On Tuesday 11 January 2005 05:54 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> Thanks to those who provided (and may provide in the future) their
> responses to my question. I appreciate the input.
>
> Frankly, when I saw a recent post about instabilities in 5.3, I think
> I may have gotten overly concerned about it.
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:19 am, Martin McCormick wrote:
> I have been asked as to whether there are any VPN applications
> that can run on UNIX clients using Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS. I
> think the general idea is that they could tunnel in from outside of
> our campus and receive an
On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:24 pm, John wrote:
> I just keep painting myself into corners, and I'm hoping that people
> can point out some (presumably dumb) things that I am doing, and
> recommend a course of action that will get me back to where I want
> to be.
>
> I have a Compaq Armada M700 o
On Thursday 13 January 2005 04:18 pm, John wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:08:53PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:24 pm, John wrote:
> > > I just keep painting myself into corners, and I'm hoping that
> > > people can point o
On Thursday 13 January 2005 05:05 pm, you wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:01:25PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 January 2005 04:18 pm, John wrote:
>
> ...
>
> Thanks, Andrew - any advice on the kde versus kde-lite thing? I've
> been looking aro
On Thursday 13 January 2005 07:04 pm, E. J. Cerejo wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 and I have a USB HP printer (Deskjet 842C)
> and I can't find any tutorials and the hand book is not much help
> either unless I'm missing something on how to setup any USB printer
> under FreeBSD. Can anyone help
On Friday 14 January 2005 06:43 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> lord grinny writes:
>
> lg> Don't they?? Then what are all the law suits about?
>
> Business.
I respectfully disagree. Business is people. People who do business
well abhor lawsuits.
"Lawyers are like nuclear missiles -- they have
On Friday 14 January 2005 05:13 am, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> Hello FreeBSD Friends.
>
> I have just arrived to the FreeBSD world. I am not an expert on
> anything, I am only a computer fan and use my computer mainly for my
> engineering work and hobbies (amateur radio, photography, astronomy,
> etc.)
On Friday 14 January 2005 12:23 pm, John wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > >3. Definitely go with a clean installation of FreeBSD 5.3 rather
> > > than 5.2.1.
> >
On Friday 14 January 2005 02:12 pm, John wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:32:03PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Friday 14 January 2005 12:23 pm, John wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst
wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> &g
On Thursday 20 January 2005 05:30 pm, Brian John wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to get pf to work on my 5.3 machine. I thought that I
> had it setup but it says that I don't have ALTQ support? What is
> that? Can someone help me set it up?
>
> Thanks
>
> /Brian
ALTQ is a kernel option. Add the
I'm running pf in FreeBSD 5.3 on my laptop. The filters for the local
box work fine.
I'm also working on a pc for a friend; but ran out of ethernet ports in
my router. This pc doesn't have a wireless adapter; so I adjusted my
pf rules to use my laptop as a gateway for the pc.
I want my fil
On Friday 21 January 2005 08:20 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> I'm running pf in FreeBSD 5.3 on my laptop. The filters for the
> local box work fine.
>
> I'm also working on a pc for a friend; but ran out of ethernet ports
> in my router. This pc doesn't have a wirele
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:44 am, Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> After nearly a week of fighting the dual problem of OpenBSD 3.6
> release freezing on my hardware, and some rather odious personalities
> on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, I decided to install FreeBSD
> 5.3-RELEASE on the web server
On Friday 11 March 2005 10:33 am, Paulo Roberto wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am not able to use a usb/serial converter with minicom. I loaded
> ucom and uplcom, but only ugen messages are printed on the console.
>
> ugen0: FTDI USB <-> Serial, rev 1.10/4.00, addr 2
>
> I tried ugen0, ugen0.1 and ugen0.2 w
On Thursday 17 March 2005 08:51 am, Gerry Freymann wrote:
> I've been using Sharity Light to access open shares on my Windoze
> machine from FreeBSD.
>
> But somewhere along the line I know this is now built-in to FreeBSD
> but I can't remember or find what program to use to do this and I
> would p
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 03:29 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
> > You have no proof of that unless you were to run the tests that I
> > already posted.
