General questions regarding FreeBSD 10

2013-09-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
General questions regarding FreeBSD 10: 1. Did virtualization containers (VPS) make it into FreeBSD 10? The documentation I’ve read implies that you can have nested containers, with little to no performance penalty, is this correct? How is networking handled inside these containers? 2. I'm assumi

Re: Value too large to be stored in data type -- gzipped tarball

2005-12-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 12/18/05, TuxGirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a gzipped tarball that I created on my box when i was running > Linux, and I burned it, along with some other files, onto a dvd. I'm > now trying to extract the tarball, but it appears that it must be over > some sort of filesystem limit or

Re: Value too large to be stored in data type -- gzipped tarball

2005-12-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 12/18/05, TuxGirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a gzipped tarball that I created on my box when i was running > > > Linux, and I burned it, along with some other files, onto a dvd. I'm > > > now trying to extract the tarball, but it appears that it must be over > > > some sort of file

Re: Value too large to be stored in data type -- gzipped tarball

2005-12-19 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 12/18/05, TuxGirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is nothing wrong with tar and large files, it's synonymous with > > what tar is used for. I think your problem is just a Linux tar to > > FreeBSD tar quirk. I had no problems with the 3.3GB testfile I made > > for tar and gzip to play with:

Re: Video / Audio Capture Framework in FreeBSD ?

2005-12-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 12/19/05, Roshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list. > Does anyone know if there will be a Video / Audio capture framework > that will be part of FreeBSD in the next few years ? > I currently use the bktr device for image capture, but it would be > nice if there was some kind of interface t

Re: getting an old server up to scratch...

2005-12-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 12/20/05, Jeff D. Hamann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to build a new server and I've gotten to stage where I can > start moving some of the data over from the old server. In the process I've > decided to move my version control software from cvs to svn and have been > using svn

Re: Can you run Xen on FreeBSD?

2005-12-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 12/20/05, Kevin Crenshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xen supports installation on Red Hat and Suse Linux. Does this mean that > Xen will run on FreeBSD using linux binary compatibility? Does anyone have > a recommendation for Virtualization software to run on FreeBSD? > I don't see why not,

Re: Hardware supported

2005-12-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 12/20/05, Aguiar Magalhaes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I´d like to known if the external tape drive DAT USB > 2.0 (HP or other) is supported in FreeBSD 6.0 AMD64 > bits > > I couldn´t get any information about it > USB?, Probably not. Check the hardware notes pages: http://www.fr

Re: Can you run Xen on FreeBSD?

2005-12-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 12/20/05, Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Crenshaw wrote: > > Xen supports installation on Red Hat and Suse Linux. Does this mean that > > Xen will run on FreeBSD using linux binary compatibility? Does anyone have > > a recommendation for Virtualization software to run on FreeBSD? > >

Re: getting an old server up to scratch...

2005-12-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 12/20/05, Jeff D. Hamann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the result after a cvsup attempt using the following cvsupfile: > > stimpy# cd /etc > stimpy# cat cvsupfile > *default host=cvsup5.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs > *default tag=RELE

Re: umass detected, but da is never created

2006-01-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 12/24/05, Philip Lykke Carlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this external harddisk kit, and when I plug it in, the system correctly > recognizes it as a umass.. but afterwards, the da device is never created.. > > this is what I get from the console: > > umass0: vendor 0x05e3 USB TO IDE,

Re: umass detected, but da is never created

2006-01-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/2/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/24/05, Philip Lykke Carlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have this external harddisk kit, and when I plug it in, the system > > correctly > > recognizes it as a umass.. but afterwards, the da devic

Re: Kernel Compilation...

2006-01-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/3/06, Crispy Beef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:15:48PM +, Crispy Beef wrote: > > > >>Hi All, > >> > >>Just joined this list. The last time I used FreeBSD was with 4.6-RELEASE, > >>so a while ago now. I have just installed 6.0-RELEASE on

Re: Trivial question on an irritating "feature"

2006-01-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/4/06, Leslie Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > I'm using KDE and my problem is that when I want to finish and shutdown > my PC, I use the little red button "log out" and there is only the > choice of ending the current session and it only takes me back to the > log in dialog. I woul

Re: Kernel Compilation...

