Re: Hi BSD -

2013-04-07 Thread Rod Person
On 04/07/13 15:34, Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: > Hi BSD - > > I know on my websites that more worrisome than someone caught reading > my poetry as their own is that they have told something is mine that > is not. > > I was thinking about putting the ports tar on my BSD 10 when I was > actually

Re: Disable monitor recording source

2013-01-24 Thread Rod Person
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:38:58 +0100 David Demelier wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to record only from mic but I can't remove monitor from > recording : > > markand@Melon ~ $ cat /dev/sndstat > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) > Installed devices: > pcm0: (play) > pcm1: (

Re: somewhat OT ... in parts

2013-01-03 Thread Rod Person
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 08:58:23 -0800 Devin Teske wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2013, at 5:44 AM, Rod Person wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:53:05 -0800 > > Gary Kline wrote: > >> > >>thanks in advance for a few url's. > >> > > > &

Re: somewhat OT ... in parts

2013-01-03 Thread Rod Person
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:53:05 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > > thanks in advance for a few url's. > I love this color scheme, I use it for everything. There is a vim specific version...http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized -- Just because it can been done, does not mean it should be done. __

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread Rod Person
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:25:59 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:53:26 -0500, mike miskulin wrote: > > But I guess the basic question remains - are there any > > considerations in regards ports, linux emulation, etc that would > > sway me to remain i386? > > The only problem might b

Fw: i3 window manager 4.3 Build error on FreeBSD

2012-10-21 Thread Rod Person
Sorry, I thought the list was included by the responder Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:05:01 +0200 From: "Herbert J. Skuhra" To: Rod Person Cc: d...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i3 window manager 4.3 Build error on FreeBSD On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:24:43 -0400 Rod Per

Re: i3 window manager 4.3 Build error on FreeBSD

2012-10-21 Thread Rod Person
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:35:59 +0200 David Demelier wrote: > On 19/10/2012 01:24, Rod Person wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to build the latest version of i3 on FreeBSD since the > > port has not been updated yet, and I get the following error when >

i3 window manager 4.3 Build error on FreeBSD

2012-10-18 Thread Rod Person
Hello, I'm trying to build the latest version of i3 on FreeBSD since the port has not been updated yet, and I get the following error when building. [i3] YACC src/cfgparse.y [i3] CC src/cfgparse.tab.c [i3] LEX src/cfgparse.l flex: can't open src/cfgparse.yy.c gmake: *** [src/cfgparse.yy.c] Error

Re: Port update hosed entire system

2012-10-02 Thread Rod Person
Oct 2012 09:16:43 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:20:45 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > > > It would never have occured to me that updating a port that > > > has to do with audio and video containers would totally leave me > > > unable to

Re: Port update hosed entire system

2012-10-01 Thread Rod Person
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 08:02:54 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 20:08:29 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I was attempting to update ports that used libogg with the command > > > > portmaster -d -y -r libogg > > > > I went

Re: Port update hosed entire system

2012-10-01 Thread Rod Person
t try that yet, because I don't want to be left with no way to login at all if something is really messed up. Since I could not even switch to a no console (ctrl+alt+f2...) and login I'm not really wanting to reboot at this point. -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com "Fi

Re: Port update hosed entire system

2012-10-01 Thread Rod Person
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:47:51 +0700 Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Can you run /bin/sh? That would be a start to try reinstalling what > was lost. > > Good luck, > > Olivier Nope. $ /bin/sh Segmentation fault (core dumped) -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com &qu

Port update hosed entire system

2012-09-30 Thread Rod Person
appreciated. -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com "First we got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we lower that by perhaps 10 or

Strange dmesg entry, MCA

2012-06-04 Thread Rod Person
MCA: Vendor "AuthenticAMD", ID 0x20f12, APIC ID 1 MCA: CPU 1 COR OVER BUSLG Source PREFETCH Memory -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com rodper...@rodperson.com "Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity, go on sending all the slaves that can be sold." - Letter

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-05 Thread Rod Person
cial OS, and I have no money to spend on it, and I get the > server for free to play with. So BSD will be fine. The hobby license is free. You just need the media, which I think sells for around 30 - 50 bucks when it pops up on Ebay. Not sure if the Hobbyist still sell media. -- Rod Person