>
> You're wasting my time. Perhaps somebody who actually understands how
> FreeBSD works will offer useful assistance soo
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 10:02 am, daniel wrote:
> On March 22, 2005 10:54 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > I have this big curse that I have to access the office computer
> > from home. The office PC runs WinXP Home, not Professional.
> > I have turned the Internet upside-down trying to get an a
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:18 pm, Christopher Nehren wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 2005-03-22, daniel scribbled these
>
> curious markings:
> > security note:
> > vnc is *not* encrypted and is not generally considered secure. any
> > ports you open/forward should
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 03:26 pm, Ean Kingston wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:18 pm, Christopher Nehren wrote:
> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> >> Hash: SHA1
> >>
> >> On 2005-03-22, daniel scribbled these
> >>
> >> curious markings:
> >> > security note:
> >> > vnc is *not* encry
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 03:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:41:16 +0100
>
> Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What shell file manager do you like or x file manager ?
>
> i like mc and xfe and konqueror (good support for ftp,sftp,webdav),
> but normally i only us
e/gert/ in cm
> using f5 ? ___
The link below leads to an introduction to mc that you may find useful:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue23/wkndmech_dec97/mc_article.html
Best of luck,
Andrew L. Gould
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fre
On Friday 21 January 2005 05:21 pm, Dana / Lucas wrote:
> Im trying to figure out why my some of my burns skip randomly and
> some don't. Also, my Miramax videos don't give any sound on playback
> of the burned dvd. Do I have to slow my burning speed? If so, how?
If you're using growisofs from
I just noted that FreeBSD 4.11 has been released and that there are now
2 CD#1's -- one for gnome and one for kde.
Does anyone know how exclusive these CD's are? That is, does the gnome
CD have kde-lite, or no kde at all? Does kde lack all gnome stuff?
(Or better yet, does this mean that had
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 05:06 pm, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
> Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:37 pm, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
> >>Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> >>>I'm about to recompile a kernel on a computer with an AMD K6-2 450
> >
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 05:32 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-01-25 17:15, "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm selecting CPU types in the kernel configuration file, which
> > lists only i386, i486, i586 and i686.
>
> AFAIK, a
I'm about to recompile a kernel on a computer with an AMD K6-2 450
processor. Is the K6-2 an i586 or i686 CPU?
Thanks,
Andrew
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On Wednesday 26 January 2005 03:15 pm, RW wrote:
> I recently upgraded my CD burner to a DVD burner. I have the
> ATAPI/CAM options built-in to my 5.3 kernel and can burn DVDs with
> growisofs.
>
> How should I burn CDs in the DVD drive? Should I use growisofs with
> /dev/cd0 or should I used bur
I noticed that php ports conflict with php-cli ports. Does that mean
you can't do both web and cli programs in php on the same computer? Or
does php include command line capabilities?
Thanks,
Andrew
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On Friday 28 January 2005 06:25 pm, Pete Dela Cruz wrote:
> I tried to boot FreeBsd for the first time and I get this "Login"
> prompt. What to do? I don't know what my login is. I don't remember
> being prompted or assigned a login during the installation process.
> Please help. Thanks
>
>
> Pete
On Friday 28 January 2005 10:13 pm, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 STABLE.
>
> I've installed firefox and linuxpluginwrapper.
>
> Where do I get plugin support for acrobat?
>
> I've installed acroread and I rebuilt firefox hoping it would see it
> and add it.
A file named libma
On Monday 31 January 2005 12:39 pm, Mark Ovens wrote:
> Charles Swiger wrote:
> > On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:22 PM, albi wrote:
> >> Mark Ovens wrote:
> >>> I want to install apache with SSL but there are two ports,
> >>> www/apache13-modssl and www/apache13-ssl
> >>> What is the difference, and which i
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 07:54 am, Rod Person wrote:
> 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 Handbo
oops. I forgot to send this back to the list.
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: dvd-burning/alternative to k3b?
Date: Thursday 03 February 2005 09:56 am
From: "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 03 February 2005 09:02 am,
On Friday 04 February 2005 10:45 am, Damian Sobieralski wrote:
> I'd be happy to try that. Quick question- I use KDE. Can I have
> GNOME installed on the same box with KDE without any conflicts? Can
> I run the compiled app via KDE?
