Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Ovens
On Sat November 27 2004 22:26, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > > Trey Sizemore wrote: > >> I've just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my desktop machine (P4 2.8GHz with > >> 512MB RAM) and cannot get my mouse pointer to move in KDE. It is a > >> Microso

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Ovens
On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the wireless > version? Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it's kind of a light > purple color ). > Yes, same as mine. You did change ''moused_port'' in /etc/rc.conf to /dev/p

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Ovens
On Sun November 28 2004 19:35, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > >On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote: > >>Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the wireless > >>version? Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it&#x

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Ovens
On Sun November 28 2004 22:22, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > >On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote: > >>Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the wireless > >>version? Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it&#x

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-29 Thread Mark Ovens
On Mon November 29 2004 02:32, Robert Huff wrote: > Trey Sizemore writes: > > OK...making some progress now. I have these entries (except I'm > > using /dev/psm0 for the time being) and now the mouse is jumping > > to the upper left corner of the screen and flickering menus > > mysteriously.

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-29 Thread Mark Ovens
On Sun November 28 2004 21:03, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > >On Sun November 28 2004 19:35, Trey Sizemore wrote: > >>Mark Ovens wrote: > >>>On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote: > >>>>Hmmm...not sure why mine's no

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-29 Thread Mark Ovens
On Mon November 29 2004 12:54, Mark Ovens wrote: > # make buildkernel && installkernel Duh! typo. That should read # make buildkernel && make installkernel Regards, Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: su problem

2006-05-25 Thread Mark Ovens
Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello If I su from user martin to root or from user martin to martin (for testing) I get this errors in /var/log/messages: [snip] May 9 11:33:08 merkur init: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal: Operation not permitted May 9 11:33:38 merkur init: can't g

Wierd time changes

2004-03-08 Thread Mark Ovens
I'm completely baffled by this one. When FreeBSD shuts down/reboots it changes the system clock. It *always* sets the hours to 20 and changes the minutes and seconds (but I haven't worked out a pattern for that), but the date stays the same (see /var/log/messages below) although I once saw it kee

Re: Wierd time changes

2004-03-08 Thread Mark Ovens
Denis R. wrote: Hi Mark and list members, I am experiencing the same problem on my dual PII-450 SP700 Compaq Pro workstation. After poking around on Google, it is pointing to the FreeBSD and a i8254 programmable interupt timer. In my case the time is lagging behind 10 times! What does your: #time

Re: Wierd time changes

2004-03-08 Thread Mark Ovens
Mark Ovens wrote: Denis R. wrote: Hi Mark and list members, I am experiencing the same problem on my dual PII-450 SP700 Compaq Pro workstation. After poking around on Google, it is pointing to the FreeBSD and a i8254 programmable interupt timer. In my case the time is lagging behind 10 times

Re: Wierd time changes

2004-03-08 Thread Mark Ovens
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Where does FreeBSD store the corrupted time across reboots though and, more importantly, why? Just to be clear; it doesn't sound like it's actually storing anything, right? The time it comes up with is roughly the

SOLVED :-) Re: Wierd time changes

2004-03-09 Thread Mark Ovens
Denis R. wrote: Hi Mark, Ok, I have recompiled my kernel and excluded the support for SMP and ACPI. Well, Denis, I've solved it and I bet you can't guess what it was - it was the fscking keyboard!!! After spending the last 8 hours building kernels (about 20) with unnecessary stuff removed and t

Re: Recycled cd's

2004-03-10 Thread Mark Ovens
Quintin Riis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That has to be worth millions! If that's the case then I can retire as I've got boxed sets of 2.0.5, 2.2.5, 2.2.7, 2.2.8, and 3.1 here :-) I've also still got two sheets of FreeBSD stickers that Walnut Creek used to send with the

Re: SOLVED :-) Re: Wierd time changes

2004-03-10 Thread Mark Ovens
Denis R. wrote: Hi Mark! Gee, who would have thought that it was the keyboard. Thanks for your ideas. I recompiled the kernel (Compaq SP700 dual PII-450) following the NOTES guidelines and your email, with these enabled: # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP

Boot CD-ROM error messages

2004-03-11 Thread Mark Ovens
Anyone know why I get the messages below when I boot with an audio CD in a drive? It looks a though FreeBSD assumes that it is a data disk and tries to read it as such. Running FreeBSD redshift 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #19: Wed Mar 10 01:50:42 GMT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj

xmms: Digital Audio Extraction not working

2004-03-11 Thread Mark Ovens
[Followup-To: set to -questions] Please excuse the X-posting but I'm not sure which is the better list for this problem. I've got 3 SCSI optical drives mounted in an external case so I can't use an analogue audion cable but need to use DAE for playing CDs. The drives support DAE as they all wo

