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2004-10-20 Thread mohammed arab
Hi FreeBSD, Please help me I have IBM Net vista PIII and I installed FreeBSD 5.2 every thing ok only GUI. Please how can install FreeBSD with GUI. Thanks, _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! h

read variable with numeric values in tcsh

2004-10-20 Thread Martin Paredes
Hi: in a script I wan to read from the user the strin "1 2 3" but I always get an error [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> set var $< 1 2 3 set: Variable name must begin with a letter. any ideas? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

APC UPS question

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Navarre
I'm in the market for a UPS that works with FreeBSD. Does anyone know if the APC Back-UPS Pro 280VA "Just Works" with FreeBSD 4-STABLE and apcupsd? As far as I can tell apcupsd support for usb on FreeBSD is not reliable, but this one's serial and affordable but I'd like to know if it works befor

Re: How to remove a patch from a port?

2004-10-20 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 05:30 am, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 04:45:51 -0700 > Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 October 2004 04:10 am, Ion-Mihai Tetcu > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > > Sorry, let me explain a

Re: hostname

2004-10-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
thx On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:04:48 +0900, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gert Cuykens wrote: > > > > In witch file do you set your hostname ? > > /etc/rc.conf: > hostname="myhostn.my.net" > > Ro. > > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://li

Re: hostname

2004-10-20 Thread Rob
Gert Cuykens wrote: In witch file do you set your hostname ? /etc/rc.conf: hostname="myhostn.my.net" Ro. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: hostname

2004-10-20 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:53:27 +0200, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In witch file do you set your hostname ? /etc/rc.conf will set it at boot. To set it at runtime, type `hostname ` -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. _

hostname

2004-10-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
In witch file do you set your hostname ? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...

2004-10-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 09:33 pm, Eric Schuele wrote: > On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:47 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > I'm using the following atheros products successfully: > > > > D-Link DWL-G520 (pci in a generic desktop running FreeBSD 5.3RC1) > > D-Link DWL-G650 (pccard in a Dell Inspi

something: DESTDIR is not a user settable variable

2004-10-20 Thread Olivier Gautherot
Hi there! I'm hitting regularly the same problem with various ports that deinstall properly during upgrades but won't reinstall. I had the case with firefox this morning. The typical message is: bash-2.05b$ sudo make install clean firefox-1.0.1.p_4: DESTDIR is not a user settable variable

Re: Can't access localhost:631 anymore

2004-10-20 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:39 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:23:15PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: > > I used to access CUPS via http://localhost:631/admin > > > > and now I can't. > > > > I'm running 4.10-STABLE. Did something change ? > > Well, is CUPS still running?

Re: How do you start up gnome-lite ?

2004-10-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
dame that gnome-lite things start fast jezus On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 04:53:13 +0200, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok i figure it out :P works now > > > > > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 03:53:48 +0200, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the commando hostname returns NULL ? > > > > # h

Re: How do you start up gnome-lite ?

2004-10-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
ok i figure it out :P works now On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 03:53:48 +0200, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the commando hostname returns NULL ? > > # hostname > > # > > > > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 03:49:45 +0200, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /etc/hosts > > ::1

Re: Can't access localhost:631 anymore

2004-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:23:15PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I used to access CUPS via http://localhost:631/admin > > and now I can't. > > I'm running 4.10-STABLE. Did something change ? Well, is CUPS still running? Did you upgrade it recently? What do the logs say? Kris pgpKQ6qP5Qg

Re: Can't access localhost:631 anymore

2004-10-20 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:23 pm, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I used to access CUPS via http://localhost:631/admin > > and now I can't. > > I'm running 4.10-STABLE. Did something change ? I failed to mention that I'm using KDE's Konueror web browser. And I have two 4.10 systems, both no long

Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...