>
> In ignornance,
>
> - Damian
Yes, KDE and Gnome can coexi
On Sunday 06 February 2005 01:39 pm, darren david wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I have been searching high and low for a straightforward VPN
> configuration HOWTO with no luck. everything i've found is way over
> my head and very convoluted (to me, at least). Perhaps such is the
> nature of VPN.
>
> My goal
On Monday 07 February 2005 08:33 am, Marshall Kiam-Laine wrote:
> ***hi all, rookie fiddler calling :)
>
>just loaded fbsd5.3amd64 but it stopped at the login prompt.
>
>(1) $>startkde didnt work, is that the right command please ?
>
>(2) what command to start gnome ?
>
>(3) how to
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 09:51 am, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know)
> > that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to support a desktop
> > environment (including JAVA) for both Windows XP and FreeBSD on my
> > laptop. :(
> >
> > I hav
Is anyone running authpf with Windows clients in the network? If so,
how are the Windows clients logging in? What's the easiest mechanism
for this.
I want my grandson to have free access to the (Windows) computers; but I
want an adult to manually authorize internet access to prevent
unsuperv
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 12:58 pm, Julien Gabel wrote:
> >> See the thread "The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public
> >> competition for the new logo design. " in -advocacy - I've
> >> already replied with my views on the subject, along the same lines
> >> as your comments.
> >
> > I'm
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 02:49 pm, Volker Kindermann wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> > Is anyone running authpf with Windows clients in the network? If
> > so, how are the Windows clients logging in? What's the easiest
> > mechanism for this.
>
> as Hexren posted, putty is good for doing this. You c
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 07:09 pm, - wrote:
> http://www.petitiononline.com/fbsdmsc1/petition.html
>
> Julien Gabel wrote:
> >>>See the thread "The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public
> >>> competition for the new logo design. " in -advocacy - I've
> >>> already replied with my views on
On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:36 am, HuGo Herter wrote:
> Hello,
> I've just installed the last version of FreeBSD (5.3), after the
> reference, but I cannot launch any WindowManager using KDM : KDM
> closes and restart immediatly...
> I think that it's the same about XDM. But my Window Managers
On Thursday 10 February 2005 02:28 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Danie Du Toit writes:
> > Which packages are available to upload /download large dumpfiles in
> > a secure fashion (e.g. using SSL). The customer should not need any
> > secure client installed on his PC.
>
> Anything that is secure
On Thursday 10 February 2005 06:00 pm, Mark A. Garcia wrote:
>
>
> I'd like to hear a story of a system administrator who has chosen not
> to use FreeBSD explicitly because of the logo. That would be way
> more entertaining. Everyone could learn more about human nature.
>
> -.mag
If you're tryi
On Thursday 10 February 2005 07:13 pm, Mike Hauber wrote:
>
> I have two questions. These are not accusations, but questions
> and I don't want accusations in response.
>
> 1. Why was this so hush-hush (ie, Why was it "leakable" (ie, why
> the secrecy, if FreeBSD is supposed to be a project where
On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:38 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dick
> > Davies Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:10 PM
> > To: FreeBSD Questions
> > Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to anot
On Friday 11 February 2005 08:14 am, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Imagine Linux dropping Tux for some meanlingless, lifeless logo?
>
> I'm glad you asked.
>
> Tux is a mascot, not a logo. These are Linux logos:
>
> http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topiccaldera.gif
>
On Friday 11 February 2005 10:46 am, Jorge Mario G. wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I just read
> http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/12/27/1243207.shtml?tid=72&;
>tid=29%20result and as in any onther benchmark there is a lot stuff
> that
> can be arguable. I would like to know why is that
> happening?
On Friday 11 February 2005 04:11 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
> > Many of the people that work
> > on it are paid to work on it by their employers, who are using it
> > commercially.
>
> That would mean that their employers hold a copyright in the FreeBSD
> cod
On Friday 11 February 2005 04:17 pm, Sean wrote:
>
> What is the difference between PostgreSQL and MySQL?
> From what I see MySQL seems to be more common.
>
> Sean
What.not enough holy wars this week? ;-)
PostgreSQL and MySQL are both good database server applications. Here
are some
On Monday 14 February 2005 08:17 pm, Peterhin wrote:
> I have been reading the handbook and have started my installation,
> from a CD.