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-27 Thread Rod Person
d not be too hard just time consuming. The only reason I stopped working on this was I moved from using OpenBox to using the i3 window manager. I can check around and see if I still have any thing I worked on laying around but I'm not sure about that...I changed hard disks since the

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Rod Person
ith FreeBSD I hope I shall > be able to contribute something in return. How many of the screenlets actually work? When I was working on this I found that a number of them where too linux specific to work. I have a screenshot of the sticky note and weather working but that's about all I can

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Rod Person
named > something like py27-wnck, but am unable to trace any such. > > Can anyone point me in the right direction please? It's been a year or two since I tried to get screenlets running, but as I recall you need to get python wnck module yourself. libwnck is in the ports which i

Re: Convert mp3 to audio CD

2012-03-21 Thread Rod Person
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:16:24 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:07:40 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:10:16 -0400 > > Steve Bertrand wrote: > > > > > I know this is a backwards request, as I haven't had to go from > >

Re: Convert mp3 to audio CD

2012-03-21 Thread Rod Person
convert a directory full of mp3s #!/bin/sh for a in * do OUTF=`echo "$a" | sed s/\.mp3/.wav/g` lame --decode -q 0 "$a" "$OUTF" done -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com rodper...@rodperson.com 'Silence is a fence around wisdom' _

Re: nVidia card manufacturer recommendations

2012-03-14 Thread Rod Person
X and PNY without problem with the nvidia driver in the past. I'm currently using a FX1700 Quadro that came from an HP machine, it works without issue also, but I have not used any of the HP bios updates for it. -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com rodper...@rodperson.com 'Silen

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Rod Person
at I'd You are either stealing my thoughts or are my long lost twin. Either way, no matter what you post from now on you are a genius in my book! -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com rodper...@rodperson.com 'Silence is a fence around wisdom' __

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-07 Thread Rod Person
orked on both languages, but keep that > in mind. I can present my evidence of how Guido doesn't get it in a > longer post, if prompted. > I'll second the motion for this evidence. -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com rodper...@rodperson.com 'Silence is a fence arou

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-06 Thread Rod Person
that ran on both FreeBSD and Windows. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/editors/lazarus/pkg-descr -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com rodper...@rodperson.com "Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity, go on sending all the slaves that can be sold." - Letter from Ch

Re: umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-07 Thread Rod Person
FS"; match "type""DESTROY"; match "cdev""da[0-9]*"; action "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/usb_device_action umount '/dev/$cdev'"; }; The action line is what you want it to do, in my case I have this s

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Rod Person
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:16:50 -0500 Jon Radel wrote: > > On 11/17/11 9:02 AM, Rod Person wrote: > > > > > As someone that has been stop because of how I look and where I > > live, I find the 'only those that break laws have reason to fear > > them argumen

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Rod Person
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:38:49 -0500 Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:00:04 -0500 > Rod Person articulated: > > > > Theft is theft no matter how a socialist/fascist tries to color > > > it. > > > > > > > So what you are saying then is that

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Rod Person
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:55:02 -0500 Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:28:57 -0300 > Mario Lobo articulated: > > > Aren't there enough laws already to protect copyright? > > Laws to protect copyrighted or patented goods certainly exist. > Unfortunately, they are poorly enforced. There is no u

Re: Help with devd.conf

2011-10-02 Thread Rod Person
hen my devd.conf entries did work. Thanks for the scripts though I will use them as I working on auto-mounting devices using glabels. I'm having an issue with device names that have spaces in the label...in this case a manufacturers default name on an mp3 device. -- Rod Person http://www.ro

Re: Help with devd.conf

2011-09-24 Thread Rod Person
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:50:35 +0100 Mike Clarke wrote: > On Saturday 24 September 2011, Rod Person wrote: > > > I'm trying to understand devd.conf to auto mount usb devices. For > > example I have a usb drive that will show up as da1 so as a test I > > just want to w

Help with devd.conf

2011-09-24 Thread Rod Person
ried different priorities and that doesn't make a difference. I have also tried using attach instead of notify and that seems to trigger something, but then I get an error message: SCSI sense: UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (Not ready to ready change, medium m

Re: Printing from Opera

2011-08-24 Thread Rod Person
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:54:01 -0400 Rod Person wrote: > On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:09:40 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > > > > Which version of Opera are you using? I have 11.50/1047 > > installed; the page you refered to states: > > I have 10.x and Opera-Next installed.