2004-10-20 Thread Eric Schuele
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:47 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > I'm using the following atheros products successfully: > > D-Link DWL-G520 (pci in a generic desktop running FreeBSD 5.3RC1) > D-Link DWL-G650 (pccard in a Dell Inspiron 8100 running FreeBSD > 5.2.1) I went out a grabbed a DWL-G650.

Can't access localhost:631 anymore

2004-10-20 Thread Steven Friedrich
I used to access CUPS via http://localhost:631/admin and now I can't. I'm running 4.10-STABLE. Did something change ? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAI

Re: How do you start up gnome-lite ?

2004-10-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
the commando hostname returns NULL ? # hostname # On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 03:49:45 +0200, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/hosts > ::1 localhost 7rx.dyndns.org > 127.0.0.1 localhost 7rx.dyndns.org > > # ping `hostname` > usage: ping [-AaDdfnoQqRrv] [

Re: How do you start up gnome-lite ?

2004-10-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
/etc/hosts ::1 localhost 7rx.dyndns.org 127.0.0.1 localhost 7rx.dyndns.org # ping `hostname` usage: ping [-AaDdfnoQqRrv] [-c count] [-i wait] [-l preload] [-M mask | time] [-m ttl] [-P policy] [-p pattern] [-S src_addr] [-s packetsize] [-t

Re: How do you start up gnome-lite ?

2004-10-20 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 21:34, Gert Cuykens wrote: > why does ping hostname dont work ? > > /etc/hosts > > ::1 localhost localhost.7rx.dyndns.org > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.7rx.dyndns.org > > ping 7rx.dyndns.org works Your hostname is not localhost.7rx.dyn

Re: How do you start up gnome-lite ?

2004-10-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
why does ping hostname dont work ? /etc/hosts ::1 localhost localhost.7rx.dyndns.org 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.7rx.dyndns.org ping 7rx.dyndns.org works On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:12:14 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-20 a

Re: The wheel of a mouse

2004-10-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
It works great now thx On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:17:06 -0500, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 20 October 2004 04:42 pm, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > > > Try this instead of auto: > > > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > > > > I have to speak up and concur here. On my system, I was not

Re: The wheel of a mouse

2004-10-20 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 04:42 pm, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > > Try this instead of auto: > > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > > I have to speak up and concur here. On my system, I was not able to > get moused to properly access my mousewheel. (Yes, I was using the > appropriate option(s) a

Re: How do you start up gnome-lite ?

2004-10-20 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 21:08, Gert Cuykens wrote: > i put > > exec gnome-session > > in a file i created my self calt > > ~/.xsession This should be ~/.xinitrc if using startx. ~/.xsession is from xdm. > > but when i do startx gnome does not start > when i do gnome-session in a xterm gnome

Re: How do you start up gnome-lite ?

2004-10-20 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 08:08 pm, Gert Cuykens wrote: > i put > > exec gnome-session > > in a file i created my self calt > > ~/.xsession Make that ~/.xinitrc -- Best regards, Chris Real programmers understand Pascal. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

Re: How do you start up gnome-lite ?

2004-10-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
i put exec gnome-session in a file i created my self calt ~/.xsession but when i do startx gnome does not start when i do gnome-session in a xterm gnome does start but gives this warning Could not look up internet address for . This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be pos

AMD64 Distribution Does Not Boot

2004-10-20 Thread Richard Vanderbilt
I downloaded the boot only *.iso images from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org for the amd64 FreeBSD versions 5.2.1, 5.3-Beta7, and 5.3-RC1 then created a CD from the image. When I boot from the CD on my laptop (Emachines M6805) the boot loader displays the menu, I then hit the 'Ente

Re: Serial ATA RAID Controllers

2004-10-20 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Oct 20, 2004, at 4:51 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi, I'm looking for some feedback on the following two SATA RAID controllers: http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp (4 port) http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html? sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=AAR -2410S

Re: Another sound question.

