RE: Please take this somewhere else (was RE: difference

2004-11-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 8:20 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Please take this somewhere else (was RE: difference > > > > A person may not realize there is a place such

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-10 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:34:14PM -0700, eodyna wrote: > hi everyone, > > I can play mp3's :) but i cant seam to be able to play > cd's. > > any ideas? > > thanks again. It seems likely that the tiny analog or digital cable between your sound card and your CD-ROM drive is not connected. -- D

RE: Installation problem/question -- duplicate sent tosupport@freebsdmall

2004-11-10 Thread Subhro
Well this is really odd, But what you can try to do is, not go for the automatic install. Instead first manually clean up the slices (partitions whatever) and then go back to the automatic install. Although personally, I would anyday prefer a custom install than a default one. Regards S. Subhro S

Re: /dev/io problem in 5.3

2004-11-10 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:22:59 -0500, Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > > >Just got through buildworld/kernel on 5.3. Strange problem I can't > >find the solution to. > > > >Xorg won't start: > > > >Fatal server error: > >xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io fo

RE: problems with sound :[

2004-11-10 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of eodyna Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 12:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problems with sound :[ hi everyone, I can play mp3's :) but i cant seam to be able to play cd's. any ideas? Is the audio c

Re: Installation problem/question -- duplicate sent to support@freebsdmall

2004-11-10 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:05:06 -0600, Jeff Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a machine running win 2000. I want to completely convert the machine > to FreeBSD (not run anything else), I boot from the 5.2 cd and choose use all > the disk and choose automatic to have the system decide what t

RE: Please take this somewhere else (was RE: differencebetweenreleases)

2004-11-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Budd > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 4:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Please take this somewhere else (was RE: > differencebetweenreleases) > > > > While I heartily agree with the

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-10 Thread eodyna
hi everyone, I can play mp3's :) but i cant seam to be able to play cd's. any ideas? thanks again. --ams --- jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eodyna wrote: > > >hi there again, > > > >im having trouble trying to get my sound card to > work. > >it looks like the driver gets loaded but no so

Re: hi all

2004-11-10 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:16:01AM -0800, PLU boy wrote: > hi .. what can i do for a shell/bsd on www.freebsd.org > .. ask me pls ... tnx ...by3 You write a lot of code for FreeBSD and keep submitting them for approval. If you give enough high quality code, they will eventually give you an account

Re: Should I Send a PR?

2004-11-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-10 08:21, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since upgrading from 4.9 to 4.10, I've had the problems described in the > message below. I've posted a couple of times and had no response other > than confirmation that the aic_recovery processes are normal and new > since 4.9. Pl

Re: Mirroring in FreeBSD 5.3 (gvinum?)

2004-11-10 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:33:27AM +, Roy Badami wrote: > > "Roy" == Roy Badami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Roy> Is there some way to do this with gvinum create? Any > Roy> pointers? > > Hmm, I think I should be able to do this using create, too, by > specifying 'volume whate

Re: Sed Help.....

2004-11-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-10 15:15, Rod Person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 November 2004 7:58 pm, mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: > > Take a look at what the shell replacement is actually doing. If you > > were to write the line manually it would look like this: > > > > sed -e 's/\/usr\X11R6\/bi

Putting /usr on a vinum striped volume?

2004-11-10 Thread Tom Przybylinski
Salutations list, Would someone be so kind as to point me at a HOWTO where I can RTFM on moving my /usr to a freshly vinum'd stripey vol? TIA, Tom __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com __

Re: about the tmpmfs="YES" in rc.conf

2004-11-10 Thread LEI CHEN
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 16:11, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-11-11 04:36, LEI CHEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 03:44, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> If you're using the -pipe option of gcc, it shouldn't make such a > >> great difference where /tmp is. I suspect it will ma

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-10 Thread jason
eodyna wrote: Hi jason, thanks for your advice, i will try the vchans. Although i read somewhere that it has some problems associated with it. Thanks I think ich is for the intel stuff, maybe ac97. Problems? It is in the handbook, you will get problems from playing multiply sound sources at

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-10 Thread eodyna
Hi Jorge, Thankyou for your advice.. I orginally installed snd_driver (which contains all the drivers) and it indeed picked up snd_ich. my current /dev/sndstat and dmesg also point to snd_ich. --ams --- "Jorge Mario G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi there > are you sure your sound card is a