Re: Printing from Opera

2011-08-24 Thread Rod Person
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:09:40 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > > Which version of Opera are you using? I have 11.50/1047 > installed; the page you refered to states: I have 10.x and Opera-Next installed. > If you are having problems printing, try adding > a custom printer under the "Options

Re: Printing from Opera

2011-08-24 Thread Rod Person
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:58:41 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > My question to the list now: > > Did anybody get Opera working with CUPS or (better) > without it? Maybe did I miss something important at > installation time? > I've been printing from Opera using this method http://www.opera.com/support/k

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Rod Person
f the ancient past for me 30 years - on > a TRS-80). Ah, I remember those days, but FreeBSD's is not based on DOS, it based on Unix. If you want to relive DOS I'd suggest try FreeDOS http://www.freedos.org/ -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com "It is a riddle

Re: extracting text from docx files

2011-08-09 Thread Rod Person
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 14:36:32 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Usually I unzip a docx and then search > through all *xml files to find the > useful data. However, I can't find any > xml styles to use, so I have to convert > the relevant xml file(s) to plain text > by hand. I wonder if anybody can

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-06 Thread Rod Person
ature. > > That, and it has a better license than OpenBox. I'll agree that Fluxbox license is better. But I find OpenBox more responsive and it seem to just look better to me. I'm not a fan of tabbing so that doesn't matter to me. I've been using Openbox as my WM for 4 or

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Rod Person
re there any other window manager worth looking? > > What is your window manager? If you like Fluxbox you might want to try OpenBox. -- Rod Person ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: 4.5.4 Upgrading Ports (Handbook)

2010-10-22 Thread Rod Person
At 10:41 AM 10/22/2010, Justin Victoria wrote: hbca# pkgdb -F ---> Checking the package registry database Stale origin: 'net/samba3': perhaps moved or obsoleted. -> The port 'net/samba3' was removed on 2010-10-18 because: "Has expired: Unsupported by the upstream. Please, consider to up

Re: Forged messages being posted to freebsd-questions

2010-08-19 Thread Rod Person
At 08:31 AM 08/19/2010, Ian Smith wrote: > Can someone please take care of this. Its getting to be quite annoying. Indeed. That's because noone had forwarded copies with complete headers to postmas...@freebsd.org, who I bet hasn't the spare time to browse a fraction of the freebsd lists (let a

Re: Installing wget

2010-08-09 Thread Rod Person
At 02:20 PM 08/09/2010, Jerry McAllister wrote: How do I get rid of that. I have done make clean, make diskclean and deleted as many files as I dared, but it still won't build and install wget. Of course, there is some file I don't know about. Can someone point me to where to find it? Did you

Re: which utility do i use to burn some [two] of my cd's?

2010-05-20 Thread Rod Person
t; freebsd? > Try grip if you want a GUI. It will rip all or some tracks and encode to mp3 and flac. -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you have schizophrenia. -Thomas Szasz ___ freebsd-quest

Re: How To create msdosfs on HD?

2010-04-29 Thread Rod Person
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 wrote: I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command

Re: OT: Goodbye and hosting wanted

2010-04-21 Thread Rod Person
s for hosting services. http://www.pairlite.com/ not sure about the flickr stuff but it 100 a year PHP and all that and it hosted on FreeBSD. Good luck. -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com "Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the b

Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)

2010-02-23 Thread Rod Person
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:23:44 -0500, Leslie Jensen wrote: Angelin Lalev skrev 2010-02-23 13:20: Well, Windows 7 isn't playing nicely with FreeBSD (and some other OS systems). I have my first primary partition (MBR scheme) installed with Windows 7 and I want to have FreeBSD as second primary

Re: fpc on FreeBSD?