2004-10-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
Björn Lindström wrote: Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: now put a music cd into your cd player and type in (as root) "cdcontrol play" if you hear something that sounds like music your good to go Actually, that's a pretty bad test, since that will use your CD-ROM for the sound, ra

Serial ATA RAID Controllers

2004-10-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I'm looking for some feedback on the following two SATA RAID controllers: http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp (4 port) http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=AAR-2410SA&cat=%2fTechnology%2fRAID%2fSerial+ATA+RAID I'd love to hear

Re: Why does my RE not apear *in* the thread

2004-10-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 20), Henk said: > Since I like to post and reply nicely, can anybody explain me how to > reply in a thread, instead of starting a new one? Hit the "reply" or "reply to all" link/button/keystroke in whatever mailer you are using. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTE

mac os X

2004-10-20 Thread rogeriocordeiro
Hello! I am new to FreeBSD and I have some questions regard the licensing. My question is regarding using FreeBSD for profit? Ex. Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD 5.X. Is this allowed or not and if so what are the requirements. I have read the public license and I would have to say with all

Re: Compatibility & freeBSD

2004-10-20 Thread terry tyson
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:35:42 -0400, Lester Stiefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am open to alternate OS. The person told me the OS was legit. I > have my doubts. Now looking for Low cost or free OS to Replace current. > >My current equipment is: Canon S450 printer, Gigabyte Motherboard

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:24:15 -0400 Frank Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thats the downside I suppose, otherwise its great. > And yes, i had mine setup with a AGP card and the other was onboard, > It worked like a charm. Hope this helps. Works on 5x :)

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:22:11 -0400 Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 20, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > What makes a dual headed card? > > The card needs to have two RAMDACs, and two HD-15 VGA or DVI > connectors. > > > My system invoice described the video card as f

Re: The wheel of a mouse

2004-10-20 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
> Try this instead of auto: > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > I have to speak up and concur here. On my system, I was not able to get moused to properly access my mousewheel. (Yes, I was using the appropriate option(s) and did try quite a number fo things.) However, when I switched to ImPS/2

Re: Freebsd and performance

2004-10-20 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/20/04 9:19:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> If those things are taking a while to be there, does fbsd have any >> kernel patches like linux does to improve desktop performance? For >> example like: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ > >

Compatibility & freeBSD

2004-10-20 Thread Lester Stiefel
I am open to alternate OS. The person told me the OS was legit. I have my doubts. Now looking for Low cost or free OS to Replace current. My current equipment is: Canon S450 printer, Gigabyte Motherboard 7zxe, 768Meg RAM, Athlon XP processor @1.4ghz, ATI Radeon 7000series graphics, Turtle

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:33:06 -0400 Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/20/04 08:09 PM, Peter Risdon sat at the `puter and typed: > > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > On 10/20/04 01:40 PM, Michael Clark sat at the `puter and typed: > > > I dont have the computer here to post the config =( >

RE: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Kevin Glick
> > Say bye bye to DRI/GLX if you decide to go multi-head. It > > wont work, thats the downside I suppose, otherwise its great. I beg to differ, it works fine. I used a GeForce MX440, with dual VGA outputs to two 21" monitors, and ran many GL apps across both monitors. Quake 3 at 3200x1200 is p

Re: firefox-1.0.1.p_2 crashing on javascript

2004-10-20 Thread h
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 23:13, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Okay, then try just deleting compreg.dat and formhistory.dat. Note: you > could also backup this directory, and try deleting files until you find > the ones that fix your problem. that does it for me, thanks _

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread luke
you can always try an `X -configure` and see if the resulting xorg.conf has 2 sections for cards. if it does, you will be fine with a dvi to vga adapter. if not, you'll have to get another card. also, it will depend on your motherboard whether you need an agp or pci card. sometimes even if you have

Re: firefox-1.0.1.p_2 crashing on javascript

2004-10-20 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 h wrote: | no, because i have so many cookies i actually need, i can't just save my | bookmarks and delete everything Okay, then try just deleting compreg.dat and formhistory.dat. Note: you could also backup this directory, and try deleting files until

