Re: FreeBSD-multi-boot

2006-05-15 Thread Danny Butroyd
Vlad GURDIGA wrote: > Hello all, > > I have these slices on my HDD: > - /dev/ad0s1 - Windows XP > - /dev/ad0s2 - FreeBSD/i386 > - /dev/ad0s3 - FreeBSD/amd64 > > and I want them all in my boot.ini. > > Till now I succeeded with FreeBSD/i386 (first did "dd if=/dev/ad0s2 > of=boot.bsd bs=512 count=1"

Re: direct rending doesnt work in xorg

2006-04-18 Thread Danny Butroyd
Björn König wrote: > Danny Butroyd schrieb: > >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Card0" >> Driver "ati" >> VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" >> BoardName "Radeon R250 L

direct rending doesnt work in xorg

2006-04-16 Thread Danny Butroyd
Hi All I have been tearing my hair out trying to fix this problem. Basically Direct Rendering isnt working. My setup:- OS:- FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #3 Xorg Installed from ports:- [rvn] /home/danny# pkg_info | grep xorg xorg-6.9.0 X.Org distribution metaport xorg-clients-6.9.0_2 X cli

Re: Firefox 1.5 getting downright irritating

2006-04-04 Thread Danny Butroyd
Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On April 3, 2006 5:48:34 PM +0100 Danny Butroyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>>> >>>> Maybe you're editing the wrong file? Or while Firefox is running? Too >>>> tight file permissions? Just some thoughts. Here's m

Re: Firefox 1.5 getting downright irritating

2006-04-03 Thread Danny Butroyd
Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Monday, April 03, 2006 18:11:25 +0200 Karol Kwiatkowski > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> it's working here as expected - "Don't ask at startup" box changes >> StartWithLastProfile to 0/1 and ProfileManager starts every time if >> set to 0. >> >> I'm using it ever since

Re: Portupgrad Problem

2006-04-03 Thread Danny Butroyd
Cody Holland wrote: > Using FreeBSD 5.4-Stable #0. Trying to update my ports using portsnap, > pkg_version, and portupgrade. All goes well until I get to portupgrade > -arR. All my ports update except for of them. Here is the message I > get: > > # portupgrade -arR > cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/

Re: stupid question - disk mirroring

2006-03-22 Thread Danny Butroyd
Wojciech Puchar wrote: > what is right/best/simplest way to configure mirrored disk system? > there was raid driver in NetBSD, but how in FreeBSD. possibility of > booting from this set is important. > If you are talking software raid then try Geom. A really nice howto can be found here:- http://

Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Danny Butroyd
Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear Jud and friends: > > OK, I finally figured out how to make OSL2000 work. In scanning all > bootable partitions, it lists FreeBSD as two partitions: the 512 MB > /boot partition (name unknown) and the FreeBSD 37 GB partition. It > will not boot FreeBSD from the FreeBSD pa