2009-12-29 Thread Rod Person
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:16:29 -0500, Eduardo Morras wrote: Is fpc's IDE usable, like good ol' TP6 and 7, never mind Delphi? Docs seem vast, I'm wondering if there's a simple guide to basic compilation, but basically I'd just like to hear that it's working ok for someone and is worth the learnin

Re: the "Opera" broswer?

2009-12-22 Thread Rod Person
as this capability. > > Anybody know off hand? > > gary > The Option for the Voice isn't present like in the Windows version. The tutorials on the Opera site also says you need Windows. -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com What luck for rulers

Re: how to add OpenOffice binaries in FreebSD7.2

2009-11-27 Thread Rod Person
Am Freitag, den 27.11.2009, 07:37 + schrieb dhaneshk k: I need to install openoffice in my FreeBSD7.2 laptop (IBMT60 coreduo) , without doing a port installation how can I do it with package addition pkg_add -r what_the_name_of_openoffice_package I need to supply in # pkg_

Re: FreeBSD && remote MS ACCESS database

2009-11-10 Thread Rod Person
=;" % (fileName) I've not tried it over an internet connection, though. -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -Napoleon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: Tyan Motherboard

2008-03-11 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:43:26 -0700 (PDT) Mark Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking to build a new server, looking for a dual amd 940 board with > sata II support. I have googled, but still looking for a firm success > before spending the money.

Re: Having problems burning a DVD

2007-11-24 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:22:22 -0700 "Andrew Falanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > copy of the disk, "cp /dev/acd0 /path/to/*.iso." Does this actually work in creating a valid iso image?? >growisofs -Z /dev/acd0 -dvd-video /usr/local/dvds/whereisGod1.i

Re: Does anyone know how to get the required downloads from Sun to build Java?

2007-11-24 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:28:22 -0800 Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you try to build any of the ports they supply you with a URL and > the files you need to get the source. For most of them, you need an > account that you have to login to

Re: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-11-07 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:19:28 -0500 "Philip M. Gollucci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rod Person wrote: > > /usr/bin/ld cannot find -lgcc_s > ls /lib/gcc* > > You should have: > ls libgcc* > -r--r--r-- 1 r

Re: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-11-06 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:31:39 -0800 "Josh Carroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables > > > > I googled for awhile and found the suggestion to reinstall libtool, > > but that also fails with the same e

Re: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-11-06 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:01:26 -0500 Steve Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rod Person wrote: > > I seem to have really hosed up my system somehow and I'm not sure > > what I did. I'm running FreeBSD 7 Beta 1 i386.

C compiler cannot create executables

2007-11-06 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I seem to have really hosed up my system somehow and I'm not sure what I did. I'm running FreeBSD 7 Beta 1 i386. I was going to upgrade to Beta 2, but when ever I compile anything it fails and the last line is always: configure: error: C compiler can

Re: Is there a way to compare what is in the ports tree with what is installed?

2007-11-05 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:57:19 -0600 Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after i update my ports, and i want to see what currently needs to be > updated: > > pkg_version -v|grep needs > > this will give you a run down of everything that has a n

Re: SoftMaker missing from ports for any version.

2007-09-23 Thread Rod Person
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 15:22 -1000, NetOpsCenter wrote: > Aloha, > > Ports seems broken to download SoftMaker. > Also cant download from the SoftMaker website either. > Is this a viable program or dead? Anybody know or ever used this? > I use SoftMaker Office, I bought a license for it late last

Re: Network Printing recommendations please

2007-03-08 Thread Rod Person
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 21:27:57 - "Andy Kendall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The printers I have are a bullet-proof classic/HPLJ4 with internal > JetDirect card, and a new HPDeskjet 6980 (colour inkjet). > > Unless someone can come up with a good reason to use X-Windows I > don't know if I want

Re: Easy USB-drive automounter and "filemanager" for nontechies?

2007-02-01 Thread Rod Person
On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:52:27 -0500 Chris Shenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for something like she'd get on a Mac or PC: > > 1. a way to automount the USB 'drive' when she plugs in > 2. a visual filemanager or some other friendly way for her to see >files and copy them off so

Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)

2006-11-10 Thread Rod Person
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 11:07 +0100, Tore Lund wrote: > Another reason to use it is monitor calibration. To add to that, I have a wide screen monitor that runs at 1680x1040 but the xorg driver will not run at that resolution. -- Rod "it takes an unusual mind to see the obvious." - Alfred Whiteh

Re: Nvidia on CURRENT...