Re: firefox-1.0.1.p_2 crashing on javascript

2004-10-20 Thread h
no, because i have so many cookies i actually need, i can't just save my bookmarks and delete everything On Wednesday 20 October 2004 23:02, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > h wrote: > | ok just rebuilt 1.01p4, and i still can't use my arrow keys in

Why does my RE not apear *in* the thread

2004-10-20 Thread Henk
Dear all, Since I like to post and reply nicely, can anybody explain me how to reply in a thread, instead of starting a new one? Thanks, Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Robert Huff wrote: > Louis LeBlanc writes: > > >> Your config looks like I have to go shopping for another graphics >> card. >> >> Not sure if I can even get the same one now. > > > > Though they're not state-of-the-market, Matrox (with I hav

Re: firefox-1.0.1.p_2 crashing on javascript

2004-10-20 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 h wrote: | ok just rebuilt 1.01p4, and i still can't use my arrow keys in forum editor | boxes. back to the real mozilla. gg firefox Did you follow the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING? Joe | | and don't complain about my top-posting cause IT'S TEH R

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Peter Risdon
Robert Huff wrote: > Louis LeBlanc writes: > > >> Your config looks like I have to go shopping for another graphics >> card. >> >> Not sure if I can even get the same one now. > > > > Though they're not state-of-the-market, Matrox (with I have > always had good results) made dual-headed cards b

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Peter Risdon
Frank Laszlo wrote: [...] >> >> > Say bye bye to DRI/GLX if you decide to go multi-head. It wont work, thats the downside I suppose, otherwise its great. I was under the impression that it won't work on both screens. But I think DRI does work on one. Hence the last bit of my X config: Section "

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed

2004-10-20 Thread Frank Jahnke
There are a number of ways to run dual monitors on FreeBSD, Leaving out the option of having the same desktop on each monitor (which is not very interesting), they are: Independent X sessions on each monitor. This gives you two totally independent screens, each with its own desktop. Advantages:

Re: Help! Vinum drive crashed

2004-10-20 Thread Henk
> Vinum reported one my disks in the volume has crashed. As mentioned in > the thread > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-May/045942.html > I did 2 things. *snip* > ttyp2 0:21 #kneh# [/home/marc>vinum start > Warning: defective objects > > P BigDisk0.p0 C State: corr

Re: firefox-1.0.1.p_2 crashing on javascript

2004-10-20 Thread h
ok just rebuilt 1.01p4, and i still can't use my arrow keys in forum editor boxes. back to the real mozilla. gg firefox and don't complain about my top-posting cause IT'S TEH ROX On Wednesday 20 October 2004 20:56, Dan Finn wrote: > Is there still no fix for this? I have had to start using the

Re: Host name question

2004-10-20 Thread Frank Laszlo
search albyny.adelphia.net nameserver 192.168.0.1 You've got 192.168.0.1 listed as a nameserver. Can't be. That's the ip address of your Netgear router, it acts as a DHCP server not as a DNS server. What is albyny.adelphia.net? Is that your ISP? You need to get one or more nameserver ip's

Re: firefox-1.0.1.p_2 crashing on javascript

2004-10-20 Thread h
i'm compiling p4 right now, let's hope i no longer get the bug that everyone else has not. On Wednesday 20 October 2004 20:56, Dan Finn wrote: > Is there still no fix for this? I have had to start using the latest > version of mozilla and it seems much more stable and faster than > firefox. > >

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Frank Laszlo
Louis LeBlanc wrote: What makes a dual headed card? My system invoice described the video card as follows: 128MB DDR GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI 128FX52 So, I have a TV-Out *and* DVI port on this card. I take it this isn't the same, and I won't get the expected results by pl

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 20, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Louis LeBlanc wrote: What makes a dual headed card? The card needs to have two RAMDACs, and two HD-15 VGA or DVI connectors. My system invoice described the video card as follows: 128MB DDR GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI 128FX52 So, I have a TV-Out *a

