Task bar missed when creating PC-BSD release 9.1 64 bit VM in VMware Workstation Version 98.02 build-1031769

2013-05-20 Thread Chou, David J
Hi, I am trying to create a virtual machine of PC-BSD release 9.1 64 bit in VMware Workstation Version 98.02 build-1031769 based on PCBSD9.1-x64-DVD.iso downloaded from ftp://mirrors.isc.org/pub/pcbsd/9.1/amd64/PCBSD9.1-x64-DVD.iso in Windows 7 64 bits system. The screen resolution is

Re: PC-BSD 9.0 in VirtualBox

2012-09-28 Thread dweimer
On 2012-09-28 12:06, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Mike Jeays wrote: I have been running PC-BSD 9.0 with the KDE interface in a VirtualBox VM, and notice that it uses CPU resources when idle, driving up my CPU temperature about 15 degrees on an otherwise idle machine. (It is an

Re: PC-BSD 9.0 in VirtualBox

2012-09-28 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Mike Jeays wrote: I have been running PC-BSD 9.0 with the KDE interface in a VirtualBox VM, and notice that it uses CPU resources when idle, driving up my CPU temperature about 15 degrees on an otherwise idle machine. (It is an Intel i5 quad four). Is this to be expected

Re: PC-BSD 9.0 in VirtualBox

2012-09-28 Thread dweimer
On 2012-09-28 07:03, Rares Aioanei wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:56:42 -0400 Mike Jeays wrote: I have been running PC-BSD 9.0 with the KDE interface in a VirtualBox VM, and notice that it uses CPU resources when idle, driving up my CPU temperature about 15 degrees on an otherwise idle

Re: PC-BSD 9.0 in VirtualBox

2012-09-28 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:56:42 -0400 Mike Jeays wrote: > I have been running PC-BSD 9.0 with the KDE interface in a VirtualBox > VM, and notice that it uses CPU resources when idle, driving up my > CPU temperature about 15 degrees on an otherwise idle machine. (It is > an Intel i5 qu

Re: PC-BSD 9.0 in VirtualBox

2012-09-28 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Mike Jeays wrote on Thu 27.Sep'12 at 22:56:42 -0400 ] > I have been running PC-BSD 9.0 with the KDE interface in a VirtualBox VM, and > notice that it uses CPU resources when idle, driving up my CPU temperature > about 15 degrees on an otherwise idle machine. (It is an Inte

PC-BSD 9.0 in VirtualBox

2012-09-27 Thread Mike Jeays
I have been running PC-BSD 9.0 with the KDE interface in a VirtualBox VM, and notice that it uses CPU resources when idle, driving up my CPU temperature about 15 degrees on an otherwise idle machine. (It is an Intel i5 quad four). Is this to be expected

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
quite > impressive. Also, the support page URL for PC-BSD: > <http://www.ixsystems.com/quote-request> is now apparently working. Ah -- no. The page I was referring to is: http://www.ixsystems.com/ix/support/software/pc-bsd-support which is still 404. It's linked to from here: http

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:52:15 + Matthew Seaman articulated: > On 04/03/2012 22:56, Da Rock wrote: > >> That's also an obligation to test it. > >> PC-BSD is a product, by a private company. The burden of proof is > >> on them. > > > PC-BSD is an or

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Da Rock
On 03/05/12 19:52, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/03/2012 22:56, Da Rock wrote: That's also an obligation to test it. PC-BSD is a product, by a private company. The burden of proof is on them. PC-BSD is an organisation or group; I wouldn't go as far as calling them a private company

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:52:15 + Matthew Seaman articulated: > No, the company behind PC-BSD is called iXsystems. They do an awful > lot in the FreeBSD sphere, and PC-BSD is one of their products. While > PC-BSD is a community driven project, iXsystems employs the project > foun

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/03/2012 22:56, Da Rock wrote: >> That's also an obligation to test it. >> PC-BSD is a product, by a private company. The burden of proof is on >> them. > PC-BSD is an organisation or group; I wouldn't go as far as calling them > a private company. No, t