2006-10-28 Thread Rod Person
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 21:59 +0200, Anders Troback wrote: > Is there anyone out there how can verify that the nvidia-driver are > working on current? > I've been running the nvidia driver on CURRENT since Feb with no problems. -- Rod "it takes an unusual mind to see the obvious." - Alfred White

Re: wxGlade error

2006-10-10 Thread Rod Person
e, > and try importing the package from within the > interpreter, i.e. typing "from wxPython.wx import *"? > Does it load the module? > > --- Rod Person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I try to run wxGlade on FreeBSD 7 Current I get > > the foll

wxGlade error

2006-10-09 Thread Rod Person
When I try to run wxGlade on FreeBSD 7 Current I get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wxglade/wxglade.py", line 148, in ? run_main() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wxglade/wxglade.py", line 135, in run_main

Re: CUPS - Does not function anymore

2006-08-14 Thread Rod Person
On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 23:07 -0700, Sean M. wrote: > The story so far: > I had cups-1.2.2 and couldn't get KDE to use it with my HP PSC 1400 and > hplip. I read somewhere that KDE was only reliable with cups 1.1, so I > downgraded CUPS to the last version before it was switched to 1.2.0. > That ende

Re: adjkerntz[]: sysctl(get_offset): No such file or directory

2006-06-18 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 18 June 2006 11:01 am, Andrey Slusar wrote: > Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:50:03 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > > On Sunday 18 June 2006 8:28 am, Rod Person wrote: > > > Machine is an AMD Dual Opteron 246 running FreeBSD 6.1 Stable i

Re: adjkerntz[]: sysctl(get_offset): No such file or directory

2006-06-18 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 18 June 2006 8:28 am, Rod Person wrote: > Machine is an AMD Dual Opteron 246 running FreeBSD 6.1 Stable i386. Sorry, It's FreeBSD 7.0 Current i386 - it's a dual boot and I got confused :) - -- Rod Person http://www.opensource

adjkerntz[]: sysctl(get_offset): No such file or directory

2006-06-18 Thread Rod Person
w what this means and why it's happening. Google hasn't produced anything meaningful in this area. Just wondering if anyone out there knows. Machine is an AMD Dual Opteron 246 running FreeBSD 6.1 Stable i386. - -- Rod Person http://www.opensourcebeef.net http://blog.opensourcebeef.n

Re: Playstation emulator

2006-06-11 Thread Rod Person
- > > It loads up after doing that, but all I get is a black screen (with a > CD or ISO) so it does not work for me. > I haven't used this in a few years but you need a bios or all you get is a black screen. I used to play Tenchu on it. - -- Rod Person http

Re: Video mode not supported for LCD monitor

2006-05-21 Thread rod person
On Mon, 22 May 2006 10:36:17 +1000 Malcolm Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just replaced my trusty CRT screen with a spunky LCD screen. > After the machine boots I don't see the login window. Instead I see a > bouncing box that says "Video Mode not Supported". How do I rectify > thi

Re: StarOffice inmstallation in FreeBSD 6.0

2006-05-14 Thread rod person
There is a port for staroffice 5.2, I believe. You'd place the staroffice bin file in the distfiles directory and make install the port. It should work. That's how I installed Staroffice 5.2, I'm currently running Staroffice 7 and used the port to install it from the Staroffice CD. -- Rod http

Re: Problems with SCSI

2006-03-04 Thread Rod Person
not enabled. I believe you said that you did enable it in your bios. well, Good Luck! -- Rod Person http://www.opensourcebeef.net http://blog.opensourcebeef.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Problems with SCSI

2006-03-04 Thread Rod Person
ection. I'd look into the SCSI adapter setting which are seperate from the BIOS, mine is accessed by CTRL+C. Do you see SCSI adapter messages after the BIOS Post and before the FreeBSD boot process? -- Rod Person http://www.opensourcebeef.net http://blog.op