> However it goes straight to the sysinstall menu, it does not give me
> the Kernel Configuration menu, as per the handbook. (2.3.2 Kernel
> Configuration)
> What a
On Monday 14 February 2005 09:40 pm, Peterhin wrote:
> I am using 5.3.
> My question would be how current is the handbook, I was under the
> impression that it was the most current of all the sources for
> Freebsd. Am I wrong.?
>
> Thanks for your quick reply.
>
The handbook currently represents b
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:48 am, Randy Pratt wrote:
> There was a site collecting information about motherboards. It was
> at:
> http://www.eilio.com/freebsd-motherboards/
>
> It seems to be gone along with all the information that was
> collected.
>
> For reference, this was the origin
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:40 am, Lars Hederidder wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I have a 3Com 3CRSHPW_96 Wireless PCMIA card for my laptop.
> However I'm a newbie at using PCMIA cards on FreeBSD.
>
> BSD finds the card when I plug it in, but it doesn't show up when
> I use the ifconfig command.
>
> Can any
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:55 am, Peterhin wrote:
> I have just installed Freebsd 5.3 using a standard install, with all
> packages, and ports.
>
> When I go to Configure X (as per the handbook 2.9.12) using
> "Configure" Do post-install configuration of Freebsd, in the
> Configuration menu th
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 12:23 pm, Peterhin wrote:
> On February 15, 2005 12:09, you wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:55 am, Peterhin wrote:
> > > I have just installed Freebsd 5.3 using a standard install, with
> > > all packages, and ports.
> > >
> > > When I go to Configure X (as per
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 01:06 pm, Lars Hederidder wrote:
> I've tryed to use the Windows driver, but it doesn't seem to
> work. I did the following:
>
> # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis/
> # make && make install
> # cd ../if_ndis/
> # cp /cdrom/driver/* ./
> # ndiscvt -i ./netwpx96.inf -s ./wlpx9
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 04:22 pm, RL wrote:
> Java isn't showing up in about:plugins on Firefox. I compiled java
> (when I compiled OpenOffice) and here is my /etc/libmap.conf entry
> for it (maybe I missed something?)
>
> [/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/java]
> libkse.so.1libc_r.
On Thursday 17 February 2005 07:08 am, Vittorio wrote:
> As a newbie I can create a new FreeBSD UFS partition/slice by means
> of sysinstall (by the way, I installed freeBSD 5.3).
> Now recently I freed some partitions devoted to M$ Windows (at last!)
> and I want to transform them into UFS partiti
On Thursday 17 February 2005 07:08 am, Vittorio wrote:
> As a newbie I can create a new FreeBSD UFS partition/slice by means
> of sysinstall (by the way, I installed freeBSD 5.3).
> Now recently I freed some partitions devoted to M$ Windows (at last!)
> and I want to transform them into UFS partiti
On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:18 pm, Joachim Dagerot wrote:
> I just cvsuped to freebsd-stable and buildworld. No problems.
>
> Now I want to build the kernel with the same conf as I used for the
> last years (5.x), but I ran into problems. device "pcm" is unknown.
>
> Is this a 'common' problem,
> > Scott Stevenson wrote:
> >> I'm a relatively new user of FreeBSD (5.3 release), and have
> >> encountered a problem that I haven't seen on other platforms. The
> >> details and a screenshot are outlined here:
> >>
> >> http://theocacao.com/document.page/82
> >>
> >> Essentially, web content (te
On Monday 21 February 2005 10:37 am, Peterhin wrote:
> I have installed Freebsd 5.3, and I am at Chapter 5.6 of the
> handbook, and really can't figure out where to go from here.
> How do I start XDM? or do I do that with 'startx'. If so I have a
> further problem, in that when I try 'startx' I get
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:46 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Jacob S writes:
> > Good. I'm glad to see the average Windows user looking around the
> > computer store still gets to see an alternative once in a while.
>
> I'm pretty sure I've seen Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat, Fedora, and a
> couple
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 02:24 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Andrew L. Gould writes:
> > You can still find FreeBSD at Fry's Electronics and MicroCenter. I
> > don't know if CompUSA still carries it. I have mixed feelings
> > about FreeBSD 5.0-5.2.1 being sol
On Friday 25 February 2005 05:27 am, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> What is the easiest way to copy a complete cdrom with freebsd-4.11?
