Re: Xorg and ATI Rage-Mobility

2004-09-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 02:22:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have tried the default xorg.conf (from Xorg -configure), one that I edited, > All do the same thing - give a black screen, Me, too. > Xorg.0.log has no error messages. Me, too. > vendor = 'ATI Technologies' > de

Re: Mouse wheel on XOrg 6.7.0 (FreeBSD 5.3-beta5)

2004-09-25 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:44:46PM +0100, David Gerard wrote: > I've just installed the latest 5.3 beta with XOrg 6.7.0. > The mouse works, except I can't get the mouse wheel to work. > > The mouse section of xorg.conf is as follows: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" >

Upgrading emacs; Glib-warning, SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN and ECHILD

2012-08-08 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings FYI: On or about August 1 I upgraded emacs to V. 24.x and when running it, I found this error in a terminal: GLib-WARNING **: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status of a child process was requested but SIGCHLD action was set to SIG_IGN and ECHILD was received by waitpid(), so exit

freebsd-update: fale?

2013-01-01 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings, list. I have the following error; though I can load update5.FreeBSD.org in a browser: root-is-on-fire # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org...

Re: is csup broken?

2013-01-02 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 04:20:25PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > Have you tried checking out via SVN which now is the desired > default method (even though it's not integrated in the base > install and the "make" scripting mechanism)? ISTM that SVN is not the default method for users; but portsnap

Re: freebsd-update: fale?

2013-01-04 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:50:44PM +0100, Martin Laabs wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/02/13 01:21, Joe Altman wrote: > > Greetings, list. I have the following error; though I can load > > update5.FreeBSD.org in a browser: > > [...] > > maybe you use a release that i

Regarding: Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.

2013-01-12 Thread Joe Altman
@" is used? I imagine this sort of problem is common. Regards, Joe Altman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Regarding: Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.

2013-01-12 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 06:21:28PM -0800, Waitman Gobble wrote: >> Hi, > > If the email contact is as listed it seems there is not a specific person > who has taken the port. I found your email to the ports list with the > attached config.log. I will take a look at the problem and probably find a

Re: SPAM-flag on FBSD list

2013-01-13 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 04:48:06PM +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > > Hello, > > while testing a new mail configuration on freebsd-test@, I noticed a > very interesting part in the header, which I just paste > > Old-X-HE-Spam-Score: -2.3 > Old-X-HE-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (-

Re: Regarding: Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.

2013-01-13 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:34:30AM -0800, Waitman Gobble wrote: > > Hi, > > Yeah i think it just sends through sendmail on the local machine. You may > find it convenient to use the web interface. Your config.log says you are > running FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Oct 22 00:16:27 EDT 2012, you

Re: tar & compression

2013-01-17 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:29:55PM -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > The man page for tar command says there a 4 different compress types > you can use, xz, bzip, bzip2 and gzip. xz uses Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm. bzip2 uses Burrows-Wheeler transform. > Which one is the fastest and compresses the mo

Re: tar & compression

2013-01-17 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 03:59:39AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > It doesn't archive permissions. Which is why, if it is used, one *must* (or *should*) use tar. Best, Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE w/ SanDisk ImageMate S11202

2013-01-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:19:25PM -0800, Waitman Gobble wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Waitman Gobble wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a PCI Express card with VIA VL800 chipset which seems to work > OK with a Seagate drive, so I presume the interface is working. I think my question is rel

Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 9.1, Gnome issue

2013-01-21 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 01:02:17PM +0530, Hrisikesh sahu wrote: > > # portupgrade -fr gnome-session > > But I am facing a problem "shared object libz.so.5 not found freebsd" I see libz.so.6 in my /usr/lib on: 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r245243: Wed Jan 9 18:25:14 EST 2013 r...@whispere

Re: who am i logged in as

2013-01-27 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:01:46AM -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > > I know there is a command that will give me the name > of the account I am logged in on. > > But I can not recall the name of this command. > > What is the name of this command? whoami ___ free

Moused issues?