Radeon 9800XT fails on FreeBSD with XFree86-4.4.0

2004-10-20 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
Does anyone have a Radeon 9800XT graphics card working with FreeBSD? If so, what's the trick? Thanks, Brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Peter Giessel
On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, at 11:09AM, Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >Section "Device" > Identifier "Card0" [snip] > BusID "pci:1:0:0" > Screen 0 >EndSection > >Section "Device" > Identifier "Card1" [snip] > BusId "pci

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/20/04 03:49 PM, Robert Huff sat at the `puter and typed: > > Louis LeBlanc writes: > > > Your config looks like I have to go shopping for another graphics > > card. > > > > Not sure if I can even get the same one now. > > Though they're not state-of-the-market, Matrox (with I ha

Sharing Internet Connection w/XP

2004-10-20 Thread Bob Perry
Would appreciate any assistance/direction with setting up an internet connection with Windows XP. I'm running 4.9 RELEASE and had an NT box configured previously to share the external modem attached to my FreeBSD box. The NT box was replaced with the XP system. TIA, Bob Perry -- I've learn

SuperCollider

2004-10-20 Thread Björn Lindström
I'd like to get SuperCollider (http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/) to work (with Linux emulation) on FreeBSD. Before I get on it, it would be interesting to know if anyone else has tried to do this, and can confirm that it works, or tell about any trouble they have run into. __

Re: firefox-1.0.1.p_2 crashing on javascript

2004-10-20 Thread Jose M Rodriguez
El Miércoles, 20 de Octubre de 2004 20:56, Dan Finn escribió: > Is there still no fix for this? I have had to start using the latest > version of mozilla and it seems much more stable and faster than > firefox. Yes. Seamonkey it's very mature. Firefox have still many things to tweak and more w

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Robert Huff
Louis LeBlanc writes: > Your config looks like I have to go shopping for another graphics > card. > > Not sure if I can even get the same one now. Though they're not state-of-the-market, Matrox (with I have always had good results) made dual-headed cards based on the G400/450 series

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/20/04 03:33 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: > On 10/20/04 08:09 PM, Peter Risdon sat at the `puter and typed: > > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > On 10/20/04 01:40 PM, Michael Clark sat at the `puter and typed: > > > I dont have the computer here to post the config =( > > > > You n

Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

2004-10-20 Thread Kevin Kobb
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Glenn Sieb wrote: Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 9:01 PM: Gerely speeking, STABLE doesn't mean things never gets broken. Most reliable are the RELEASE plus fixes. So don't follow 5-STABLE but 5-RELENG To help ease frustration and such.. you

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/20/04 08:09 PM, Peter Risdon sat at the `puter and typed: > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > On 10/20/04 01:40 PM, Michael Clark sat at the `puter and typed: > > I dont have the computer here to post the config =( > > You need two screen sections, two monitor sections and two device > sections in t

Re: Host name question

2004-10-20 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:18 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: Alexey Karguine wrote: Bill Schmitt wrote: Well, every other computer on the network is listed as an "attached device" except the FBSD box. And, when I've booted Knoppix in the past, it

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Irrelevant text trimmed. Long/short breakage *not* trimmed, but left as an(other) example. On Friday, 15 October 2004 at 13:33:37 -0600, Tom Connolly wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On 2004-10-15 09:35, Tom Connolly <[EMAIL

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Peter Risdon
Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 10/20/04 01:40 PM, Michael Clark sat at the `puter and typed: I dont have the computer here to post the config =( You need two screen sections, two monitor sections and two device sections in the X config file. If it helps, a working example follows: # less /etc/X11/XF86Co

Re: firefox-1.0.1.p_2 crashing on javascript

2004-10-20 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Finn wrote: | Is there still no fix for this? I have had to start using the latest | version of mozilla and it seems much more stable and faster than | firefox. Upgrade to 1.0.1.p_4. Joe | | | On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 08:54:15 +0800, Erich Dollansky | <

