Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread vayu
On Jun 30, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Rico Secada wrote: On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:40:09 +0100 "Joao Barros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/30/06, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD

Re: Stale Dependencies ??????

2006-06-24 Thread vayu
On Jun 24, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:27, Robert Davison wrote: I've recently had a few problems with KDE 3.5.1, so recently upgraded to 3.5.3 via the ports. I have a port upgrade script which is producing the following output when executed. Stale

Re: kde-3.5.3 screensaver

2006-06-08 Thread vayu
On Jun 8, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Chris Howells wrote: On Thursday 08 June 2006 17:14, dick hoogendijk wrote: Anybody experience the same as I do? After upgrading to the latest kde (from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3) the screensaver within kde stopped working. Yes, it's broke. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi

Re: building xgl

2006-06-04 Thread vayu
On Jun 4, 2006, at 6:38 AM, Jim Stapleton wrote: On 6/4/06, Jim Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have experience building XGL on Freebsd? It has Makefile.am files, but no other files needed for automake (such as configure.ac/configure.in). Does anyone know where I can find t

XGL / compiz

2006-05-29 Thread vayu
Anyone know how to get these working on FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread vayu
On May 25, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: James, you missed the point. If you have an Intel MAC it came with MacOS X (tiger) and that is basically the same operating system as FreeBSD. Meaning, what are you trying to gain? If anything, your worse off with FreeBSD since MacOS X co

Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-15 Thread vayu
On May 15, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 5/15/06, vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 15, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't > like, I don't want to run windows on

Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-15 Thread vayu
On May 15, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't like, I don't want to run windows on this box... so I'm looking for a Linux distro that has a ports like system. I need KDE, X.org, and a 2.6 kernel installed by default...

Re: Improving kde perfomance...

2006-04-15 Thread Vayu
On Saturday 15 April 2006 10:14, Paulino Calderon wrote: > Hey folks, Ive been googling about howto improve kde perfomance, i ve always > used fluxbox as my wm but recently I got a new laptop, it has a 3.2 ghz > processor, 1 gb of ram, and an ati mobility radeon x600 wiith 256 mb of > video meomry

Re: Wanted: Flash player for ....

2006-04-12 Thread Vayu
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:20, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 4/12/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:11:12PM -0400, Andy Reitz wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Ashley Moran wrote: > > > > > > > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:15, you wrote: > > > > > I forwarded

Re: Keypad no longer works under X

2006-04-06 Thread Vayu
On Thursday 06 April 2006 19:47, Donald T Hayford wrote: > My numeric keypad no longer works under X Since when? > except as a way to move the > mouse cursor (i.e., no 1-9, etc). The LED changes states when pushed. > I've searched through the X.org site but haven't found anything of use.

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-03 Thread Vayu
On Monday 03 April 2006 22:17, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : On Monday 03 April 2006 12:27, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten > :

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-03 Thread Vayu
On Monday 03 April 2006 12:27, M. Warner Losh wrote: > OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten > borderless printing working, alas. > > The key points I learned: > > (1) Install print/cups. > (2) Install graphics/hpijs. This filters .ps -> goo the printer groks > (3) Insta

Re: Firefox 1.5 getting downright irritating

2006-04-03 Thread Vayu
On Monday 03 April 2006 08:49, Paul Schmehl wrote: > Does anyone know how to get Firefox 1.5 to *always* start with the > ProfileManager? I'm using KDE 3.5, FreeBSD 6.0, Xorg 6.9.0 and Firefox > 1.5. I've created an application starter on the menubar that has the path > to firefox (/usr/X11R6/

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Vayu
On Saturday 25 March 2006 06:36, Tim wrote: > Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I > am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like > a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a > nitemare if you have never done

Samba shares and logging in

2006-03-22 Thread Vayu
In windows when I have the same user account on two machines, neither needs to login to access the share. With Samba I have to use the username/password. The XP machine can get straight into the FreeBSD machine (which has the same username and password) but the FreeBSD machine needs to login t

Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer?

2006-03-20 Thread Vayu
On Monday 20 March 2006 20:04, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > > > When I log out and select "Turn off the computer" it shuts > > down the system and leaves the machinery running, displaying > > this message: > > > > "The operating system has halted. > > Please press any key to r

Set path for kspell/ispell???

2006-03-17 Thread Vayu
I'm getting a message that ispell/aspell could not be started please check your path. Locate turns up ispell in the following places: /usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/ispell /usr/local/lib/kde3/kspell_ispell.la /usr/local/lib/kde3/kspell_ispell.so /usr/local/share/services/kspell_ispell.desktop Any

Re: New logo, new look

2006-03-06 Thread Vayu
On Monday 06 March 2006 13:01, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Ceri Davies wrote: > it better ... I understand the argument for a 'new logo', but, quite > frankly, after looking at the new one, I'm surprised the same arguments > (being associated with a demon) isn't still being made,

Re: Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

2006-03-02 Thread Vayu
On Thursday 02 March 2006 15:57, Micah wrote: > I'm looking for a card to handle some simple OpenGL stuff for a class > I'm taking. I have an ATI X300 card, but 3D acceleration is not > supported on it in the current Xorg. The only slots on my Mobo are PCI > and PCI-EX. I use the i386 release of

Why did this work? (Flashplugin)

2006-02-22 Thread Vayu
I installed linuxpluginwrapper, linux-flashplugin-6 and linux_base-8 through ports. No errors. Created a libmap.conf with values appropriate for 6.0REL. I followed the same procedure that I did 3 weeks ago that successfully got flash playing in Konqueror on another FreeBSD 6.0REL machine.

Post install help

2006-01-19 Thread Vayu
I just did my first install, so far so good. I've got KDE running. I know how to play around with xorg.conf and got my screen resolution matching my monitor. My network is working to the router. Now I would like to get my graphics and sound cards working. Where can I find out about getting