2007-09-22 Thread Joe Altman
Or maybe USB; I can't tell. Background: Beginning around 5 PM EDT Sept. 21 I upgraded world and rebuilt my kernel; after rebooting to install the new kernel at about 9 PM, the system panicked and tossed something like this on the console (I'm working from memory; it was late and I was tired): Fa

Re: Moused issues?

2007-09-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 05:12:45PM -0400, Nick Evans wrote: > > Try using version 1.94 of ums.c in /sys/dev/usb/. This fixes my > Razor. Newer versions don't crash on me, but the mouse attaches then > does nothing. Thank you for the suggestion, Nick; but no joy: the kernel compile fails: /usr/sr

DND in Seamonkey; GTK again?

2007-02-17 Thread Joe Altman
In January, this was widely reported: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367203 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355248 In a nutshell: Drag and drop of messages to folders broken in trunk around 2006/10/01 and gtk2 dnd implementation broken A sample error: (Gecko:7527):

Re: DND in Seamonkey; GTK again?

2007-02-17 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:34:30PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote: > DND works in Mozilla 1.7.13 Gecko/20070121. So far, I cannot figure out who maintains GTK bits, or even if that is who should hear about it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Updating exim failed

2005-09-29 Thread Joe Altman
I upgraded without issue on September 28th, at about 4 PM EDT to exim-4.53-0; it's mostly a default localhost delivery agent, so there are no special tweaks in any config files. >4. Updating exim failed (Hamza Eraldi) > > -- > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005

acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-05-17 Thread Joe Altman
The subject line contains the dmesg that indicates...something; the symptom is that CDs aren't seen by the drive: acd0: CDRW at ata1-master PIO4 uname -a FreeBSD chthonic.chthonixia.net 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Wed May 16 00:16:21 EDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CHTHONI

Re: acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-05-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:14:50AM +0300, Simon Phoenix wrote: > > I have the same error message since version 1.42.2.3 of the atapi-cam.c. > Hangs while writing media was fixed in 1.42.2.4, but this error message > not disappear. > > acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable

Re: acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-05-19 Thread Joe Altman
[NB: I'm using the archive for -questions to reply to Norbert Papke] Norbert, you do not have the same file that I have. You have: grep FBSDID /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c __FBSDID("$FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c,v 1.42.2.4 2007/05/03 09:38:54 thomas Exp $"); I have: grep -i FBSDID

Re: acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-05-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:03:31PM -0700, Norbert Papke wrote: > > Apologies. I joined the thread late and didn't pick on the specific version > you were having problems with. That's okay; I just wanted to point out that perhaps you should not update source... > Living on the edge :), I update

Re: acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-05-19 Thread Joe Altman
ner for atapi-cam.c; here is his reply: * Joe Altman, 2007-05-19 : > My apologies for disturbing you; I imagine that you are quite busy, > but I wonder if you are the thomas listed here: > > __FBSDID("$FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c,v 1.42.2.5 > 2007/05/15 > 16:19:42 thomas

Re: acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-05-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:03:31PM -0700, Norbert Papke wrote: > > Living on the edge :), I updated atapi-cam.c to 1.42.2.5 anyway. Other than > the "ILLEGAL REQUEST" error on boot, I am not experiencing any problems. I > have successfully copied a data CD using K3B. But then, I may not be te

Re:

2005-05-20 Thread Joe Altman
> 25. FreeBSD and Exim (Joe Wood) > > Message: 25 > Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 22:03:32 -0400 > From: "Joe Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: FreeBSD and Exim > > Can someone point me to a good how-to on setting up Exim on FreeBSD 5.4? > I've looked in a few places but haven't seen anything infor

Re: USB 2.0 (ehci) and Intel ICH5 in 5.4?

