RE: /dev/eth0 question [FC4]

2006-01-08 Thread Peter Leftwich
r FC4 was just SO MUCH SIMPLER and inviting, and if I may venture to say... even easier than any M$FT one. {Doesn't get why Linux doesn't use ufs, instead of ext2 and ext3 for FS's!} -- Peter Leftwich, Owner Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http:/

Re: /dev/eth0 question - prefer reply in next 20mins

2006-01-07 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Robert Slade wrote: As the problem is with FC4 why not ask on their mailing list? Rob Good point, and I apologize for the transgression. (With my PC off, I took out the NIC, tapped it, blew dust off it, rebooted and DSL worked fine! Go figure.) :) -- Peter Leftwich

/dev/eth0 question - prefer reply in next 20mins

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Leftwich
p" claims there is no such device. Any ideas? Maybe I need to replace the NIC (3Com Etherlink card that's about 7yrs old)?? Thank you in advance, I truly appreciate it, and have a joyous weekend. Wish I were in Vegas at C.E.S.! -- Peter Leftwich, Owner Video2Video Services Box 136

Who ever knew RTFM would work :)

2005-10-21 Thread Peter Leftwich
ntally type "cat $SHELL" once (lol) (try it to mess up your ANSI) ...Well "man -k shell" gave me the answer so now I am STOKED!! chsh -- Peter Leftwich, Owner Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___

Suggestions for www.freebsd.org and questions

2005-09-09 Thread Peter Leftwich
each 'datasheet' or 'lab report' if you will, linked to the product listed at an official company URL e.g. http://store.ibm.com/products.php?ThinkpadXYZ1000 -- Peter Leftwich, Owner Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http:/

Re: pkg_add -rf XFree86 (on 5.2-RELEASE)?

2005-06-09 Thread Peter Leftwich
inally!) with the 5.4-REL iso's. I had originally abandoned my 5.2-REL HDD since the cordless mouse krunked. Well thank you for your speedy replies, you and Mr. Kennaway, thank you!! -- Peter Leftwich Founder & President, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA,

pkg_add -rf XFree86 (on 5.2-RELEASE)?

2005-06-09 Thread Peter Leftwich
Hello again, List! It has been many months since my last confession, er, POST. :) My question. Generally, what is the easiest way to reinstall XFree86 to a 5.2-RELEASE working system? Is there a separately- hosted "ports" area, other than "current?" Thanks very much

Re: `pkg_info | grep -i openssh` ; echo "2.9 vs 3.0.2?" [cjc]

2004-09-24 Thread Peter Leftwich
OpenSSH_3.0.2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090601f # mv /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh_2.9_old_dont_use # ln -s /usr/local/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh I guess that last line isn't really necessary if I adjust my $PATH, huh? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La

Re: Microsoft Cordless Optical Mouse and 5.2

2004-08-29 Thread Peter Leftwich
says "Wireless IntelliMouse(R) Explorer." It does not work with 5.2-RELEASE! >:-( Regards, Chip -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EM

Re: Microsoft Cordless Optical Mouse and 5.2

2004-08-28 Thread Peter Leftwich
CanoScan scanner was not supported. Now I hear that it is under 5.2 but my M$ft cordless optical mouse is not (out of the box and into USB that is...) Ppplllplplppplplp! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Vide

Re: Microsoft Cordless Optical Mouse and 5.2

2004-08-28 Thread Peter Leftwich
. -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology, Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 - India Almost a yeayyy out of me - Yes, I have the GENERIC kernel, and tried the very-comforting-to-rediscover /stand/sysinstall, tried various protocol types and ports to no avail. :( -- Peter Leftwich

Microsoft Cordless Optical Mouse and 5.2

2004-08-28 Thread Peter Leftwich
hardware.html URL of current anchor http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware-i386.html ? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROT

25mb vs 300mb ports

2004-04-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
matter of compressed versus uncompressed? Why the discrepancy? By the way, thank you to the many erudite and friendly faces who responded to my lament -- I am happy to see a lot of devices now supported under 5.2.1!! -- Peter Leftwich, President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La J

lament about freebsd sacrifices

2004-04-14 Thread Peter Leftwich
and 2 devices * IM software features such as voice and video chat * websites that use ActiveX (Windows) controls * MP3 devices Any major sacrifices I've forgotten? ":-\ -- Peter Leftwich, President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.V