Re: firefox-1.0.1.p_2 crashing on javascript

2004-10-20 Thread Dan Finn
Is there still no fix for this? I have had to start using the latest version of mozilla and it seems much more stable and faster than firefox. On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 08:54:15 +0800, Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > h wrote: > > > bogus ports such as firefox-1.0.1.p_2 should be

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/20/04 01:40 PM, Michael Clark sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > Searching the archives for "dual monitor" came up empty. > > XFree86 supported this, am I am sure Xorg does as well. You just have > to make some changes to the configuration and compile with Xinerama > support. I ran this

Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...

2004-10-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 01:38 pm, scott renna wrote: > Andrew, > > Just saw your post and was wondering how you were able > to get the Dlink-G520 to work. I'm running 5.2.1 > currently and tried to add additional devices into my > kernel according to a post I found on the subject: > > they me

RE: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Michael Clark
> -Original Message- > From: Louis LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 1:32 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed? > > > Hey everyone. > > I'm considering an addition to the desktop. Namely a second > monitor t

Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey everyone. I'm considering an addition to the desktop. Namely a second monitor to set up a two faced system. Maybe it's really a two headed system? Either way, it was real easy to talk the boss (read wife) into it. I just mentioned that I was considering one of two things: A new laptop or

Re: configuring sendmail for relaying mail form data

2004-10-20 Thread Gerry Freymann
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:45:30 -0400 John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm pretty sure it's not the way I've configured the script, because I >only replaced the necessary variables, and the messages are making it >to the mail server queue (but not any further). > >However, other mail (such

Re: The wheel of a mouse

2004-10-20 Thread Mike Schuette
Gert Cuykens wrote: This does not seem to work in my xconf Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "5" EndSectio

Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD

2004-10-20 Thread Gary Aitken
Cristobal, I may have missed some followups to this thread, hope this isn't redundant. If you copy /boot/boot1 to someplace like /root, chmod 500 to make it executable and do an exec /root/boot1 the system will reboot the hard drive, eleminating all bios checks for boot sequence and bypassing the

Re: How do you start up gnome-lite ?

2004-10-20 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gert Cuykens wrote: | I succesfuly installed gnome-lite from ports. | | How do you start it ? See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1 as well as the handbook. Joe | ___ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

Re: Host name question

2004-10-20 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:18 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: > Alexey Karguine wrote: > > Bill Schmitt wrote: > >> Well, every other computer on the network is listed as an > >> "attached device" except the FBSD box. And, when I've booted > >> Knoppix in the past, it showed up, too. What are

How do you start up gnome-lite ?

2004-10-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
I succesfuly installed gnome-lite from ports. How do you start it ? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Mounting data CD

2004-10-20 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:17:02 -0400 Steven Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to mount a data CD as a normal user. It works fine as > root, but I want average users to be able to do it. > > Here's the session: > % mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom > mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation

Re: 5.3 and Dual CPU

2004-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:55:03PM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote: > Yes, it will work fine. I have a dual xeon 2.0ghz dell workstation. It > will work with and without Hyperthreading enabled. With HTT, you will see > four cpus.. without 2. Of course, you'll probably want to run without HTT enabled

Re: Freebsd and performance

2004-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:15:57AM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: > Know you guys coming close to the 5.3 -stable release alot of users are > going to upgrade/switch, right, because this is what we have been waiting > for. What about the performance that 4.X had? Will the performance be equal > ? Wi

Re: throughput test

2004-10-20 Thread Dancho Penev
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:20:58PM +0800, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:20:58 +0800 From: Tomoki Taniguchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: throughput test I have a freebsd firewall/router. I want to test the data throughput through the router with and without

Re: Questions on file descriptors and squid

2004-10-20 Thread Dancho Penev
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 07:17:18PM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:17:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Questions on file descriptors and squid Good day, I have a pc which I am going to turn into one of our sibl