Re: Problems with SCSI

2006-03-04 Thread Rod Person
ork as long as you load the if_nve kernel module. HTH -- Rod Person http://www.opensourcebeef.net http://blog.opensourcebeef.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread rod person
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST) Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't expect you to care, but saying you > "prefer FreeBSD" and saying "FreeBSD is better" > are different animals. I just wanted to know what > you could do with FreeBSD that you can't do with > Windows. I alrea

Re: umass detected, but da is never created

2005-12-24 Thread rod person
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:52:21 +0800 "Russell J. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:48:10AM +0100, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: > > I have this external harddisk kit, and when I plug it in, the > > system correctly recognizes it as a umass.. but afterwards, the da > > devic

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread rod person
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:45:04 +0200 Björn König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:04:22 +0200, rod person > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:50:22 -0400 > > Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread rod person
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:50:22 -0400 Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know. If there is an easy way to find out on my installation, > let me know and I will post the result. I assume you guys are talking about the Toolbar fonts. I've used Opera since 5.x and I'm pretty sure ther

Re: Konfabulator widget knockoffs?

2005-09-19 Thread rod person
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:51:04 -0400 Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yup. That looks like them. At least the ones I can get running. > None of which were the ones I wanted, and all of which appear to suck > my RAM usage to 1G in about 30 seconds. > > Maybe it's because I'm running Fvwm

Re: Konfabulator widget knockoffs?

2005-09-18 Thread rod person
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:41:02 -0400 Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Crazy question here maybe, but I'm pretty fascinated by the > Konfabulator and MacOS X widgets that are becoming more and more > popular. Very cool little clients. The "what to do" widget is just > great, and there's t

Konica Minolta 2430DL CUPS printing problem

2005-08-28 Thread rod person
Has anyone been successful in get this printer to print using CUPS, or anything else for that matter. I've been trying to get it to work for over a month now. The closest I can get is to get the error "Loading Halftones Error..." when trying to print a test page from the cups web interface. This

ATA drive locking FreeBSD 5.4 system

2005-06-25 Thread Rod Person
I just add a 160GB ATA133 drive to my system. On this system I have an IDE DVD burner on IDE channel 1. The 160GB drive is on IDE channel 2. When ever I try to copy any data from the DVD drive to the 160GB hard drive the system locks up. All I can do is a hard reboot. I have the follow sysctl i

Re: NVIDIA Driver on 5.4 RC3

2005-05-10 Thread Rod Person
On Tue, 10 May 2005 12:24:30 -0400, Joseph Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've got an NVIDIA TNT2 and I'm trying to install NVIDIA's driver on the AMD 64 Release of 5.4 RC3. The driver I'm trying to install is: NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-7174.tar.gz. When I try to install it, make stops with an

Re: Plextor PX-716a supported by burncd ?

2005-05-06 Thread Rod Person
On Fri, 06 May 2005 09:23:02 -0400, Ilia Chipitsine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Sirs, I'm having problems with making that device work (FreeBSD-5.3R) with burncd. Is it unsupported or am I doing something wrong ? I've got this device. What's your specific problem. It works great for me.

Re: What is the best use for this stuff?

2005-05-06 Thread Rod Person
On Thu, 05 May 2005 18:18:43 -0400, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This machine is currently unused - my wife got tired of a PC in every room... :) I feel your pain! We have a computer in every room but the Kitchen & Living Room. That's 6 computer (I have 3 in my bedroom). Then I have a basement wi

Re: k3b dvd-image burning fails.

2005-03-29 Thread Rod Person
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 2:43 pm, Perttu Laine wrote: > I have trouble burning dvd-r images to dvd+r discs on freebsd 5.4. > > Allmost 50% of burns are failing with same error. (same images works > sometimes and sometimes not). on windows I have never trouble (no > single bad burn with same compute

Re: Kylix or libborqt

2005-03-18 Thread Rod Person
On Thursday 17 March 2005 3:40 pm, John wrote: > Hey, folks! > My problem is that, of course, it is only compiled for MS-Windows > and Linux. That's OK, I have Linux compatibility installed so that > I can run acroread. What makes matters worse is that it was built > using something called Kylix