> Normally I use burncd to burn an iso file to a new cdr, but I never
> copied a complete cdrom to cdr under freebsd. My windows machines are
> down and I need the copy
On Friday 25 February 2005 02:12 pm, Peterhin wrote:
> On February 25, 2005 14:09, you wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:11:34PM -0500, Peterhin wrote:
> > > I have 5.3 installed, and am trying to get my dial-up going.
> > > In the handbook under 21.2.1.2 when I try to do a
> > > 'cd /dev
On Friday 25 February 2005 03:47 pm, Peterhin wrote:
> OK here is what I get when I
> 'ps ax | grep ppp'
>
> '202 ?? ls 0:00.04 /usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -auto -nat papchap'
>
> FYI. the modem does disconnect after the '300sec'.
> and I can re-dial to get the connection again, so that all works
> fine.
On Monday 05 January 2004 10:17 am, Dru wrote:
> I'm trying to convert a manpage to postscript and have tried these 3
> variants:
>
> groff -Tps -mandoc /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz > ls.ps
> groff -Tps -mdoc /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz > ls.ps
> groff -Tps -man /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz > ls.ps
>
On Monday 05 January 2004 10:21 am, Dany wrote:
> What about DVD playing ? Does that take advantage of the Nvidia driver
> or will that work with nv ?
>
> Dany wrote:
> > That's a good idea but if I do that I will be missing the cool
> > screensavers using OpenGL ;)
> >
> > Stijn Hoop wrote:
> >> O
On Monday 05 January 2004 10:38 am, Dany wrote:
> Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> >On Monday 05 January 2004 10:21 am, Dany wrote:
> >>What about DVD playing ? Does that take advantage of the Nvidia driver
> >>or will that work with nv ?
> >>
> >>Dany wrot
On Monday 05 January 2004 12:02 pm, G. Held wrote:
> >Can you just paste dmesg -a?
>
> Righty-O:
>
>
> --G. Held
> --
>
> Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> The Regents of the University
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:35 am, Dan Dan wrote:
> I needed to reinstall Windows after a FreeBSD 5.x
> install. I knew that I could reinstall the boot
> manager from the CD. However, looking at the FAQ
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#WIN95-DAM
>AGED-BOOT-MAN
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:44 am, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed kdebase along with other packages using pkg_add but I cannot
> run start-kde. Why? Where is my KDE files that I installed are located?
>
> TIA.
>
> Mazen
There is a meta-port "kde3" that will install the desktop e
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:07 pm, Nick Tonkin wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have a dim recollection (and a CD) of using commercially produced X
> drivers (by XI Graphics) in FreeBSD 2.x and maybe 3.x
>
> I called XIG and they do not offer drivers for 5.x.
>
> I am dissatisfied with the graphics perf
On Thursday 08 January 2004 04:21 am, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sound is not working on my laptop that has FreeBSD 4.9 installed on. I
> want to check the detected driver (if any) by the system and configure
> it to use the right one.
>
> How can this be done whether by using KDE or on the
On Thursday 08 January 2004 01:07 pm, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote:
> Great! But what does " recompile the kernel with device pcm" mean? :(
Here are some links to the handbook that should serve you well. Note that
each url should be on one line:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbo
On Thursday 08 January 2004 03:21 pm, Luca Gerli wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> just installed a new Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 on my pc (freebsd 5.2RC2),
> and did a "startx" but just got this:
>
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>(++) from command line, (!!
; not working is the 5200. I wonder if it is an AGP issue, but
> even using the Kernel AGP made no difference.
> Any other idea ? Or someone having that same card + same kernel ?
> (chipset is via kt400).
>
> Thanks, Luca.
Perhaps it's a FreeBSD 5.2RC2 thing. Remember, you'
On Thursday 08 January 2004 06:13 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote:
> While installing postgres I get the following:
>
>
> You need to create the null device in your jailed Linux environment. Run
> this
> outside the jail, then press enter:
>
> mkdir -m 0755 -p /dev
> rm -f //compat/linux/dev/null
> mknod //
d is what the
> >>system prints out when installing from the ports collection.
> >>
> >>Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> >
> >Er, what directory were you in when you did the make install? The only
> >port that produces the message below is ports/emulators/li
all
> required libraries.)
