Mouse fails with ACPI enabled 8-B4

If I boot with ACPI enabled and then either start X or moused the mouse will appear to work for a few moments and then cease to proccess any input (as tested by moused verbose output, xev, and failure of the mouse to move). This happens on 8.0 BETA 4 If I boot without ACPI the mouse works. Any ide

Re: 7.2-RELEASE/amd64 - weird stuff in dmesg

Any ideas??? Anyone?? Alex R wrote: Hi everyone, I was wondering whether anyone could shed some light on the following messages I am seeing in dmesg: <<33>>aarrpp:: uunnkknnoowwnn hhaarrddwwaarree aaress format (0x) ress format (0x) arp: unakrnpo:w nu n

Re: reducing size of apache instances

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:58 PM, John Almberg wrote: > I assume that some are critical to the basic operation of Apache. I am > hoping I can google a list of these tomorrow. Obviously these I'll have to > live with. This is a pretty short list, and Apache won't start without them. > All I can t

Re: reducing size of apache instances

On Sep 10, 2009, at 7:58 PM, John Almberg wrote: My Apache 2.2 instances are running about 18 Meg each. I've been thinking about doing something to trim these down, and I think tomorrow is the day to take action. They are getting out of hand. [ ... ] But what about the set that is left after

linux-pango won't install

For some reason, the x11-toolkits/linux-pango port won't install on my FreeBSD 7.2 system. When I try, I get the following: [Gathering depends for x11-toolkits/linux-pango .. done] ---> Installing 'linux-pango-1.10.2_3' from a port (x

reducing size of apache instances

My Apache 2.2 instances are running about 18 Meg each. I've been thinking about doing something to trim these down, and I think tomorrow is the day to take action. They are getting out of hand. I've done a bit of research on this. I think the way to get started is to eliminate unused modules.

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 7.1 RELEASE.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Rom Albuquerque wrote: > > > > > Hi. I'm having trouble installing 7.1 release. > > The details of my system : > > Motherboard : EliteGroup (A740GM-M) > RAM : 3G DDR2 800Mhz > CPU : AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core processor > Disk :WD 500GB SATA

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:07:04PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:51:29AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > I just turn off the touchpad in my ThinkPad's BIOS/CMOS settings. That's > > pretty much the *first* thing I do with a new ThinkPad, before I even > > install a halfw

Problem installing FreeBSD 7.1 RELEASE.

Hi. I'm having trouble installing 7.1 release. The details of my system : Motherboard : EliteGroup (A740GM-M) RAM : 3G DDR2 800Mhz CPU : AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core processor Disk :WD 500GB SATA DVD : Samsung DVD/Writer "Super Write Master" Primary OS : Win

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:51:29AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:29:25AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:08:36 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10" screen that has a ThinkPad-like > > > stick > > > to act as the

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:29:25AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:08:36 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10" screen that has a ThinkPad-like > > stick > > to act as the mouse. > > This "stick" is called a TrackPoint, as far as I remember. I

Upgrading 6.0 to 6.x... without /var

I have a 6.0 installation without a /var slice. Instead I have a soft link of /usr/var to a /var@ file. Now I am attempting an upgrade to 6.4 and getting an error condition. I am using Disk 1 of the 6.4 distro >> Upgrade [Upgrade an existing system] >> All [All system sources. binaries and X-Wind

Re: What I'd Like To See In A Netbook

Michael David Crawford writes: > Just in case there are any netbook manufacturers listening in, or > employees of such manufacturers: > > What I'd really like to see is a netbook with a regular size > screen. I've been shopping around some, and have so far been unable to > find what I desire. > >

Re: What I'd Like To See In A Netbook

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:54:50AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: > Just in case there are any netbook manufacturers listening in, or > employees of such manufacturers: > > What I'd really like to see is a netbook with a regular size screen. > I've been shopping around some, and have so f

DVD drive not detected

Hello, I am currently using 8.0-BETA4 amd64 and I noticed yesterday that my PC's internal DVD reader/writer is not detected at boot time. I'm not sure whether or not this was the case with BETA3 since I don't use the drive all that often. It was certainly working ok with 7.2-STABLE though. I ha

What I'd Like To See In A Netbook

Just in case there are any netbook manufacturers listening in, or employees of such manufacturers: What I'd really like to see is a netbook with a regular size screen. I've been shopping around some, and have so far been unable to find what I desire. What I mean by that is that I want a note

Re: Correct way to configure an IP range for firewall

Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Maxim Khitrov wrote: Am I correct in assuming that I just need to add four ifconfig_vr0_alias[0-3] lines to rc.conf? What happens if in the future we get a much bigger IP block, is there a more efficient way of accompli

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:29:25AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:08:36 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10" screen that has a ThinkPad-like > > stick > > to act as the mouse. > > This "stick" is called a TrackPoint, as far as I remember. I

Sites using FreeBSD

Hi there, Is there a chance to get listed under "Sites using FreeBSD" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nutshell.html#INTRODUCTION-NUTSHELL-USERS? Or are there any possibilities for advertisements on any pages of http://www.freebsd.org/

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Re: VirtualBox not opening... from 7.2 STABLE, (GUI KDE 3.5)

Great!! I will try running the app as a regular user, as I did add myself on the virtualbox group... Should be alright from there... I'll let u know as soon as i finish my portupgrade -a (thats taking year and a half) lol Thanks!!! 2009/9/10 Polytropon : > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:10:11 +, Jero

Re: About DHCP

In response to Ley : > I heared that freebsd will boots very slow if enables dhcp. Is that true? I > am a adsl user and I can not get a certain IP, how can I make freebsd boots > fast? If DHCP makes the system boot slowly, then it's not FreeBSD's fault. DHCP addresses are acquired very quickly i

About DHCP

I heared that freebsd will boots very slow if enables dhcp. Is that true? I am a adsl user and I can not get a certain IP, how can I make freebsd boots fast? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: Correct way to configure an IP range for firewall

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Maxim Khitrov wrote: > >> Am I correct in assuming that I just need to add four >> ifconfig_vr0_alias[0-3] lines to rc.conf? What happens if in the >> future we get a much bigger IP block, is there a more efficient way of >> accomplishing the

device nodes in usb2 stack

i was wondering why some device nodes appear as regular files under /dev (like ulpt or da e.g.) and some don't? if i attach my usb dongle device i get this dmesg output: ugen1.2: at usbus1 ubt0: on usbus1 but no device node gets created under /dev. however the following lines i have in my /etc

Re: DVD-R not recording .iso

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 22:33:27 -0400 (EDT), Chris Hill wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Al Plant wrote: > > > Aloha, > > > > on FreeBSD 8 Current > > > > I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of > > /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . > > > > #growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=/path/7.2

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:08:36 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10" screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick > to act as the mouse. This "stick" is called a TrackPoint, as far as I remember. It has been common in portable computers built by IB and Toshiba. > Pref'ly

Re: VirtualBox not opening... from 7.2 STABLE, (GUI KDE 3.5)

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:10:11 +, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > But I am getting following error when launched from the terminal: > > > # VirtualBox > > No protocol specified > > Failed to open the X11 display! Of course. You are trying to write to the X display as root, but the display belongs to !