Re: Boot time, init? getty repeated too many times

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Leftwich
Ryan Merrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Leftwich wrote: >> [snip] getty repeated too many times and that it will halt for 30 >> seconds. [snip] > H, Review your #/etc/ttys and comment out any questionable lines. > -Ryan Merrick / [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was able

Boot time, init? getty repeated too many times

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Leftwich
ks up. -- Peter Leftwich, President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

2004-02-12 Thread Peter Leftwich
eebsd] operating system and running a daemon. Thanks mucho diGiornio, -- Peter Leftwich, President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Share/Freeware to see FBSD from Win_XPproSP1?

2004-02-07 Thread Peter Leftwich
Is there a program ("go-between") that I can use to read my FreeBSD slices from Winbloze XP Pro SP1? I need to clean up some old OSs, make space...! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.V

Re: fixit

2004-01-06 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > I saw your post about the lack of documentation for "fixit" and > > wondered if you may be an expert or seasoned user on the topic? Thank > > yo

fixit

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Leftwich
it shell?? [3] What sequence of commands do I use to mount to a UFS floppy or UFS filesystem on my hard drive (and do I have to know which /dev/ and do I have to fdisk and label mountpoints in sysinstall ahead of time??)??! If anyone can clarify these three questions, I would forever be grateful.

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

2003-12-27 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:34:17AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > The problem I now have is that I would like to mount_msdos a regular floppy > > then copy ("cp" or "cpio?") a file from it called ld-elf.so.1 to the &

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

2003-12-26 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Matt Emmerton wrote: > > > (I am posting this because a search for the subject above in Google turned > > > up not much... not much 'tall!) > > > > > > What should a user do if

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

2003-12-26 Thread Peter Leftwich
for mounting both an msdos floppy then my 4.7 partition? Then must I use cpio to copy "A:\ld-elf.so.1" over to the 4.7 partition?? Thanks, I really appreciate it. When I am back online, I plan to make a donation to the freebsd foundation or whichever way that www.freebsd.org takes donat

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

2003-12-24 Thread Peter Leftwich
ror messages. Could they be what tar/gzip is talking about? There is a random timer probably counting down to my next kernel panic from this Knoppix 3.2 Debian Linux CD-R I am booted up into!! I better scoot. Help. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692,

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

2003-12-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
somewhere of the contents? Is the consensus that if this /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 file is replaced then all should be fixed? Thanks Ulf! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com _

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

2003-12-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
Ulf Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ld-elf.so.1 should also be on the first CD. Its just inside > the split tar.gz files which make up the base of FreeBSD. > > Check out the bin/ directory on the cd, all the bin.[a-z][a-z] > files are a split of a large tar.gz, and that includes the > ld-el

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

2003-12-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kindly transmitted: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:32:07AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > What should a user do if their, uhm, /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 > > file is missing on 4.7-RELEASE? Can said user `touch > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf

missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

2003-12-22 Thread Peter Leftwich
from another OS and copy over a friend's or a web-hosted ld-elf.so.1 file? Or could I, I mean my friend, use some of the contents of "src/" on a 4.7-RELEASE CD-R to recreate (via compiling) this needed file?? Please help. It could be your gift to me. -- Peter Leftwich President &a

Re: How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly

2003-12-21 Thread Peter Leftwich
cv-keys ACC46EF9 > Key fingerprint = E52E 8153 8F37 74AF C04D 0714 364F 540E ACC4 6EF9 > I love the smell of filtered spam in the morning - it smells like victory! Thanks Jonathan!!! :) The chown sshhtick did the trick!! I hope my changes were not permanent (i.e. to the live filesys

Re: www.knoppix.net and maybe one day "FreeBSDCDR?"

2003-12-21 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Daniela wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2003 03:33, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > Hi again, Could someone explain how to create a similar bootable CD-R of FreeBSD > > that, at boot-time, would mount root to a ramdisk and run Gnome or KDE > > automatically?