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-04 Thread Edward M.
On 03/04/2012 12:27 AM, jb wrote: But ..., the charm disappeared when I (intentionally ?) pulled ethernet plug and started update manager ... Classic example of fallacious reasoning. update manager needs the internet to access the updates ___ freeb

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-04 Thread Da Rock
7;", instead of requiring CLI sysadmin experience, reading error logs, and running diagnostic commands to fix things. ... Well, the PC-BSD team set these goals for themselves: "PC-BSD has as its goals to be an easy-to-install-and-use desktop operating system, based on FreeBSD. To accompli

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-04 Thread jb
of requiring CLI sysadmin > experience, reading error logs, and running diagnostic commands to fix things. > ... Well, the PC-BSD team set these goals for themselves: "PC-BSD has as its goals to be an easy-to-install-and-use desktop operating system, based on FreeBSD. To accompl

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
different issue. [ ... ] A few days ago I read this, from a good, minimum-functional-tests-must-pass, some wit but no-nonsense reviewer: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/pc-bsd-9.html Well, "Radioactive", "The shortest experience ever!". Does it matter to FreeBSD ? That's

PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-04 Thread jb
Hi, some month ago I saw PC-BSD 9 release announcement and was curious enough to try it. Also, it received a good review on some mostly Linux oriented web site. The installation was very pleasant thanks to its installer - a very impressive software component (considering rather spartan

[SOLVED] sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-19 Thread Zhang Weiwu, Beijing
I am actually amazed nobody nor the handbook mentioned OSS to me, because after learned this, it suddenly become obvious this option should be tried right after failure of snd_driver. In fact, the sound card in-topic is Ali M5455, the first on the list of sound card supported by OSS. http://m

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 16 April 2011 14:42:43 Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 09:42:38AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > > > # kldload snd_driver > > > > this will never work. > > Yes, it will. 'snd_driver' is a meta-module which depends on, and > therefore will pull in, all the

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 09:42:38AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > did you really get no other answer? > > On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: > > Hello. I intend to use FreeBSD instead of PC-BSD. The sound card doesn't > > work o

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-16 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:42:38 +0700 Erich Dollansky wrote: > On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: > > Hello. I intend to use FreeBSD instead of PC-BSD. The sound card doesn't > > work on FreeBSD 8.2. I tried to follow the manual and loaded all sou

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 16 April 2011 11:16:39 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: > On 04/16/2011 10:42 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: > >> # kldload snd_driver > > this will never work. > > > > You must load the driver for your sound card. Something l

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-15 Thread Zhang Weiwu, Beijing
On 04/16/2011 10:42 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: # kldload snd_driver this will never work. You must load the driver for your sound card. Something like kldload snd_hda I am confused, because the handbook says the opposite: http://

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, did you really get no other answer? On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: > Hello. I intend to use FreeBSD instead of PC-BSD. The sound card doesn't > work on FreeBSD 8.2. I tried to follow the manual and loaded all sound > card drivers > >

sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-15 Thread Zhang Weiwu, Beijing
Hello. I intend to use FreeBSD instead of PC-BSD. The sound card doesn't work on FreeBSD 8.2. I tried to follow the manual and loaded all sound card drivers # kldload snd_driver But no driver works: # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386) Installed de

install pc-bsd into a jail?

2011-03-27 Thread Peter Vereshagin
We can live forever looking to my eyes, freebsd-questions! I can install world into a jail as it is spelled in jail(2). I can install freebsd as a binary from dvd as I can use its install.sh How could I install a binary pcbsd from dvd into a jail? Thank you. 73! Peter pgp: A0E26627 (4A42 6841 287

was FreeBSD 8.1 success, now PC-BSD success

2010-10-29 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; I just completed a new PC-BSD install on the same machine I last posted a success message for FreeBSD 8.1. I do not have time to fiddle much right now and upgrading FreeBSD 8.1 from ports was giving me fits. But, living on the edge has it's price. I took the advise provid

PC BSD and GPT

2010-05-07 Thread Russ Adams
I am sorry to bother you with such a question, but I cannot seem to install the live version or the boot/install versions of PC BSD to an already formatted GUID/GPT hdd. The drive shows up as a whole drive but does not recognize the fat32 formatted partitions. I install about 6 Linux distros

Re: 2 qstns re pc-bsd...