Re: xmms: Digital Audio Extraction not working

2004-03-12 Thread Mark Ovens
Jason wrote: Are you running current? If so upgrade to a more recent version, it has been fixed. If it is the stable release try current? Thanks. So it's a FreeBSD problem rather than xmms? I wonder why xmcd works, perhaps it has a workround coded in? Regards, Mark _

Re: Building new kernel help

2004-03-12 Thread Mark Ovens
Robert Downes wrote: Darryl Hoar wrote: How do I boot the old kernel ? I built the new one with the /usr/sbin/config, make depend, make,make install sequence. make depend? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that method of kernel building. That's the "traditional" way, still works according to

Re: How can I know if modem is detected?

2004-03-12 Thread Mark Ovens
Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: Hi, I just purchased a serial Dlink modem and I would like to know if my FreeBSD 4.9 is detecting it. How can I be sure? Thanks ... Assuming you've got the psuedo-device tun compiled into your kernel (it's in GENERIC by default) you can use ppp(8): $ ppp ppp ON > set dev

5.2.1-R == CURRENT????

2004-03-12 Thread Mark Ovens
Surely not? I was advised that a problem I'm experiencing is fixed in -current. I just updated my source tree to -current with ''cvs co src/'' but no files have been updated :-/ Here's what I'm currently running (the tree is a few days older than the kernel build date): FreeBSD redshift 5.2.1-

Re: resizing partitions in the same slice

2004-03-12 Thread Mark Ovens
BTW, some places have recommended commercial solution like Norton Ghost or Partition Magic. Do these products work on FreeBSD's UFS format and grok partitions-in-a-slice? Partition Magic only manipulates slices and does not know anything about partitions within slices - especially FreeBSD partitio

Re: 5.2.1-R == CURRENT????

2004-03-12 Thread Mark Ovens
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 07:51:48PM +, Mark Ovens wrote: Surely not? I was advised that a problem I'm experiencing is fixed in -current. I just updated my source tree to -current with ''cvs co src/'' but no files have been updated :-/ Did you

Re: 5.2.1-R == CURRENT????

2004-03-13 Thread Mark Ovens
Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 01:00:38AM +, Mark Ovens wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 07:51:48PM +, Mark Ovens wrote: Surely not? I was advised that a problem I'm experiencing is fixed in -current. I just updated my source tree to -current with

Re: 5.2.1-R == CURRENT????

2004-03-13 Thread Mark Ovens
Mark Ovens wrote: I'll try pulling a new tree using CVSup instead. That did the trick; I zapped src/ and ports/ and started again with CVSup (pulling the trees directly, prefix=/usr, rather than via a local repository). Thanks again. Regards, Mark Thanks for your help guys. Regards,

Re: xmms: Digital Audio Extraction not working

2004-03-13 Thread Mark Ovens
Mark Ovens wrote: Jason wrote: Are you running current? If so upgrade to a more recent version, it has been fixed. If it is the stable release try current? Thanks. So it's a FreeBSD problem rather than xmms? I wonder why xmcd works, perhaps it has a workround coded in? Hmmm, I'

Re: Why .tgz packages for 4.x

2004-03-15 Thread Mark Ovens
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:48:30PM +0200, Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote: Don't you know why 4.x packages're distributed tar gzipped for 4.x? pkg_(?:add|update) understands both .tgz/.tbz but the last saves ~20% of my time & money while downloading from mirror 1) Please wrap your li

Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Mark Ovens
Jerry McAllister wrote: I'm with you... Top-posting makes the most sense for me. No, it is like reading all the answers and then being handed the questions. I know some college students like to function A. Top posters Q. What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? QED Mark __

Dual booting FreeBSD and Linux using GRUB fails

2008-08-22 Thread Mark Ovens
I have an all-SCSI system with FreeBSD 6.3 on one disk and 7.0 on the other. It booted using GRUB and worked OK. I installed Mandriva Linux on the disk that had 7.0 on it (replacing 7.0) The setup now is: SCSI ID 15 73GB /dev/sda - running FreeBSD SCSI ID 14 36GB /dev/sdb - Mandriva The devic

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