Re: Question regarding X windows client-server implementation

2004-11-10 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:10:57PM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: [...] > But then I'm confused by the fact that I can let my > x clients connect to a remote x server,(eg, on a LAN). > > How can that be? > For example, I'm looking at my monitor right now.. > And then there is this xorg ins

Writes failing from jails under pf

2004-11-10 Thread Nolan J. Darilek
I posted something similar to the list a few days ago, but it doesn't appear to have made it into the archives, so I'm trying again after joining. My network consists of one real server, acting as a firewall/router, hosting two separate jails, each of which is a complete system. One runs various n

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-10 Thread eodyna
Hi jason, thanks for your advice, i will try the vchans. Although i read somewhere that it has some problems associated with it. Thanks --- jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eodyna wrote: > > >hi there again, > > > >im having trouble trying to get my sound card to > work. > >it looks like th

Installation problem/question -- duplicate sent to support@freebsdmall

2004-11-10 Thread Jeff Hobson
I have a machine running win 2000. I want to completely convert the machine to FreeBSD (not run anything else), I boot from the 5.2 cd and choose use all the disk and choose automatic to have the system decide what to place where. I creates the necessary partitions/filesystems (/, var,swap and /

Jails, pf and larger packets

2004-11-10 Thread Nolan J. Darilek
I'm having a bit of a problem with jails on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 system. Specifically, since I switched from my ipfirewall/natd-based firewall to pf, jails can't seen to send packets of greater than 46 bytes of data to other systems. My network is set up as follows. The firewall/host box, running 5.2.

Re: /dev/io problem in 5.3

2004-11-10 Thread Gerard Samuel
Louis LeBlanc wrote: Just got through buildworld/kernel on 5.3. Strange problem I can't find the solution to. Xorg won't start: Fatal server error: xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O Please consult the The x.org Foundation support at http://wiki.X.org for help. Yada Yada Yada. O

mounting floppy drive

2004-11-10 Thread Choy Kho Yee
I found something funny regarding mounting floppy drive by normal user. I set up everything needed for a normal user to mount a FDD according to the handbook. I booted up the box, type "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 ~/floppy" and it said I dont have the permission. Then, I su and do that again. Then um

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 fails to shutdown properly

2004-11-10 Thread Subhro
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:25:18 -0800, Loren M. Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:33:51PM +0530, Subhro wrote: > > I have a pure IDE system at the moment. > > Primary Master is a 120G Western Digital HD with UltraDMA 100, Primary > Slave is a 250G WD HD w/ UDMA 100. On my

/dev/io problem in 5.3

2004-11-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Just got through buildworld/kernel on 5.3. Strange problem I can't find the solution to. Xorg won't start: Fatal server error: xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O Please consult the The x.org Foundation support at http://wiki.X.org for help. Yada Yada Yada. Only one hit on Go

Question regarding X windows client-server implementation

2004-11-10 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Good day! Something is bothering me for so long regarding the X windows client-server architecture. First of all, I know that X server(eg; xorg) manages my monitor, keyboard, mouse and video card. And also, the clients are those applications that I run (eg, kde, mozilla). Since I ran them b

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-10 Thread Jorge Mario G.
hi there are you sure your sound card is an ich? first try loading all sound drivers check you sndstat #cat /dev/sndstat trow something to your /dev/dsp and read you dmesg Jorge _ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América La

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-10 Thread jason
eodyna wrote: hi there again, im having trouble trying to get my sound card to work. it looks like the driver gets loaded but no sound comes out. I test this through gnome, running the cd cdplayer under the multimedia tab. Ive checked that the volume is up through the volume control in the same men

Re: Will a SD card reader solve this problem?

2004-11-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 11 November 2004 at 13:40:22 +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:43, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 10 November 2004 at 8:58:27 -0500, Ada Cheng wrote: >>> Good morning, >>> I am trying to connect my Minolta Z2 camera with my box, currently >>>

Re: inetd problem with 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:16:10PM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: > > inetd[xxx]: unknown rpc/udp6 rpc/tcp6 > > Any modification of GENERIC from 5.3 seems to have the > > problem. I have another config that I ported from 4.x that > > works fine (with lots of stuff turned off). It must be some

Re: Will a SD card reader solve this problem?