2010-05-05 Thread Gary Kline
to radio streams about 5 to 1, but the standalone BBC || NPR radio deals wouldn't play on freebsd. And none of the video streams played here. it was partly mucking with that proprietary Sun stuff, and maybe the flashit too. nutshell, only on linux did

Re: 2 qstns re pc-bsd...

2010-05-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Gary Kline wrote: i ask here? [i'm trying to add my beloved zsh [[heart-throbs]], and ff3, and others. i thought i had installed the ports stuff. nope. When I looked at PCBSD some while ago it had 3 ways of doing ports. #1 is standard (make install) FreeBSD ports, #2 is also standard FreeBSD

2 qstns re pc-bsd...

2010-05-05 Thread Gary Kline
while it installed faitly easily, the ssh studd failed; so is there any easy way of doing this? and more important, am i going to have to join thepc-bsd list or will you guys be pissed off if i ask here? [i'm trying to add my beloved zsh [[heart-throbs]], and ff3, and others. i thought i had ins

Re: freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-25 Thread Andrew Gould
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Charles Oppermann wrote: > > If your willing to buy books concerning FreeBSD I'd suggest Absolute > > FreeBSD 2nd edition (if you have use Unix like systems) or FreeBSD > > Unleashed 6 (though it was published at the of FreeBSD 6 it is still > > very applicable and

RE: freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-25 Thread Charles Oppermann
> If your willing to buy books concerning FreeBSD I'd suggest Absolute > FreeBSD 2nd edition (if you have use Unix like systems) or FreeBSD > Unleashed 6 (though it was published at the of FreeBSD 6 it is still > very applicable and provides introduction to Unix like systems). Second the recommend

Re: freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-24 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Friday 24 April 2009 11:06:03 am Michael Jr. wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd > and pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a > desktop compared to pc-bsd? Hi there Michael =) In regards to the differe

Re: freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Ricardo Jesus wrote: > Michael Jr. wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and >> pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop >> compared to pc-bsd?

Re: freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-24 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Michael Jr. wrote: Hi, I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop compared to pc-bsd? Will freebsd work with sager laptops, and will freebsd recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory and if it does not

Re: freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-24 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Michael Jr. wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and > pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop > compared to pc-bsd? Will freebsd work with sager laptops, and will freebs

freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Jr.
Hi, I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop compared to pc-bsd? Will freebsd work with sager laptops, and will freebsd recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory and if it does not regularly, how

[Fwd: SCIM under PC-BSD]

2008-09-22 Thread Luigi
--- Begin Message --- Hi all, I would just like to know : Is that a system as SCIM (system hwo allow to switch between keaboards) under PC-BSD ? What is the name of this software ? Thank you all. Luigi --- End Message --- ___ freebsd-questions

SCIM under PC-BSD

2008-09-22 Thread LUIGI
Hi all, I would just like to know : Is that a system as SCIM (system hwo allow to switch between keaboards) under PC-BSD ? What is the name of this software ? Thank you all. Luigi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: OT:: anybody on-list use "PC-BSD"? or "bSD-PC"?

2007-08-16 Thread beni
On Friday 10 August 2007 01:16:48 Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, > > A couple years ago I got a hold of Ubuntu and until recent months > thought it was the best thing since [[ fill-in ]]. > Long-story-shot, I am wedged at 6.06 (a Long Term Support) > version, and because th

Re: OT:: anybody on-list use "PC-BSD"? or "bSD-PC"?

2007-08-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:24:00PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > My experience with PC-BSD was that it was just different enough to > break alot of FreeBSD's documentation, and they don't have enough of > their own. I was a newbie, of course, but I went with vanilla FreeB

Re: OT:: anybody on-list use "PC-BSD"? or "bSD-PC"?