Re: How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly

2003-12-19 Thread Peter Leftwich
Ruben de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... >> currently-running X session. That would allow me to use KDE and >> Konqueror to browse graphically to the directory >> /mnt/freebsdpartition ... anyone know how? > Not n

Re: How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly

2003-12-19 Thread Peter Leftwich
Ruben de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:48:40AM -0500, Peter Leftwich typed: >> Here is how to mount your freebsd partition from Linux (in my >> case, it was a CD-R of the Debian-based bootable known as >> Knoppix available from www.kno

How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly

2003-12-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
Konqueror to browse graphically to the directory /mnt/freebsdpartition ... anyone know how? Happy holidays everyone, and happy reading-of-the-manpages!! :0) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA ht

[Fwd: fixit.flp or fixit via "live filesystem" CD]

2003-12-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
sh driving a tricycle (that is, useless!) Someone please comment from experience!!! Thank you so much. Original Message Subject: fixit.flp or fixit via "live filesystem" CD From: "Peter Leftwich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, December 18, 2003 2:

fixit.flp or fixit via "live filesystem" CD

2003-12-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
ddress in your reply... -- Peter Leftwich, President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsub

www.knoppix.net and maybe one day "FreeBSDCDR?"

2003-12-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
x27;t figure out how to mount the partition that has my 4.7-RELEASE root "/") and worth checking out. Give it as a gift to a techie on your list!!! PS: Please CC my email address if you reply, thanks. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla,

Re: 4.7-RELEASE bootable CD-R to replace files

2003-12-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:36:33AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > Hello fellow BSD'ers! Happy holidays. > > I had 4.7-RELEASE on my box and then I accidentally deleted a file > > as root (I think it was /usr/lib/ld-e

4.7-RELEASE bootable CD-R to replace files

2003-12-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
t;/" then select bin, compat, libraries etc or will this possibly OVERWRITE a directory I currently have (mounted) such as /root/mydocuments/ ?? Thanks to anyone who can clarify this procedure. PS: Please reply CC: to my email address as well as the list. -- Peter Leftwich, President & Fou

Suggestion to display date/time of port addition or modification

2003-11-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
ded and "fetch" them in sequence? This seems far simpler than 19 megs of unnecessary files that may never be used possibly. Thank you for listening, hopefully my remarks generate some discussion. -- Peter Leftwich, President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92

Re: xv flag to not create ~/dir/dir/.xvpics/

2003-09-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Vlad D. Markov wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:44:16 -0400 (EDT) > Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The option vsmap is asking for an image browser. The program need not > > necessarily cache thumbnails on the hard disk. Perhaps this is

Re: xv flag to not create ~/dir/dir/.xvpics/

2003-09-16 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > From: Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If I `cd ~/dir/dir` then run `xv -vsmap` xv creates cached thumbnails. > > Does anyone know of a flag for "xv" to -NOT- cre

xv flag to not create ~/dir/dir/.xvpics/

2003-09-12 Thread Peter Leftwich
If I `cd ~/dir/dir` then run `xv -vsmap` xv creates cached thumbnails. Does anyone know of a flag for "xv" to -NOT- create a directory called ".xvpics"? I do not want xv to create this directory. Thanks. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13

Problems finding 'ogle' package

2003-09-11 Thread Peter Leftwich
uires only libraries/dependencies F, G, H, and I??} Could someone please check the two links. Thanks! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: Mirroring tool? web snake? getbot?

2003-07-30 Thread Peter Leftwich
> On 2003-07-29 21:54 -0700, Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> All I'd like is a graphical tool that prompts the user for a URL then >> proceeds to mirror that URL to the working directory or to a "base" >> directory specified in its prefer

FW: Mirroring tool? web snake? getbot?

2003-07-29 Thread Peter Leftwich
bad). We'll see what I can come up with. It sure would be nice -- and worth registering just for the feature -- if Opera could download all files ending in "X" on current page and maintain (mirror) directory structure locally (to hard disk)!! The research goes on. --

Mirroring tool? web snake? getbot?

