Re: Can't play CD / mount CDROM

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Neeff
27;t do anything since BSD cannot find it... when I go in /dev I do not see /cdrom there is only acd0, However when I try mkdir cdrom under /dev it says it already exists...? ls -a doesn't show anything. The intelligence behind the O/S is what amazes me...lol From: Toomas Aas <[EMAIL

Re: Can't play CD / mount CDROM

2005-05-02 Thread Michael Neeff
orget-about-da-rest). I guess I lost my original kernel so that's why I'm in an endless loop... :o( Thanks for your response I'll send y'all the output from the 'grep acd0 /var/run/dmesg.boot' I'm away from my PC right now. From: Toomas Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Can't play CD / mount CDROM

2005-05-02 Thread Michael Neeff
when I try to mount the CD using the below it says: cd9660 /dev/acd0 Input / Output error Thanks! From: Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Neeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't play CD / mount CDROM Date: 02 May

Can't play CD / mount CDROM

2005-05-02 Thread Michael Neeff
Hi all, I've been trying since the past couple of days to get my sound back... it all started when I followed the steps from the manual in setting up statically sound drivers for my old Compaq DeskPro EN series...for FreeBSD 5.3. I included the "snd_sbc" driver, since when I kldload snd_driver i

Re: Cold Reboot (or cold restart) FreeBSD? locore.s hack attempt

2005-04-25 Thread Michael Neeff
Hey Billy, I have the same problem...however am not a hacker :(only a newbie to FreeBSD 5.3. My system for some reason does not do a reboot using: shutdown -r now or reboot now. I am frustrated with having to manually turn on my PC each time I attempt to do a rebootAny solutions out ther

Would like to get back my command prompt!

2005-04-24 Thread Michael Neeff
A newbie with installing FreeBSD 5.3...I installed X and got excited to direcly log on to X (xdm) with the dialog box. I modified the lineto turn xterm on: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm - nodaemon" xterm ON secure. Now I am stuck in a login loop... I would like to configure X and install KDE, but it