2004-11-10 Thread Murray Taylor
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:43, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 November 2004 at 8:58:27 -0500, Ada Cheng wrote: > > Good morning, > > I am trying to connect my Minolta Z2 camera with my box, currently > > running 4.10 stable. > > > > ... > > > > After rebuilding the kernel and

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 fails to shutdown properly

2004-11-10 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:33:51PM +0530, Subhro wrote: > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:23:52 -0800, Loren M. Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FreeBSD fails to sync buffers on shutdown and gives up requiring and > > fsck on reboot everytime. It first syncs vnodes which hit 0 after a > > short time, the

Re: BIND9 dump file

2004-11-10 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Im getting a bunch of these in the logs -> Nov 10 10:30:48 gatekeeper named[312]: dumping master file: master/tmp-SLtSQEmBBK: open: permission denied So I figured a filesystem permissions problem. I chowned /var/named/etc/namedb/master to bind:wheel. But when the box gets re

problems with sound :[

2004-11-10 Thread eodyna
hi there again, im having trouble trying to get my sound card to work. it looks like the driver gets loaded but no sound comes out. I test this through gnome, running the cd cdplayer under the multimedia tab. Ive checked that the volume is up through the volume control in the same menu. any idea

Re: inetd problem with 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-10 Thread Boris Spirialitious
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:18:34PM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: > When I build some custom kernels, inetd is refusing to run > with the error: > > inetd[xxx]: unknown rpc/udp6 rpc/tcp6 > > > Any modification of GENERIC from 5.3 seems to have the >

Fixing bad blocks (was: Re: Do you need to dismount /usr to dump it?)

2004-11-10 Thread Matt Staroscik
At 01:18 PM 11/10/2004, you wrote: Your problem seems to be bad blocks in the /usr file system. That has nothing to do with dump. It is a bad spot on the disk. fsck will not fix that sort of thing. If you can figure out what files sit on the bad spots, you might be able to delete them and then d

Re: Apache2 seg faults

2004-11-10 Thread Admin
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 08:03:15PM +0100, Webmaster wrote: Hi everybody. Need help with Apache2 seg fault. I'm totally in my blinds on this one. It seems like the problem occurs when Apache is trying to do a graceful restart. Tried to do some "googling" and searching the m

Mirroring in FreeBSD 5.3 (gvinum?)

2004-11-10 Thread Roy Badami
> "Roy" == Roy Badami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roy> Is there some way to do this with gvinum create? Any Roy> pointers? Hmm, I think I should be able to do this using create, too, by specifying 'volume whatever' when creating the plex. But that just gives me 'invalid plex definit

Solved: BIND9 on 4.10: couldn't open pid file: permission denied

2004-11-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: > Mystery deepens...? Problem solved, yet mystery deepens as to why this happened: I first tried to reinstall bind9 to check that some file had not been messed up by installation of something else. Didn't change a thing. Then I moved my old chroot dir and created a new one

Mirroring in FreeBSD 5.3 (gvinum?)

2004-11-10 Thread Roy Badami
I'm trying to set up a mirrored configuration on FreeBSD 5.3. I currently have the system running from gvinum on ad0. I've created plexes on ad2 to mirror the data onto, but I can't figure out how to add those plexes to the volumes. I figure gvinum attach is what I need, but it just gives me 'u

Re: Knoppix-like FreeBSD-on-a-CD?

2004-11-10 Thread pixiedave
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:34:23 -0500, Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but is there a > FreeBSD-on-a-CD project similar to Knoppix for Linux? > > --Paul Hoffman > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http:

[Fwd: Re: I did it, and now I need to undo it...]

2004-11-10 Thread Jules Gilbert
I benched the machine (I have many of these boxes, a friend of mine and I built these but I didn't have a basis to use these until now -- and now I need them to run TODAY (well, tomorrow but no later.) I am pretty sure that benching them is required, as on the rack, these machines have no termi

RE: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-10 Thread Matthew T. Lager
Hmm, I havn't used it with Windows 2003 server yet, good to know. Thanks! > > >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:owner-freebsd->[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Louis LeBlanc >>Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 4:15 PM >>To: FreeBSD Questions >>Subject: RDEsktop/VNC q

RE: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-10 Thread Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd->[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Louis LeBlanc >Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 4:15 PM >To: FreeBSD Questions >Subject: RDEsktop/VNC questions > >Quick question about interconnectivity. > >You OSX users may be familia

Re: Will a SD card reader solve this problem?