As with any other port, missing dependencies will be installed by default.
Have fun,
Andrew Gould
>
> -R
>
> Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> >Okay, so to wrap up the PostgreSQL issue:
> >
> >1. PostgreSQL does not require Linux compatibility or a ja
On Friday 09 January 2004 10:36 am, Konrad Scorciapino wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got an old computer with 2 hard disks. The first has 2GB and FreeBSD
> installed; the second, 20GB and windows installed. However, the computer's
> BIOS is quite old and doesn't detect the second hard disk, so I cannot boo
On Friday 09 January 2004 10:23 pm, Jonathan T. Sage wrote:
> Eric F Crist wrote:
> > Hello people.
> >
> > I used to think IM clients were passe and childish, until I tried to go
> > without. I found that there are a lot of business associates and friends
> > that use it, and it makes life a lot
e.
> Any other idea ? Or someone having that same card + same kernel ?
> (chipset is via kt400).
>
> Thanks, Luca.
>
> Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 January 2004 03:21 pm, Luca Gerli wrote:
> >>Hello all,
> >>
> >> just installed
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jan 09), Dru said:
> > I remember coming across a trick (which I can't find now) which
> > allowed you to page all of a file, except for the first 10 lines. I
> > think it used a combo of head and tail to achieve this. I can't just
> > u
On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:39 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Jan 09), Dru said:
> > > I remember coming across a trick (which I can't find now) which
> > > allowed you to page all of a file,
On Sunday 11 January 2004 01:55 am, Jez Hancock wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:01:22AM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:39 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > > > In the last episode (
On Sunday 11 January 2004 10:36 am, David Fleck wrote:
> 4.9-RELEASE-p1.
>
> I've installed jabber (successfully, as far as I can tell) from ports,
> cvsup'ed Jan. 10.
>
> But I can't find any documentation for it on my system, either as man
> pages, docs in /usr/local/share/doc, info pages...
>
>
On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:43 am, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 11:17:56 -0600
>
> "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A list of files that are installed by a port can be found in the
> > "pkg-plist" file of the port
On Monday 12 January 2004 05:04 pm, Xpression wrote:
> Hi list, I've making a script to write the content of three text files to
> one file, but I want to separate each files by a delimiter like the name of
> the file.
>
> This is the script:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> path=/some/dir
> if !([ -f $path/this.o
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 07:02 am, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I did not make something now and I don't have a problem with makeworld. But
> I red something in FreeBSD from scratch and I saw that some problem can
> occur and after makeworld process OS is not openinig
>
> Vahric
This
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 02:31 am, Carvalho Paulo wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>I just installed FreeBSD 4.9, and when I try to
> cofigure X through sysinstall it gives an error
> message in the end. The messege says that an error has
> ocurred and asks if I want to try again. I tried
> severa
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:19 am, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2004, at 4:45 AM, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote:
> > Hi ,
> >
> > You have to use FreeBSD 4.9, because you can see in freebsd web page
> > prodcution version is 4.9. and please test it maybe you will see you
> > can not
>
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:31 am, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote:
> Did you ever have any problem about makeworld process ?!
> I afraid of one day will come and I can't boot my FreeBSD
>
> Vahric
For me, the trickiest part was understanding and executing 'mergemaster -i'
after 'make world'. Once I go
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 01:07 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> I've been trying to create a a bootable CD using freesbie. I ran into
> problems getting that to work. It failed to boot and the same thing
> happened upon reburn.
>
> I then went to download a the 4.9 install iso to see if it was a possibl
A while ago there was an email thread regarding the possibility of burning
DVD-R's using dvd+rw-tools. My first attempt to do so failed when using a
Memorex DVD-R. Since someone else posted problems creating a bootable CD
using Memorex media, I tried again using another brand. My second atte
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 11:30 am, Goodleaf, John M wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to upgrade a system from 4.9 (Stable) to 5.2 release. I get a
> buildworld failure with aand error that reads like this:
>
> In file included from /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm.c:62:
> /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm.h:41:24:
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 09:49 pm, Nicolás de Bari Embríz G. R. wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I want to secure the network traffic of the users on my LAN, I want to
> secure the MSN and ICQ data so people on the building can't use a sniffer
> and watch the conversations.
>
> I have something like thi
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