Mouse stopped working in X

2012-05-18 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Hi, Before the update of x11 on 4/21/2012, X was working fine, but now when I startx, my usb and touchpad mouse are no longer found. The mouse works in terminal mode, and hald and dbus are started in /etc/rc.conf. I rebuilt x11, but that had no effect, any ideas on what I might do to get the mo

Re: pkgdb failure

2007-11-12 Thread J. W. Ballantine
- > Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:24:14 +1100 > To: "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: matti k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: pkgdb failure > > On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:06:54 -0500 > "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: pkgdb failure

2007-11-09 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Thanks, I thought it was something like that, that's why i rebuilt th pkgdb. -- In Response to your message - > Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:30:47 -0800 > To: "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Ga

pkgdb failure

2007-11-09 Thread J. W. Ballantine
After upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-RELEASE, I tried to rebuild all the packages from portupgrade -af I started getting the following error messages. The first once, the second multiple times, even after I moved the pkgdb.db and did a pkgdb -fu. [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or form

Re: slice/booting problem

2007-03-05 Thread J. W. Ballantine
The third party boot manager does play nice, I've had this setup working before (with the same BM [smartboot]), and everything worked fine. Thanks -- In Response to your message - > Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:45:51 -0500 > To: "J. W. Ballantine&qu

slice/booting problem

2007-03-02 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I have a two disk system, and I'm trying to install FBSD6.2 on slice 2 of the second disk, a configuration that I've had working in the past. I'm using the Standard installation, select the second disk (ad1) and create a slice (ad1s2) and then create the partitions within that slice. On that dis

Re: system bootup console setup

2006-12-15 Thread J. W. Ballantine
gt; > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 20:00, J. W. Ballantine wrote: > > Ok, I should be able to find this somewhere > > in the documentation, but I can't (must be looking > > for the wrong key words). > > > > When the system boots, the consoles nee

system bootup console setup

2006-12-06 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Ok, I should be able to find this somewhere in the documentation, but I can't (must be looking for the wrong key words). When the system boots, the consoles need to be initialized and defined somewhere. I want to change the definition, but I can't find the startup script that init's them. Whic

slice vanishing

2006-10-16 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Hi, I've been running BSD, for several versions, as a VMWARE client on a persistant disk. Recently, following an update to 6-stable/pre-release, the label for slice that the system was on has been removed. When I try and boot the system, it reads and loads the kernel but it fails when it trys to

6-RELEASE, calcru, FAQs and kern.timercounter.method

2005-12-02 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I've been getting the calcru: negative time message. After search the site I found the FAQ (5.18) that says to set this variable sysctl kern.timecounter.method=1. When I do that, I get sysctl: unknown old 'kern.timercounter.method'. What is the fix/search term for 6-release?? Thanks Jim Bal

calcru: runtime went backwards

2005-12-01 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I running 6-RELEASE as a guest under vmware 5.5 and I'm having problems with the clock going backwards. I'm getting the message (sample): calcru: runtime went backwards from 10542602 usec to 10542600 usec for pid 13924 (vmware-guestd) calcru: runtime went backwards from 11589627 usec to 115896

Re: pausing boot process

2005-11-17 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Thanks, but I don't get to the boot prompt, it dumps core and then goes to reboot mode. -- In Response to your message - > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:28:05 -0500 > To: "'J. W. Ballantine'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTE

pausing boot process

2005-11-17 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I've started to get an error during the boot process that scrolls off the screen so rapidly that I don't have a change to read it. Is there someway to pause the scrolling/process so the error is read-able?? Thanks for any hints. Jim Ballantine ___ f

Re: mergemaster and RELENG6

2005-11-11 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Thanks, my understanding was mergemaster before installworld. But that appears to be wrong. -- In Response to your message - > Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:05:37 -0700 (MST) > To: "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Warren Block <[

mergemaster and RELENG6

2005-11-11 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I'm trying to install RELEASE6 on a BSD machine, and the install fails in the mergemaster stage with: mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BIND.chroot.dist -p /var/tmp/temproot/var/named ./dev missing (created) ./etc missing (created) ./etc/namedb missing (created) ./etc/namedb/dynamic missing (cr