2004-11-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 10 November 2004 at 8:58:27 -0500, Ada Cheng wrote: > Good morning, > I am trying to connect my Minolta Z2 camera with my box, currently > running 4.10 stable. > > ... > > After rebuilding the kernel and rebooting, I tested the configuration by > plugging in my camera. The fo

kernel for network routing

2004-11-10 Thread adrian kok
Hi all How I can tune the kernel to increase the performance for routing purpose? ls it just? 1/ loader.conf kern.ipc.nmbclusters=65536 2/ sysctl.conf net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536 net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536 net.inet.udp.recvspace=65536 Do I need to edit something in kernel and re-compile it

Re: Sed Help.....

2004-11-10 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > > [Rod Person, 2004-11-10] > > Here is the relavent code: > > > > KDMLINE="/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" > > REPLACELINE="/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" > > > > sed -e "s/$REPLACELINE/$KDMLINE/g" /etc/test/ttys > /etc/test/new > >

Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-10 Thread Matthew T. Lager
rdesktop (net/rdesktop) is flawless. Use it everday to manage my Windows 2000 Servers. Supports many many many different features. Highly recommened. > Quick question about interconnectivity. > > You OSX users may be familiar with a very slick little utility called > RDC (Remote Desktop Connection

Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-10 Thread Murray Taylor
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:14, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Quick question about interconnectivity. > > You OSX users may be familiar with a very slick little utility called > RDC (Remote Desktop Connection). Some of you other *BSDers may also be > familiar with one called VNC (Visual Network Connection

RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Quick question about interconnectivity. You OSX users may be familiar with a very slick little utility called RDC (Remote Desktop Connection). Some of you other *BSDers may also be familiar with one called VNC (Visual Network Connection ?) or RDP (?). The purpose of said utilities is to provide a

Re: Sed Help.....

2004-11-10 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Rod Person, 2004-11-10] > Here is the relavent code: > > KDMLINE="/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" > REPLACELINE="/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" > > sed -e "s/$REPLACELINE/$KDMLINE/g" /etc/test/ttys > /etc/test/new > > Here is the error I'm getting: > sed: 1: "s//usr/X11R6

Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

2004-11-10 Thread Sebastian Holmqvist
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:54:21 -0500, Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/10/04 10:54 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:40:13 -0500, Louis LeBlanc > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/10/04 10:29 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the

Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

2004-11-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/10/04 10:54 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:40:13 -0500, Louis LeBlanc > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/10/04 10:29 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > > > > > > > Hey, I found this just now, might be something? > >

Re: XFree86-4 port won't build under 5.3

2004-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:32:16PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is the problem: > > broker# cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 > broker# make > ===> XFree86-4.4.0_1,1 is part of XFree86-4. > broker# > > In other words, it prints this message and exits. I checked the port at the > por

Re: Sed Help.....

2004-11-10 Thread Volker Eckert
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:43:01PM +, Rod Person wrote: > > KDMLINE="/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" > REPLACELINE="/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" > > sed -e "s/$REPLACELINE/$KDMLINE/g" /etc/test/ttys > /etc/test/new > > Here is the error I'm getting: > sed: 1: "s//usr/X11R6/bin

Re: English BT Voyager 105 USB ASDL modem

2004-11-10 Thread arden
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 20:55, Michael Vigar wrote: > Hello, > > Being a newbie, I need some guidance and support. To cut to the chase, does > FreeBSD support the aforementioned device? I would like to install the base > unit, then use my ADSL connection for the rest. > > Go well, > > Mike. I w

FBSD 5.3 | Wrong DMA mode freezes the system?