Re: Getting a microphone to work

2005-02-03 Thread Rod Person
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 9:05 pm, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > Actually, it's not a complete speak-2-text solution I'm aiming for, just > being able to shout "NEXT" and it will perform some action. There will be 3 > or four of those commands. Not more. I don't even know what a microphone > device

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread Rod Person
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 5:58 pm, Gert Cuykens wrote: > i want a screensaver but the ... xscreensaver daemon wont start > complaining about acces controle. I did xhost +localhost but it still > wont start :( Sounds like your trying to run the screensaver from a root terminal in a normal

Re: problems running k3b in fluxbox with sudo

2005-02-02 Thread Rod Person
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 2:35 am, Brian John wrote: > > Sorry, I should have been more clear. I have 'dvd+rw-tools' installed, > and it works in kde. I just can't get it to work in fluxbox because of > this one problem. The difference is I am starting it through the kde > menu in kde and I'

Re: Video Capture, TV tuner devices

2005-02-02 Thread Rod Person
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 10:03 pm, Thomas Foster wrote: > You can get the Hauppauge PVR drivers running, though its a manual job... > > http://mythtv.son.org/tiki-index.php?page=Multimedia+Drivers > > hope this helps.. Thanks. I had looked at that card but crossed it off figuring it wouldn't w

Re: way to run application as root in fluxbox menu

2005-02-01 Thread Rod Person
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 7:33 pm, Brian John wrote: > Hello, I want to be able to add k3b to my menu in fluxbox. However, it > has to be run as root and I'm not sure how to do that. Is there a way > that I could get k3b to automatically run as root in fluxbox? It is ok if > I have to enter my

Re: Video Capture, TV tuner devices

2005-02-01 Thread Rod Person
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 6:23 pm, Roland Smith wrote: > AFAICT, the only video driver in the kernel is the 'bktr' driver, which > supports cards based on the bt848/bt848a/bt849a/bt878/bt879 chipset. See > paragraph 7.5 of the Handbook. Yes, I've read that. I have found a Linux site that has an

Video Capture, TV tuner devices

2005-02-01 Thread Rod Person
I'm looking into getting a video capture of TV Tuner device for my PC. Does anyone have any experience with Plextor ConvertX PVR devices? They are usb and that makes me a little shy in the purchase of one. My other choice would be eVGA's NVTV, but I'm not sure if it will work will FreeBSD. I'm

Re: commercial OSS drivers

2005-01-28 Thread Rod Person
On Friday 28 January 2005 6:18 am, Gert Cuykens wrote: > Does free bsd use this drivers http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi ? > > Anyway they give you surround 5.1 and spdif / AC3, they are free for > home use but they told me they can not give me support using them. > > Who of you is using them

Re: making music

2005-01-26 Thread Rod Person
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 7:59 am, Gert Cuykens wrote: > Does freebsd has programs to make music ? like sonar or logic or > fruityloops ? ___ I just found aube in the ports. It seems to be like AudoMulch or Fruityloops. I just installed it last night

[INFO]Nvidia Driver information

2005-01-20 Thread Rod Person
For the people with nvidia graphic cards some information on somethings that I have noticed. I have a Elsa Gloria II which is based on the RIVA/TNT II chip set by Nvidia. The Nvidia driver works fine for me except in the following conditions. 1) I had a PCI usb card that I placed in the machine

Re: File System mounting prob

2005-01-12 Thread Rod Person
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 6:20 pm, Emon wrote: > Is there any way to mount a filesystem, as a generel user? so > that everytime I put a cd in the CD player I dont have to su to > root just to mount it! > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html > > I can't find kppp(the

GTK error with SciTE.

2005-01-07 Thread Rod Person
I'm trying to use SciTE and when ever I start it I get the following error... I've tried this on 2 seperate FBSD machines one running 5.3 release and the other running a 5.3 rc 2 (I think). Both get the same error. I been trying to figure this out for sometime and can't seem to find anything abou

Python Error, help

2004-12-23 Thread Rod Person
I'm trying to teach myself python. I installed py-ui package and I'm trying to run this example script: import pyui def onPress(button): print "the button was pressed" pyui.init(320,320,"gl") newFrame = pyui.widgets.Frame(10, 10, 200, 200, "hello world!") newFrame.setLayout(pyui.layouts.Gr

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