2007-08-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
close. Has anybody on this list used the PC version of BSD? What about a "desktop-BSD"?? tested both when i needed some humour :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: OT:: anybody on-list use "PC-BSD"? or "bSD-PC"?

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Franks
My experience with PC-BSD was that it was just different enough to break alot of FreeBSD's documentation, and they don't have enough of their own. I was a newbie, of course, but I went with vanilla FreeBSD because of the handbook and freebsd-questions, and I've no regrets. Been at

Re: OT:: anybody on-list use "PC-BSD"? or "bSD-PC"?

2007-08-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On 8/9/07, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Guys, > >close. Has anybody on this list used the PC version of BSD? >What about a "desktop-BSD"?? > > suggestion? advice? I've used PC-BSD, and agree with Jonathan - it&

Re: OT:: anybody on-list use "PC-BSD"? or "bSD-PC"?

2007-08-09 Thread Jonathan Horne
On 8/9/07 8:16 PM, "Gary Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anybody on this list used the PC version of BSD? > What about a "desktop-BSD"?? I gave them both a try when I first got into FreeBSD. I didn't particularly care for their package management system. DesktopBSD has a really cool li

OT:: anybody on-list use "PC-BSD"? or "bSD-PC"?

2007-08-09 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, A couple years ago I got a hold of Ubuntu and until recent months thought it was the best thing since [[ fill-in ]]. Long-story-shot, I am wedged at 6.06 (a Long Term Support) version, and because the *next* "LTS" isn't due until 2009 and *mo

PC-BSD 1.2: /dev/agpgart missing on i810 chipset

2006-12-17 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi All, I installed PC-BSD 1.2 (FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2) on a PC with i810 chipset. Well, as you might have guessed from the subject, X did not start, with an error indicating the /dev/agpgart was not present. AFAIK, agp, drm support is built-in for FreeBSD 6.1 - so I am not sure why /dev

Re: FreeBSD/PC-BSD Stand

2006-04-05 Thread Bill Moran
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:46:06 +0200 "Gonzalo Martinez-Sanjuan Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > Im supporting the english and spanish PC-BSD Community, an Operating > System based on FreeBSD and would like to ask some features about > FreeBSD. Ill tell: >

FreeBSD/PC-BSD Stand

2006-04-05 Thread Gonzalo Martinez-Sanjuan Sanchez
Hi. Im supporting the english and spanish PC-BSD Community, an Operating System based on FreeBSD and would like to ask some features about FreeBSD. Ill tell: In Madrid exists SIMO (an anual famous computering fair) and was thinking in asking for a stand of FreeBSD/PC-BSD just for giving some

Re: PC-BSD

2005-12-30 Thread Teilhard Knight
- Original Message - From: "Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 4:46 PM Subject: Re: PC-BSD Can PC-BSD be installed in a logical partition? I understand FreeBSD can only be installed

Re: PC-BSD

2005-12-26 Thread Victor
> Can PC-BSD be installed in a logical partition? I understand > FreeBSD can > only be installed in a primary partition. > > Teilhard. I'm quite sure you are correct, but I'd ask on the PC-BSD forums, as this list deals with

PC-BSD

2005-12-25 Thread Teilhard Knight
Can PC-BSD be installed in a logical partition? I understand FreeBSD can only be installed in a primary partition. Teilhard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: PC-BSD and Request Tracker

2005-12-07 Thread Will Maier
x. With that,a couple questions: After reading the message subject and this paragraph, I'm not sure what you're running, exactly. You mention Linux -- FreeBSD is not Linux. You also mention PC-BSD. FreeBSD is also not PC-BSD (although PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD). All the different *nixes can b

PC-BSD and Request Tracker

2005-12-07 Thread Rory Schmitz
Hi, I'm fairy new to Linux and I'm in the process of installing Request Tracker (RT) for trouble tickets with staff members. The RT website stated I needed to be running PERL 5.8.3 or higher on my BSD box. With that,a couple questions: 1) Can RT be ran from PC-BSD if you are fam