2005-05-25 Thread Joe Altman
> 31. USB 2.0 (ehci) and Intel ICH5 in 5.4? (Louis LeBlanc) > > -- > > Message: 31 > Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 12:24:20 -0400 > From: Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: USB 2.0 (ehci) and Intel ICH5 in 5.4? > To: FreeBSD Questions > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTEC

FreeBSD 5.1 Release, WMe, Invalid Partition Error after 5.1 install

2003-06-18 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings, listmembersif 5.1 Release questions are better on the list for current, please let me know...I'm not quite sure where the lines are in this apparently interim period. I recently performed the following act of Doh: 1) Partitioned a 30 Gig Seagate IDE under dos fdisk, allocating 8 Gi

Re: mount msdos partition with user id?

2003-06-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:31:50AM -0600, Zhang Le wrote: > Hello, > I just move from linux to bsd and have a question on mounting partition with a specific user id. The following command does not work: > root@:/home/zl/etc# mount -t msdos -o uid zl /dev/ad0s1 /d > msdos: -o uid : option not

Re: Strange netstat output

2004-11-09 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:20:03AM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote: > Hi folks, > > Recently I took notice about a strange netstat output within my LAN: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> netstat -ra > Routing tables > > Internet: > DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire > def

Re: /etc/X11/XF86Config

2004-11-15 Thread Joe Altman
My reply is inline. On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:05:34PM +0300, Susumu Tanabe wrote: > > Hello, > I want to install XF86 on my notebook > Toshiba Satellite A60. > Whioch kind of configuration file is necessary? > The following trials gave no results. >yours, Susumu Tanabe

Re: xorg/xfree86

2004-11-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:46:01PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > For FreeBSD 4.10 XFree86 is still the default. (Xorg is the default on > FreeBSD 5.x) Are you sure about this? I was under the impression that XFree86 was deprecated, and Xorg preferred; further, that this translates into Xorg be

Exim and FBSD 5.3

2004-12-01 Thread Joe Altman
I know it's an FAQ, and I know that strictly, it's likely to be a DB/Exim issue, but I've tried the proposed solution[1] to no avail. So: I have a toy; it runs FBSD 5.3 and I would like to use Exim for local and remote delivery. In my system mail, I am seeing this error: Tidying Exim hints data

Re: Exim and FBSD 5.3

2004-12-01 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:17:48PM +0100, Kees Plonsz wrote: > You guessed right, of course I am running exim without those errors: > > #exim d > > Exim version 4.42 uid=1001 gid=1001 pid=4084 D=fbb95cfd > Probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode) I notice that the FBSD version is not disp

Re: Exim and FBSD 5.3

2004-12-01 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:19:19PM +0100, Kees Plonsz wrote: > > Did your initial installation come from source, or from the CD > > package? > > I am running freebsd 5.3 release > I compiled it from the original source, not from the ports tree. > It gives me a lot of extra compiling options wich w

modules.old after an make world...

2003-07-18 Thread Joe Altman
Is there any reason to keep this directory around, after making world? -- Free the West Memphis Three http://www.wm3.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[E

Re: modules.old after an make world...

2003-07-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:02:31PM -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote: > Joe Altman wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Is there any reason to keep this directory around, after making world? > > Only if you ever think you'll need to boot kernel.old again. Meaning, > make sure

Re: How can i make dial up PPP easy? !!!

2003-07-21 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 05:04:31AM -0500, sweetleaf wrote: > I am trying to setup a friends computer with freebsd 5.1. He has used > windows for the last 5 years and has never used a unix based > computer...so i need to make things as easy and "point and click" as > possible. > He uses a dia

Re: software packages

2003-07-27 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:34:33PM -0400, david wrote: > Hi, I'm using freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series > > Since all files are downloaded to the /usr/ports/distfiles, > I would like to know which software packages belong > to what program. For example, I install mplayer and it > downloaded mplayer an

Re: Source update problems

2003-08-21 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:33:15AM +0100, geek wrote: > I have a problem to update my source! > This is my supfile: > > SRCSUPFILE: > *default host=cvsup2.freebsd.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compres

<    1   2