to change the URL in order to switch between 'latest' or 'quarterly' package repositories for example. -RELEASE versions always default to quarterly package repositories, -STABLE...

Patriots. I lived in Boston long enough to get infected. Won't watch the game, though.

I'm connected by USB cable.

usbconfig shows: I've never printed from FreeBSD. I basically hate using printers and have no idea about any drivers. Is this something I can get via pkg install?

If it connects by network, I'll plug my own page https://srobb.net/cliscanprint.html#FreeBSD

It's probably supported by CUPS, and you'll probably need the HPIJS driver.

Someone gave me an old hp deskjet 5150. How would I go about finding out if I can do anything useful with it from FreeBSD?

Yes. cuse(3) is used to create DSP character devices from userspace. The OSS sound system under FreeBSD exposes play/rec devices through /dev/dsp entries which are standard Unix character devices, hence standard Unix file stuff is used to...

Football with hands and a almost-ball? 😆

But the strange thing is, that command would only work after I copied the file named package_list.txt into my root directory. Very strange, but it did work. Maybe tomorrow I will be able figure out why I cannot log into the

You probably want to start out studying the in-kernel mixer if you really want to stay in kernel space and use that as a template.

They are completely different designs. 1. I use a toml format because I found the ports tree makefile to complex. Mine ports.toml name = "expat" version = "2.7.3" summary = "XML 1.0 parser" license = "MIT" deps = [] [src] type = "url" url =...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVFt0szaX_8

For the past 14 years, I’ve been teaching myself how to build a GUI toolkit in C++. My dream has always been to be the first to bring a bsd licensed gui toolkit and desktop environment to freebsd built from scratch. I was even featured on...

So you can do: {"My=key":"My=Value"}

Normally you would do this in userspace, e.g. as a jacl module. The problem with doing these things in the kernel (apart from the crash risk) is that configuring such filters becomes a pain in the allerwertesten.

Alright, thanks. But does the overall idea stay the same: my program should create a character device under /dev (replace /dev/dsp?)? It's still not very clear to me. I know that I can read the raw data from /dev/dsp, so I guess I can create some...

Hopefully that's not a sign of chasing new tech lacking QA :p I primarily used GNOME on Linux and tried it first on FreeBSD; I got it up from the handbook but went with Xfce later. If GNOME didn't work from handbook first-try I might not have...

Not sure if this would solve the problem, but the jail might need allow.sysvipc. allow.sysvipc A process within the jail has access to System V IPC primitives. This is deprecated in favor...

Thank you! Adding allow.sysvipc=1 to /etc/jail.conf did the trick!

I added support for creating custom themes using gradients and implemented screencapture in the compositor.

Thank you for the kind words, would you like to be a beta tester?

Ahh thank you so much, I wish my teen children thought I was really cool still!! I hear china has really good food. Yes freebsd is very interesting, I really like how its one unified core system instead of various parts put together to build a os...

The default visual style reflects what "I" can comfortably design while still finding it visually pleasing, but the UI is fully theme-able. The toolkit is designed around a core engine that provides primitive building blocks, images, text...