Re: Error mounting Linux ext2fs drive

2004-10-01 Thread Damon Butler
Now here's the frustrating bit. Time has passed and the machine has been shut down and rebooted a few times. After that initial success, I have never been able to mount that [EMAIL PROTECTED] drive again. I invariably get a Operation not permitted error. What gives? How can I retrieve my form

Re: Error mounting Linux ext2fs drive

2004-09-30 Thread Damon Butler
Grégory Nou wrote: May sound as a stupid question, but did you actually logged as root, or su before performing this command ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have you tried to mount the drive as root? Heh. Yes indeed, first thing I tried. I've also tried mounting the drive as virtually every other us

Error mounting Linux ext2fs drive

2004-09-30 Thread Damon Butler
I recompiled my kernel, including the "options EXT2FS" option line. No problem. After rebooting, I was able to successfully mount my linux drive thusly: mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad0s1 /linux I transferred some files and was very happy. Now here's the frustrating bit. Time has passed and the mach

Re: Chess for Kids (and dummies like dads)

2004-08-04 Thread Damon Butler
I know this is a FreeBSD list I know. But you folks have been such a great resource in general ... and I hoped that others on the list might find the topic interesting/useful. I'll make this my last post to the list on this subject. but there is a really excellent program for learning chess for

Re: Chess for Kids (and dummies like dads)

2004-08-04 Thread Damon Butler
I have another suggestion. I've seen lots of Mac emulators in the ports. Why not use one of these, and run the original program? AFAIK Mac emulation is not even half as painful as Winblows emulation. Daniela Not a bad idea. I've looked into Basilisk before, but it requires Mac ROM dumps, which I d

Re: Chess for Kids (and dummies like dads)

2004-08-02 Thread Damon Butler
May I suggest Phalanx, found in the ports tree? It is an excellent chess program, works wonderfully with xboard, and 'phalanx -e 100' is very likely to meet your needs for a weak chess engine. That looks excellent indeed. Thanks! --Damon ___ [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Chess for Kids (and dummies like dads)

2004-08-02 Thread Damon Butler
well damon, i haven't at all tinkered with gnuchess, so i'm sorry that i cannot help you. i can, however, suggest one alternative, which may or may not be to your liking... since trying the 'game of go' (aka [p,b]aduk, wei-chi), i've entirely lost all interest in the game of chess. Oh, I'm already

Re: Chess for Kids (and dummies like dads)

2004-08-02 Thread Damon Butler
if you haven't already tried it, visit sf.net and plug 'chess' into the search window. it will probably return a bunch of programs, including some which are java based. Thanks. I'll try that out. fwiw, i thought that gnuchess had level settings. are you certain that even level 1 is too difficult

Re: Chess for Kids (and dummies like dads)

2004-08-02 Thread Damon Butler
As a BSD user, I can't help you. As a chess player, I will comment that there's a certain learning curve involved, and playing against random moves isn't going to advance you far along it. I've never known anyone to become even moderately facile at chess without getting their head pounded in on a

Chess for Kids (and dummies like dads)

2004-08-02 Thread Damon Butler
My nearly-eight-year-old son has taken a renewed interest in playing chess, and is also getting his father somewhat inspired as well. A few years ago when he was first interested, I had an old Mac that I ran MacChess on. It was perfect for a five-year-old because you could set it to make completely

Re: Sound issues on dual-boot machine

2004-06-23 Thread Damon Butler
Is my problem indicative of a general driver deficiency in FreeBSD? Is there some module I'm not aware of that, were I to load it, take care of this mysterious "initialization" ? No, this looks like a device specific quirk, like how the 3com 905c will always try and share irq's with my soundcard

Re: Sound issues on dual-boot machine

2004-06-23 Thread Damon Butler
Mike Woods wrote: Damon Butler wrote: Sound functions under FreeBSD only if I boot into Linux first and then reboot the machine into FreeBSD. This sounds rather incredible (to me at least) but here's what I've done to confirm this. Initialisation :) Your soundcard needs initialising be

Sound issues on dual-boot machine

2004-06-23 Thread Damon Butler
I have a dual-boot FreeBSD/Linux machine. I've had lots of trouble getting sound to work under FreeBSD: sometimes it would, and sometimes it wouldn't, and I could never figure out why. But today I noticed a pattern, and with it, a way to always get sound functioning under FreeBSD. It just doesn