2003-07-29 Thread Peter Leftwich
many months until I found that upon each successive run of the program, it deletes the results of the last run! Stupid! Thanks for any ideas you all may have. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, C

Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
key Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li

Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming

2003-07-02 Thread Peter Leftwich
K Fuel for a mean spirited virus or shell script ;-) I say! Is xset the only thing that can make use of DPMS or is there a binary in the default / standard / minimum *BSD installation to control it too? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039

Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming

2003-07-01 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:20:38PM -0700, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > Can someone tell me what controls the dimming of my monitor after a set > > amount of minutes of idle time? It is not xscreensaver; I'm assuming it is > > som

Re: Mount My Creation [ls -c, -t -u etc]

2003-06-22 Thread Peter Leftwich
fore had just said "don't use -R" Thanks Axel S. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: Mount My Creation [ls -c, -t -u etc]

2003-06-22 Thread Peter Leftwich
iles/" listing? That is, if I type "ls -alF myfiles" (or myfiles/), why does the output delve *into* this directory and list its contents? The only work around is "ls -alF | grep myfiles" it seems! [2] What is the switch to see the full date and time output, i

Re: Mount My Creation [ls -c, -t -u etc]

2003-06-20 Thread Peter Leftwich
do with sorting. What if I wanted to see (maybe not as output from a single command but a few) the creation date, last modification date, and last access time for a directory? What are the command lines I'd use (to include "." files and NOT recursively list within a/the directory)? PS

Mount My Creation

2003-06-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
e stamp? Ponder this... Does this Leftwich guy ever shut up? :-o PS - Please CC: me in your reply! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: [SDBUG] TZ

2003-06-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Gregory Sutter wrote: > On 2003-06-18 18:04 -0700, Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I'm sitting here typing "date" over and over but she doesn't appear. :) *lament* None of my fellow nerds have quite the sense of humour

Re: TZ

2003-06-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: > man date - use date's format spec if you don't want PDT. It's the default. > -- Josh I'm not explicitly asking from a "userland" point of view, but also from a boxland :) point of view. I thought GMT would

TZ

2003-06-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
grep of PDT in /etc/* and /boot/* returns nothing relevant. I also can't remember if this is something that can be played with in userland, that is, as a postprocessor (e.g. the tcsh shell using "set" or setenv). Ideas, from any timezone? PS - Please CC: me in your reply -- Peter L

"Resetting" ports and pkg's?

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
something is always wrong and indicated by an error message. Help! Thanks CC: me please... PS - Is it as easy as just `rm -rf /var/db/pkg/` or just one directory? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA ht

Monitor dimming

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
a command line command to "dim now." Thanks all, please CC: me! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd

/var/log/wtmp and /var/log/system/log.*

2003-04-05 Thread Peter Leftwich
d have been for that "power-on session." Can someone comment on what to use for the "at" command command-line, and whether I'd put this in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/SOMETHING.sh or where? I think this is an interesting omission from Unixes in general. What's your opinion?

Re: Problems making "ogle" and "libdvdread"

2003-03-25 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Stephen Hilton wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:34:21 -0800 (PST), Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, switch the order of those. I'm trying to make or put libdvdread > > in the right place so when I run `./configure` in the o

Problems making "ogle" and "libdvdread"

2003-03-22 Thread Peter Leftwich
don't know where that request will go... Thanks everybody, please CC replies to me. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com Script started on Sat Mar 22 22:27:23 2003 Reading .cshrc file... Done reading

Re: SBC DSL vs Fbsd 4.7 PPPoE?

2003-03-04 Thread Peter Leftwich
-r" but below "cvsup" and having extraneous ports in my tree!! Tarballs are so under-rated, as are mechanisms for getting dependent libs! :( PS - Thanks again Amit, early birthday present to me!! :-) B^] -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jo

Re: Manually reinstall various lib's?

2003-02-06 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 03:23:54AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > [PLEASE CC: ME IN YOUR REPLY - THANK YOU] > > I just upgraded from 4.6.2 to 4.7 after accidentally, yes, as root, wiping > > out my /usr/local/bin/ folder with an

Manually reinstall various lib's?