2004-11-10 Thread Sebastian Holmqvist
I have 2 discs on my Sata-controller card. It's fully supported by FBSD but when it's handling alot of data, the whole machine hangs. I checked with atacontrol and my discs were SATA150, but the documentation says: Currently supported modes are: BIOSDMA, PIO0 (alias BIOSPIO), PIO1, PIO2, PIO3, PIO

A fundamental vinum raid5 problem

2004-11-10 Thread Kim Helenius
I have an absurd problem with vinum. I use the following command: vinum create blob.conf blob.conf: drive d1 device /dev/ad4s1d drive d2 device /dev/ad5s1d drive d3 device /dev/ad6s1d drive d4 device /dev/ad7s1d volume blob plex org raid5 433k sd length 0 drive d1 sd length 0 drive d2

XFree86-4 port won't build under 5.3

2004-11-10 Thread rd3ph-freebsd
This is the problem: broker# cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 broker# make ===> XFree86-4.4.0_1,1 is part of XFree86-4. broker# In other words, it prints this message and exits. I checked the port at the ports monitoring system (portsmon.firepipe.net) and this problem isn't listed. Does any

signal 4 core dumped

2004-11-10 Thread Jim Arnold
My 4.10-STABLE has started dumping core on these apps: Nov 10 17:06:42 spike /kernel: pid 195 (jpilot), uid 1001: exited on signal 4 (c ore dumped) Nov 10 17:07:14 spike /kernel: pid 252 (firefox-bin), uid 1001: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) Nov 10 17:07:22 spike /kernel: pid 253 (gaim), uid

Re: inetd problem with 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:18:34PM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: > When I build some custom kernels, inetd is refusing to run > with the error: > > inetd[xxx]: unknown rpc/udp6 rpc/tcp6 > > > Any modification of GENERIC from 5.3 seems to have the > problem. I have another config that I p

inetd problem with 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-10 Thread Boris Spirialitious
When I build some custom kernels, inetd is refusing to run with the error: inetd[xxx]: unknown rpc/udp6 rpc/tcp6 Any modification of GENERIC from 5.3 seems to have the problem. I have another config that I ported from 4.x that works fine (with lots of stuff turned off). It must be some driv

Re: I did it, and now I need to undo it...

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
> I need to reset my root password; I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and > golly!, going to single user mode no longer works to change a password > -- one gets an authentication error; > > I have complete control of the box, it's in my lab. What do I do to > change the password and bring the machine b

Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

2004-11-10 Thread Sebastian Holmqvist
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:40:13 -0500, Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/10/04 10:29 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > > > > Hey, I found this just now, might be something? > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-August/002921.html > > Not s

Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

2004-11-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/10/04 10:29 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > Hey, I found this just now, might be something? > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-August/002921.html Not sure if this has been addressed yet. Looks like it was encountered in August, so I'd think

Re: difference between releases

2004-11-10 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/9/04 5:24:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm not saying that's how it works, but when this thread started, that's how > it was depicted. >It most certainly wasn't. SInce it was me who said that releases are 'points >in time', which is what you have

Re: Two NICs with one IP address each on the same subnet

2004-11-10 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/9/04 9:58:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "I have a FreeBSD 5.x box with two NICs that I'd like to set up on the same subnet. The purpose is to run separate services on each NIC. I have the box set up with my rc.conf containing the following lines: d

Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

2004-11-10 Thread Sebastian Holmqvist
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:42:43 +0100, Sebastian Holmqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:18:39 -0500, Louis LeBlanc > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/10/04 07:29 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > > > > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:25:18 -0500, Loui

portupgrade

2004-11-10 Thread munn
In using portupgrade I get a series of files that fail to upgrade with the message because it is held by user (specify -f to force) How is a file held and how can you unhold it? Does the -f option unhold it or just ignore the hold? What is the purpose of the hold? With thanks _

Promise SATA150 controller supported?

2004-11-10 Thread Sebastian Holmqvist
How come I saw that 5.x had support several months ago, and when I look today, it's gone? -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Greg Barniskis
At 02:55 PM 11/10/2004, Mike Hauber wrote: Okay, so let's look at this... ISP -- modem -- rl0 -- fbsd -- sis0 -- LAN The kernal obviously has the drivers up and running (else the output of ifconfig wouldn't have shown the interfaces) For _some_ reason, rl0 is showing a status of "no carrier." This

Re: English BT Voyager 105 USB ASDL modem

2004-11-10 Thread Michael Vigar
Hello, Being a newbie, I need some guidance and support. To cut to the chase, does FreeBSD support the aforementioned device? I would like to install the base unit, then use my ADSL connection for the rest. Go well, Mike. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Mike Hauber
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 08:20 am, Ben Haysom proclaimed: > > god# uname -a > FreeBSD god.mshome.net 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE > #0: Thu Jun  5 02:55:42 GMT 2003 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > i386 > > god#  ifconfig -a > rl0: flags=8843 > mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.2