Re: 5-STABLE to 6-RELEASE upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread J. W. Ballantine
esponse to your message - > Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:36:01 +0800 > To: "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Dinesh Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: 5-STABLE to 6-RELEASE upgrade > > > > On 11/08/05 02:25 J. W. B

5-STABLE to 6-RELEASE upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I'm trying to upgrade from 5-STABLE to 6-RELEASE, and I fail during the kernel install phase of the process. I deleleted the /usr/src tree and did a cvsup to get the new bits. I then ran a make world; make buildkernel; and then a make installkernel. This steps fails with: cd /var/tmp/temproot/

date error

2005-05-06 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-stable under VMware Workstation 5. When I run date it replys "Sat May 6 09:19:53 EDT 2000" Now everything is ok except it's Fri 2005. When I check the clock on the windows side it reports the year correctly. Anybody know why BSD thinks it's 5 years earlier??? Tha

directory Operation not permitted

2004-12-07 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD5-stable and there is a directory named "empty" in the /var/tmp/temproot/var path, created by mergemaster, that will not allow me , as su, to chmod or remove. Any time I try I get Operation Not Permitted. There doesn't seem to be anything special about it, any thoughts

Re: ntfs mount

2004-05-07 Thread J. W. Ballantine
May 2004 19:10:17 +0100 > To: "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: ntfs mount > > Mark Ovens wrote: > > > Not come across Smart Boot Manager but I wonder if it creates a small > >

Re: ntfs mount

2004-05-07 Thread J. W. Ballantine
ting the disk. Jim -- In Response to your message - > Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 18:40:15 +0100 > To: "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: ntfs mount > > J. W. Ballantine wrote:

Re: ntfs mount

2004-05-07 Thread J. W. Ballantine
ector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 -- In Response to your message - > Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 21:51:33 +0100 > To: "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: ntfs mount

Re: ntfs mount

2004-05-06 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Seems our friends in redmond have done something strange with the fs type. both w2k partitions on the disk show a type of 45 and both freebsd show 165. Thanks Jim -- In Response to your message - > Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 20:40:45 +0100 > To: "J. W. Ballanti

Re: ntfs mount

2004-05-06 Thread J. W. Ballantine
-- In Response to your message - > Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 19:28:27 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: ntfs mount > > J. W. Ballantine wrote: > > > Ok, either I'm missing some

ntfs mount

2004-05-06 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Ok, either I'm missing something very basic or I'm trying to mount a w2k ntfs file system with: mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /C and I get back: mount_ntfs: /dev/ad0s1: Invalid Argument I'm told this is an ntfs5 file system, could it be that FreeBSD doesn't grok this type of fs or am I missing so

Re: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net

2004-03-19 Thread J. W. Ballantine
ks for the response. Jim -- In Response to your message - > Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:28:34 -0500 (EST) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. W. Ballantine) > From: Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net > > &

FreeBSD as vmware guest OS and net

2004-03-18 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I have a box with w2k as the primary OS and FreeBSD 4.9-stable installed as a dual-boot. I also have vmware 4 installed under w2k with bsd as the guest OS. My problem is I can't get bsd to talk to the network card. What settings do I need and/or network driver do I need to set??? Jim ___

Re: gateway on different subnet

2002-12-18 Thread J. W. Ballantine
#!/bin/sh /sbin/dhclient xl0 -- In Response to your message - > Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:26:34 -0800 (PST) > To: "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: gateway on different subnet > >

Re: gateway on different subnet

2002-12-16 Thread J. W. Ballantine
arco Radzinschi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: gateway on different subnet > > If you just do a dhcp setup, do an ifconfig -a, netstat -r and paste the &g

Re: gateway on different subnet

2002-12-16 Thread J. W. Ballantine
: Network is unreachable add net default: gateway 10.17.47.37: Network is unreachable -- In Response to your message - > Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:46:12 -0500 (EST) > To: "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Marco Radzinschi <[EMAIL

Re: gateway on different subnet

2002-12-16 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Yes, the default gateway and leases are passed, but the network connection is not setup and I can't even ping the gateway. -- In Response to your message - > Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:40:40 -0200 > To: "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

gateway on different subnet

2002-12-16 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Hi, In order to save the internet address space, my cable co has setup their network with a live address for my PC but an address on a private 10.0.0.0 network for the cable modem. Now of course, this is also the gateway and dhcp server. The problem is trying to get FreeBSD to use this private ad