2003-01-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
y accident and now "startx" and lots of different "pkg_add -rf package" commands are giving me errors about expecting different libraries. Is there a way to manually install these? Please help, you're my only hope! =) Yours, faithfully as root right now, -- Peter Leftwi

uscanner and ppbus0 webcam (Please CC me)

2003-01-13 Thread Peter Leftwich
or by the job? ballpark estimate on the total? likelihood of success?) Thank you kindly, -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Softer crash a show-interrupter only (please CC me in reply)

2003-01-06 Thread Peter Leftwich
gin works but I get no audio and interactive flash often doesn't work right or it crashes the galeon-bin binary. Java I've given up on until it's an all-in-one pkg!! > Andreas "ant" Ntaflos | "A cynic is a man who knows the price of > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Softer crash a show-interrupter only (please CC me in reply)

2003-01-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
sh command line I can run that will "tee" messages both to the console and to a file, such as `startx &2> startx.out` or something? Thx!! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com box 1743 ~ # sta

Bug, show-stopper or hardware?! (please CC me in reply)

2003-01-02 Thread Peter Leftwich
to replace the keyboard)? atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

Re: Power off problem [from Dec-08-2002]

2002-12-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
Do I still have to boot up into the bios and change a setting do you think? Thanks, and please include my email address as a To or CC. Have fine holidays! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

uscanner and ppbus0 webcam

2002-12-10 Thread Peter Leftwich
vices on ppbus0: ppbus0: MEDIA CPIA_1-20 plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 ppi0: on ppbus0 Really appreciate some leading ideas, -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [

Re: File Counts

2002-12-02 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Adam Weinberger* wrote: > >> (12.02.2002 @ 1826 PST): Peter Leftwich said, in 1.4K: << > > Here's another way I don't see listed: > > $ find . -type f | wc -l > > This means "find, starting right here, all files here and in subdir

Re: Ports base? [hear me roar Cliff]

2002-12-02 Thread Peter Leftwich
The Netherlands Space isn't really an issue after all, but the concept of not being able to hone in on one specific port is. This is not stubbornness, as my intention is for further debate about the usefulness of something a few notches above pkg_add -r and a few notches below cvsup ; make

Re: Ports base? [hear a beer opening]

2002-12-02 Thread Peter Leftwich
naway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Peter Leftwich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions LIST" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 6:07 PM > Subject: Re: Ports base? [hear me roar] > > > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL P

Re: Ports base? [hear my $500]

2002-12-02 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:53:29PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > > Why can't someone write a shell script or binary that would prompt the user with: > > > Hello,

Re: File Counts

2002-12-02 Thread Peter Leftwich
;.." > > entries. > > > > $ for dir in `find . -type d`; do echo $dir ; ls -l $dir | wc -l; done > > > > There is probably a better way to do this. > > Nathan > -- Doug -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: changing directory listing type

2002-11-26 Thread Peter Leftwich
gt; >hi - try "ls -G" or > > > > install gnuls from ports /usr/ports/misc/gnuls and and run ls --color > > > >regard > > > Easier yet, just add the following line in /etc/profile: > > > # alias ls='ls -G' > > > > > > Bes

Re: Ports base? [hear me roar]

2002-11-25 Thread Peter Leftwich
rote: > >>> On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:03:46AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: > >>>> I tried to install just the ports "base" using sysinstall but it > >>>> started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is > >>>> limit

Ports base?

2002-11-24 Thread Peter Leftwich
I tried to install just the ports "base" using sysinstall but it started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is limited. Is there a part of the handbook that explains how to do this? Or is there a single command line I can use to cvsup the ports base? I'm ove

Re: Seeking command similar to dd

2002-11-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
On 15 Nov 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there a command similar to "dd" to analyze a CD that is in the drive? > I use the "dd bs=2k" command on ISO 9660 CDs. Is there more to that command line? Or does i

Re: Power off problem

2002-11-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
x27;t there some important jumper on the board to enable powering off via software rather than having to press the button?? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Show-stopping Galeon bug!

2002-11-16 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Mike Erickson wrote: > > >> (11.12.2002 @ 2220 PST): Peter Leftwich said, in 1.3K: << > > > If you use the Galeon browser, be careful or mindful of the following bug > > > that has actually crashed *look of awe!* my system 3 or 4 times now

Searching for 'webcam' or 'cpia'

2002-11-14 Thread Peter Leftwich
d apps for either "webcam" or "cpia" there are no hits. Has anyone gotten a parallel cam working? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &quo

Seeking command similar to dd

2002-11-14 Thread Peter Leftwich
Is there a command similar to "dd" to analyze a CD that is in the drive? I used mkisofs the other day, then burncd (forgot to say "fixate" on the end of the command line though), and now I cannot mount this CD. Ideas? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Vide

Show-stopping Galeon bug!