Re: cdrtools & scsi cdrom

2004-11-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 03:24 pm, Vittorio wrote: > Under freeBSD 5.2.1 I compiled cdrtools from /usr/ports/cdrtools. > > Now, even though I'm expert under linux in burning CDs & setting > the ATAPI RW-cdrom as a SCSI one via the module ide-scsi, I can't > figure out how to do the same und

Re: cdrtools & scsi cdrom

2004-11-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 10), Vittorio said: > Under freeBSD 5.2.1 I compiled cdrtools from /usr/ports/cdrtools. > > Now, even though I'm expert under linux in burning CDs & setting > the ATAPI RW-cdrom as a SCSI one via the module ide-scsi, I can't > figure out how to do the same under freebsd

Re: cdrtools & scsi cdrom

2004-11-10 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 November 2004 22:24, Vittorio wrote: > Under freeBSD 5.2.1 I compiled cdrtools from /usr/ports/cdrtools. > > Now, even though I'm expert under linux in burning CDs & setting the > ATAPI RW-cdrom as a SCSI one via the module ide-scsi,

Re: Recommended Video Card with OpenGL Acceleration?

2004-11-10 Thread Chris Kuethe
Just as a follow-up, I'm now running a GeForce2 MX400 with the nvidia drivers port on 5.3 and it just works. Plenty quick enough for now. So whoever it is that was wondering about whether or not the nvidia drivers work on 5.3: "yes, they work well." -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it h

Re: Knoppix-like FreeBSD-on-a-CD?

2004-11-10 Thread Dmitry Tolstov
PH> Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but is there a PH> FreeBSD-on-a-CD project similar to Knoppix for Linux? http://frenzy.org.ua/eng/ ftp://ftp.opennet.ru/pub/FreeBSD/Frenzy/frenzy_v03_release.iso -Dmitry. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

cdrtools & scsi cdrom

2004-11-10 Thread Vittorio
Under freeBSD 5.2.1 I compiled cdrtools from /usr/ports/cdrtools. Now, even though I'm expert under linux in burning CDs & setting the ATAPI RW-cdrom as a SCSI one via the module ide-scsi, I can't figure out how to do the same under freebsd. Could you please help? By the way where, under w

Re: Sed Help.....

2004-11-10 Thread Rod Person
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 7:58 pm, mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: > Rod, > > Take a look at what the shell replacement is actually doing. If you > were to write the line manually it would look like this: > > sed -e 's/\/usr\X11R6\/bin\/xdm/\/usr\/local\/bin\/kdm/g' ... > > Right? > > But the

Re: gnomevfs2 build failure on 4.10

2004-11-10 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 01:43 -0500, jimmie james wrote: > With gnome_update.sh and portinstall this same error comes up, with no > make.conf,. Including after make rmconfig in devel/gnomevfs2 > Fresh cvsup of ports, and removing the tarball. There is a bug in the FreeBSD base version of krb5-confi

Re: I did it, and now I need to undo it...

2004-11-10 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi! Since single user doesn't work anymore I would try the use a LiveCD. Once you mounted your root partition you chroot in there and change the password. That should work. I didn't try, though. Ben On Wednesday 10 November 2004 19:29, Jules Gilbert wrote: > I need to reset my root password; I

Re: Sed Help.....

2004-11-10 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:43:01 + Rod Person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > KDMLINE="/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" > REPLACELINE="/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" > > sed -e "s/$REPLACELINE/$KDMLINE/g" /etc/test/ttys > /etc/test/new > > Here is the error I'm getting: > sed: 1: "

Re: Sed Help.....

2004-11-10 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Rod, Take a look at what the shell replacement is actually doing. If you were to write the line manually it would look like this: sed -e 's/\/usr\X11R6\/bin\/xdm/\/usr\/local\/bin\/kdm/g' ... Right? But the shell doesn't escape the path separators (slashes). You need to escape them yourself in t

Re: devfs + rulesets.

