Re: 7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-12-01 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Frank Staals wrote: > Freminlins wrote: > > >> Err, yeah. Look through hundreds of packages to see which dependencies >> they >> have. Helpful. Not. >> >> This way of doing X11 is seriously unhelpful to end users. If having >> individual packages for everything is so good, please tell me why >> e

Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop

2007-12-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: >>but I don't want to logout >> and login back in and/or have to invoke the app from the cmd line >> (i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY :0; app cmd line)... I am looking for a >> way to make it so I can launch apps from a desktop panel and/or

FreeBSD Schedule

2007-12-01 Thread David Naylor
Hi, I saw that someone updated the schedule pages for FBSD-7: Thank you!!! David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

FreeBSD7 - PAE and nVidia

2007-12-01 Thread David Naylor
Hi, I have googled, looked though the mailing archives and the FreeBSD Handbook but I have not found out how to build a PAE FreeBSD kernel with nVidia graphics drivers included. This is for an Asus P5N-E system with 4GB of RAM and SLI graphics cards. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Re: named.conf - unable to set control bit

2007-12-01 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD
On Fri, November 30, 2007 20:11, David Robillard wrote: >>Hi list, >> >>I have got the following issue. I have added the following settings in >>named.conf but am unable to get it working. If I read the man page it >>seems that what I have put in is completely correct. >> >>REason to put it in is t

Re: FreeBSD7 - PAE and nVidia

2007-12-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Naylor wrote: > Hi, > > I have googled, looked though the mailing archives and the FreeBSD > Handbook but I have not found out how to build a PAE FreeBSD kernel > with nVidia graphics drivers included. This is for an Asus P5N-E > system with 4GB

Re: FreeBSD7 - PAE and nVidia

2007-12-01 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 01 December 2007, David Naylor wrote: > I have googled, looked though the mailing archives and the FreeBSD > Handbook but I have not found out how to build a PAE FreeBSD kernel > with nVidia graphics drivers included. This is for an Asus P5N-E > system with 4GB of RAM and SLI graphics

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:44:27AM +, John Murphy wrote: > I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 > to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too > bad this time. I thought I'd broken it after choosing /bin/tcsh as my > shell in single use

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 02:15:26PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:44:27AM +, John Murphy wrote: > > I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 > > to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too > > bad this time. I tho

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread John Murphy
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:18:13 + RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 04:44:27 + > John Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 > > to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too > > b

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread John Murphy
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:46:12 + Daniel Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 02:15:26PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:44:27AM +, John Murphy wrote: > > > I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 > > > to beta3. I've

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread RW
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 14:06:19 + John Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:18:13 + > RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Selecting /bin/[t]csh always works for me. > > I just tried it again with exactly the same results (FreeBSD-7.0 > beta3): > > [after pressing 4 at

(OT) thunderbird + enigmail + gmail

2007-12-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am running Thunderbird (2.0.0.7) and enigmail (0.95.5) to access my gmail and since last night I get a SSL certificate out of date message (says gmail's cert expired jan. 30 2005). Just for verification the output of date(1) on my end is: Sat Dec

FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE build error

2007-12-01 Thread Jack Raats
After a sucessfull build of the kernel and world, make installworld gives the following errors: install-info --quiet --defsection="Programming & development tools." --defentry="* libcom_err: (com_err).A Common Error Description Library for UNIX." com_err.info /usr/share/info/dir inst

Re: FreeBSD7 - PAE and nVidia

2007-12-01 Thread David Naylor
Thanks for the info. Also from what I can see PAE does not support USB. The reason why I am using i386 is because I'm not going to sacrifice my gaming :-) which means nvidia. Thanks David p.s. I'm volunteering to do any testing for an amd64 version of the nvidia driver... On 01/12/2007, Piete

Still Seeing A Problem Building dmx

2007-12-01 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Has anyone found a work around for this? It's been a problem for several months: ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x774): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_set_device_removed' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x78b): In function `connect_hook': : undefine

acx100 under 7.0-BETA3

2007-12-01 Thread Colin Brace
Hi all, I have a wireless card with the Texas Instruments ACX 111 chipset that appears to be supported by the acx100 driver. However, when I run "make install" in /usr/ports/net/acx100, I get an error message: $ sudo make install ===> acx100-20040701_1 is marked as broken: Does not compile on F

using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Steve Franks
I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different # bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and power up. I have gmirrored before, but I just wanted to do a quick dd, since I don't want to