2002-11-12 Thread Peter Leftwich
all input means such as mouse and keyboard?) I was forced to press my unit's Reset button (I waited until the mp3 finished playing due to HDD access). Has anyone else witness this or something similar with Mozilla? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services

Re: burncd creates jittery audio cd's

2002-11-12 Thread Peter Leftwich
e the burncd command I used was > successfull except for the low quality of the sound, it must mean that it > works without mkisofs?). > Thanks, > Jacob > Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 6102 > ITS DivisionEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Melbourne University Mo

Re: What is bsd.port.mk ?

2002-11-12 Thread Peter Leftwich
sing "make install clean" instead, thinking that gmake ignores my /etc/make.conf file (CPUTYPE=k7 since I have an AMD Athlon)... Well thanks for trying Adam, but I am no less confused and is any the less for work required. To. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: burncd creates jittery audio cd's

2002-11-12 Thread Peter Leftwich
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 There is a flag to "burncd" of "-s" I believe. Try matching that to your hardware's speed or slower. Also, are you using mkisofs? (As far as I know, you should be.) -- Peter Leftwich Pre

Re: man 1 eject [DaleCo]

2002-11-06 Thread Peter Leftwich
om drive Are we closer to getting to the bottom of this? I don't remember choosing to install eject manually from my original /stand/sysinstall install. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: man 1 eject [Giorgos]

2002-11-06 Thread Peter Leftwich
an -w eject /usr/local/man/cat1/eject.1.gz (source: /usr/local/man/man1/eject.1.gz) Don't know if that helps you. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: What is bsd.port.mk ?

2002-11-04 Thread Peter Leftwich
sue the following: > cvsup /path/to/supfile -i ports/Mk > cvsup /path/to/supfile -i ports/net/mutella > > If you can't/won't diagnose what's wrong when you try new things, it's best > not to invent tricks. > - -Adam > Adam Weinberger > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMA

Re: man 1 eject

2002-11-04 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Sue Blake wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:18:18AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > Hmm. Before we can improve the man page, we have to write it. Are > > > you confusing FreeBSD with

What is bsd.port.mk ?

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
find /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue What is bsd.port.mk, where can I get it or pkg_add it, then am I all set? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send

Re: man 1 eject

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Hmm. Before we can improve the man page, we have to write it. Are > you confusing FreeBSD with NetBSD? > Greg > See complete headers for address and phone numbers I don't get it. -- Peter Leftwich President & F

Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
n another post to use "tzsetup" which had a sysinstall-like interface. The manpage for tzsetup pointed me to /etc/localtime which, when viewed in the "more" viewer, had PST near the end so I'm assuming I'm setup okay now. But I wonder why there is no unix standard com

mount transparently?

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
convert filename.tgz to filename.iso Am I asking too much and at too many levels down? =) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions&quo

man 1 eject

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
h as /dev/acd1c, and instead using "eject acd1" for example. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

ld-elf.so.1 error

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
fix?? For example, is there some trusted place I can simply download libXaw3d.so.7 to "trick" emacs into working properly? Hope I can fix this! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail t

Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
> ntpd running and it changed immediately after 2am. > Kent > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html The way I understand it, ntpd runs constantly, keeping your PC's clock accurate, whereas ntpdate is often called once via a cron or at boot time.

ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

2002-10-28 Thread Peter Leftwich
e_flags="-b clock.isc.org" # Flags to ntpdate (if enabled). My clock still says it is 20:11 PM when it is really 19:11 PM right now! Am I missing something, or needing to set the CMOS/motherboard clock...? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13

Re: Port 514 unsafe? open to outside?

2002-10-26 Thread Peter Leftwich
Kinsey To receive incoming email, sent for example to root@[my.ip.here] don't you need MX records and qualified/registered domain name info?? I haven't been able to send email to myself yet :( -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

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