2004-11-10 Thread Anish Mistry
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 07:41 am, you wrote: > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:49:56 -0500 > > Anish Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 November 2004 06:28 pm, Thordur Ivar B. wrote: > > > Good day/night. > > > > > > I have been having some troubles with devfs (the config files that >

Sed Help.....

2004-11-10 Thread Rod Person
I trying to write a script that will make it easier for a friend that I finally talked into trying Freebsd setup a desktop. This part of the script is suppose to change the line in the ttys file to allow kdm to start on boot. Here is the relavent code: KDMLINE="/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon

I did it, and now I need to undo it...

2004-11-10 Thread Jules Gilbert
I need to reset my root password; I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and golly!, going to single user mode no longer works to change a password -- one gets an authentication error; I have complete control of the box, it's in my lab. What do I do to change the password and bring the machine back to no

Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

2004-11-10 Thread Sebastian Holmqvist
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:18:39 -0500, Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/10/04 07:29 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:25:18 -0500, Louis LeBlanc > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/10/04 07:13 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the

Re: Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
Ben Haysom wrote: I'm having major problems setting up my FreeBSD machine as a router/gateway type thing. Where can I go for help? http://www.m0n0.com/wall/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

2004-11-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/10/04 07:29 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:25:18 -0500, Louis LeBlanc > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/10/04 07:13 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Gah!! > > > This drives me mad! > > > >

Re: FreeBSD retailer

2004-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:35:30AM +0100, Danne wrote: > Hi > > My name is Daniel and im about to open a swedish online Linux/BSD > store and im wondering if I can become a retailer for FreeBSD? Sure :) Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsy

Re: DRM on nForce chipset

2004-11-10 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Mi, den 10.11.2004 schrieb jason um 19:14: > Marc Santhoff wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >before i start swapping the mainboard of my computer I'll try one last > >time: > > > >Has anyone managed to get hardware acceleration working on a nVidia > >nForce based mainboard? > > > >I'm talking about an "Ep

Re: Two NICs with one IP address each on the same subnet

2004-11-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sean Peisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a FreeBSD 5.x box with two NICs that I'd like > to set up on the same subnet. The purpose is to run > separate services on each NIC. I have the box set up > with my rc.conf containing the following lines: > > defaultrouter="..." > hostname="..."

Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

2004-11-10 Thread Sebastian Holmqvist
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:25:18 -0500, Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/10/04 07:13 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > > > > > > Gah!! > > This drives me mad! > > > > My cvsup didn't go as I planned, so I reinstalled from scratch yesterday. > > Updated my

Re: where is kopete in the ports?

2004-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 02:23:13AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, I just installed 5.3 with its KDE 3.3, > in the end of it I was hoping to see kopete but I didn't. > I make a search through the ports collection, > it doesnt seem to be there. > > I then tried to download the kopete source a

Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

2004-11-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/10/04 07:13 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > Gah!! > This drives me mad! > > My cvsup didn't go as I planned, so I reinstalled from scratch yesterday. > Updated my ports-tree and installed proftp and set it up. > > I formatted my Sata-discs WITH the logical ge

where is kopete in the ports?

2004-11-10 Thread sekali
hi, I just installed 5.3 with its KDE 3.3, in the end of it I was hoping to see kopete but I didn't. I make a search through the ports collection, it doesnt seem to be there. I then tried to download the kopete source and compile,.. and expectedly there was compilation error. anyway, is kopete no

Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

2004-11-10 Thread Sebastian Holmqvist
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:04:31 +0100, Sebastian Holmqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:25:18 -0500, Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 11/08/04 08:04 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > > > > "I've been getting WRITE_DMA timeouts in /va

Re: DRM on nForce chipset

2004-11-10 Thread jason
Marc Santhoff wrote: Hi, before i start swapping the mainboard of my computer I'll try one last time: Has anyone managed to get hardware acceleration working on a nVidia nForce based mainboard? I'm talking about an "Epox 8RDA+". Grafics card is a MGA400, but this makes no difference, I think. dmesg

Re: Problem connecting with ADSL modem [ was Re: Hello List ]

2004-11-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ben Haysom wrote: > 80.229.247.29 is my static IP and also my default gateway. > Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.255 > > INTERNET > | > | >ISP > |default router: ip 80.229.247.79 > | > | > ADSLmodem > | > | > |rl0: 80.229.247.79 (DHCP but static) >FBSD > |si

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