Diagnosing an unstable machine

2007-12-01 Thread Ross Penner
I'm currently using FreeBSD 6.2 to run as a fileserver and gateway for my home. It's been incredibly unstable and I'm trying to figure out why. What can I do to try and figure out what is causing these crashes? Apparently the machine just rebooted 20min ago looking at the uptime. They're seemingly

System Reboots with Bittorrent Use

2007-12-01 Thread ruggeri
Hi! I have had this problem before, so let me narrate the history (quickly). I used to use the rtorrent port. However, when running rtorrent (never any other time) the system would spontaneously reboot. I couldn't figure out what exactly the problem was, but when I switched to deluge (another b

Re: Diagnosing an unstable machine

2007-12-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:42 AM 12/1/2007, Ross Penner wrote: I'm currently using FreeBSD 6.2 to run as a fileserver and gateway for my home. It's been incredibly unstable and I'm trying to figure out why. What can I do to try and figure out what is causing these crashes? Apparently the machine just rebooted 20min a

Re: System Reboots with Bittorrent Use

2007-12-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:53 AM 12/1/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have had this problem before, so let me narrate the history (quickly). I used to use the rtorrent port. However, when running rtorrent (never any other time) the system would spontaneously reboot. I couldn't figure out what exactly the pro

Re: System Reboots with Bittorrent Use

2007-12-01 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 11:53:52AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! I have had this problem before, so let me narrate the > history (quickly). > > I used to use the rtorrent port. However, when running > rtorrent (never any other time) the system would spontaneously > reboot. I couldn't fi

gmirror array not unmounting at shutdown

2007-12-01 Thread rloefgren
I have a mirror with two 500GB SATA drives for storage. The system is on a gmirror of two 18GB SCSIs. the SATA mirror mounts under /u2 and is in fstab. If I reboot, when the machine comes back up I get a notice that /u2 was not unmounted properly. I go into single user, unmount /u2 and do a fsc

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Steve Franks wrote: I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different # bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and power up. I have gmirrored before, but I just wanted to do a quick dd,

Linux /proc on FreeBSD

2007-12-01 Thread Lennart Koopmann
Hey everyone, i am going to port a server that i am currently working on to FreeBSD. I don't have much experience with FreeBSD yet. The only real big thing i have to change is the way some data is fetched. In the Linux version i read in data like the hostname, the domainname, the kernel version et

Re: Linux /proc on FreeBSD

2007-12-01 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Sunday 02 December 2007, Lennart Koopmann wrote: > Hey everyone, > > i am going to port a server that i am currently working on to FreeBSD. > I don't have much experience with FreeBSD yet. > The only real big thing i have to change is the way some data is > fetched. In the Linux version i read i

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Mike Jeays
On December 1, 2007 03:19:59 pm Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Steve Franks wrote: > > I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different # > > bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system > > for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and > > pow

Re: Firewall Redirect

2007-12-01 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Lucas Neves Martins wrote: >422 ipfw add 950 divert 8082 tcp from any to any 80 via em0 Hi! I do something similar, except with a small home-grown server used to serve 'You are banned' pages to people who insist on driving my poor little webserver into swap. The directive you're looking for

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread RW
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 20:53:41 -0500 Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried using dd with two 80GB disks, using a much larger block size > (512M), booting Knoppix to make sure the filesystems on the 'input' > disk were quiescent. It worked, but took an amazing 14 hours, which > is only abou

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:29:15AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different # > bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system > for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and > power up. I have gmir

The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-11-11 - 2007-12-01

2007-12-01 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the maili

setting up slave server with Zoneedit need help

2007-12-01 Thread cuongvt
I have a `internal' network visible only internally. Let say: hanhnhu.local. This is my master for the local zone. I registered 'vuhanhnhu.com' domain with my registrar and pointed it to zoneedit nameservers: ns3.zoneedit.com and ns9.zoneedit.com. I'm using NAT. So how can I set up slave with z

RE: CD Audio on D975XBX2 mobo

2007-12-01 Thread jvk-list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I bought the board without looking at the audio parts, because "every" > board has a CD in port. Turns out this one doesn't, it uses digital > CD Audio and doesn't use the connector anymore > ([1][2]http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop

Re: System Reboots with Bittorrent Use

2007-12-01 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:14:27PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 07:48:20 +1300 > >From: Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I have since reformatted my computer. I began using deluge > >> again a couple weeks ago, but am again experiencing > >> spontaneous reboots,