Re: FreeBSD and GCC

2004-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:42:59PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-10-20 13:52, Subhro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:01:07 +0100, Michael Walker wrote: > > > > > > I'm not to familiar with what goes on behind the scenes during the FreeBSD > > > install process. So

Re: Install error OOo-1.1.3 on 4.10p3

2004-10-20 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:59:16 +0200 Benjamin Thelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi lists, > > I am now really stumped and appreciate you for your assistance. I had > this very error already with OOo-1.1.2 on three 4.10p2 FreeBSD boxes > in the end of August, posted it to the list, but got no an

Re: reguarding swap page outs problems

2004-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:40:36AM -0200, Suporte Dsgx wrote: > Oct 20 01:21:25 vds1 /kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno > 93848,size 4096, error 22 > Oct 20 01:21:25 vds1 /kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno > 133328,size 8192, error 22 > Oct 20 01:21:25 vds1

Re: 5.3 and Dual CPU

2004-10-20 Thread Lucas Holt
Yes, it will work fine. I have a dual xeon 2.0ghz dell workstation. It will work with and without Hyperthreading enabled. With HTT, you will see four cpus.. without 2. On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Sean Murphy wrote: Will 5.3 automatically detect a dual xeon server and make the necessary changes? Do

Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...

2004-10-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:58 am, Eric Schuele wrote: > On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:22 am, Eric Schuele wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm having difficulty getting my Atheros 5212 based card to work in > > either of my dell laptops.  The card only has its power LED on for > > about half a seco

Re: Mounting data CD

2004-10-20 Thread Radek Kozlowski
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:17:02PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I'm trying to mount a data CD as a normal user. It works fine as root, but I > want average users to be able to do it. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT -Radek _

Re: Mounting data CD

2004-10-20 Thread Karel J. Bosschaart
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:21:16AM -0700, Kevin Glick wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Steven Friedrich > > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:17 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Mounting data CD > > > > I'

RE: Mounting data CD

2004-10-20 Thread Kevin Glick
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Steven Friedrich > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:17 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mounting data CD > > I'm trying to mount a data CD as a normal user. It works > fine as root, but I

RE: Mounting data CD

2004-10-20 Thread Kevin Glick
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Steven Friedrich > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:17 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mounting data CD > > I'm trying to mount a data CD as a normal user. It works > fine as root, but I

Re: Host name question

2004-10-20 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Alexey Karguine wrote: Bill Schmitt wrote: Well, every other computer on the network is listed as an "attached device" except the FBSD box. And, when I've booted Knoppix in the past, it showed up, too. Also, when I start Apache (2.0) I receive a message "Could not determine the server's

Mounting data CD

2004-10-20 Thread Steven Friedrich
I'm trying to mount a data CD as a normal user. It works fine as root, but I want average users to be able to do it. Here's the session: % mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted % mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /mnt mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permi

Re: Host name question

2004-10-20 Thread Alexey Karguine
Bill Schmitt wrote: Well, every other computer on the network is listed as an "attached device" except the FBSD box. And, when I've booted Knoppix in the past, it showed up, too. Also, when I start Apache (2.0) I receive a message "Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain n

Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)...

2004-10-20 Thread Eric Schuele
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:22 am, Eric Schuele wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having difficulty getting my Atheros 5212 based card to work in > either of my dell laptops.  The card only has its power LED on for > about half a second when it is identified by the os (5.3BETA7), then > it goes off.  dhc

Install error OOo-1.1.3 on 4.10p3

2004-10-20 Thread Benjamin Thelen
Hi lists, I am now really stumped and appreciate you for your assistance. I had this very error already with OOo-1.1.2 on three 4.10p2 FreeBSD boxes in the end of August, posted it to the list, but got no answer. I got along by installing a 1.1.0 package and hoped that this error will be solved

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