2006-01-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/4/06, Crispy Beef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > To rule out hardware problems rebuild the generic kernel using the > > virgin GENERIC kernel config file: > > > > 0. If you've messed with /etc/make.conf change it back to the defa

Re: Kernel Compilation...

2006-01-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/4/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/4/06, Crispy Beef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > To rule out hardware problems rebuild the generic kernel using the > > > virgin GENERIC kernel config file: > > &g

Signatures needed, petition for native Flash player.

2006-01-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hello all, I need everyone on the lists to go sign the petition for Macromedia to make a FreeBSD native version of their Flash player. I also need everyone to help spread the word so we can get more sigs. http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html Discussion of this topic should take p

What do I use for DRI / DRM in X?

2006-01-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
I'm a bit confused as to what's needed to get DRI / DRM working in Xorg. AFAIK we have 3 ways to do it; We have the DRM device in the kernel, dri-6.2.1,2 (For XFree86?) in the ports system, and Xorg seems to have it's own version too. What do I need and what don't I need for DRI / DRM in Xorg? Th

Re: Problems with X11 Forwarding

2006-01-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/15/06, Aaron Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought this might be the best place to post the question. I am > running FreeBSD5.4-RELEASE. For the sake of argument, let's say I am > trying to get the port editors/fte running on my Windows box via an SSH > tunnel. I am running WindowsX

Re: VT8235 Power Management Controller driver?

2006-01-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/14/06, Ivailo Bonev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is FreeBSD 6-STABLE have "VT8235 Power Management Controller" driver? What to > insert in kernel to compile it? Or maybe have another way to switch it on? > > device iicbb device iicbus device iicsmb device smbus device smb device viapm

Re: canned distribution's i86 disk space requirements?

2006-01-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/13/06, Kael Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all: > > I am curious as to the disk space requirements of the various "canned > distribution sets" on i86 hardware. > > While the following excerpt from the Handbook > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.ht

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/17/06, Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The computer is currently without keyboard, mouse or monitor. I am > > adding applications to the computer via ssh while I work. As soon as I > > get openbox and tightvnc installed, I'll switch to tightvnc so I can > > disconnect without

Best time of day/week to cvsup?

2006-01-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
For example, what time of day, and the day of the week, is typically the best time to sync up with 6-STABLE or 7-CURRENT, to minimize dealing with untested new commits. Same goes for the ports system. Are there any cvs usage stats or web server usage stats for the FreeBSD project? I'd like to setu

Re: Release schedule for 6.1

2006-01-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/25/06, Foo Ji-Haw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > FBSD 6.0 is a momentuous milestone for the FreeBSD community. I'd like to > know when can we expect 6.1 to arrive? > That's Release Engineering's department: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html If you look on that page FreeBSD

Re: Answering machine / voicemail --> email?

2006-01-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/29/06, Nick Triantos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running a decently fast server with FreeBSD 5.4. I'd like to set up > a way that the box can act as a voicemail server, and turn the messages into > emails. > > I see Asterisk as a possible solution, but it seems awfully heavyw

Re: GENERIC freebsd 5.4

2006-01-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/30/06, serge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I have compiled a kernel but it is not loaded. In a manual it is written that > after > installation is formed two catalogues /boot/kernel and /boot/kernel.old. > But it has not taken place. My actions: > > # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > # mkdi

Re: Source upgrade in FreeBSD 5.4

2006-01-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/30/06, Jose Borquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When performing an upgrade after doing a minimal install of FreeBSD 5.4, > I would like to upgrade the source using the stable-supfile. In the > supfile I have the option to do a "src-all" update or to specify from > the following: > What are t

Re: CPU Frequency on FreeBSD 5.4 and MSVS 2005 R2

2006-01-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/30/06, Tamouh H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been able to run couple of successful tests installing FreeBSD 4.x and > 5.x on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 , however, I've noticed for some reason > FreeBSD is not detecting the actual CPU speed: > > --- > FreeBS

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2006-02-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 01 Feb 2006 12:10:01 -0500, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > martinko writes: > > > > > $ cat /usr/local/etc/javavms > > > > Will someone please confirm that once these > > > > > /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java # FREEBSD-JDK1.5.0 > >

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2006-02-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/1/06, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nikolas Britton writes: > > > So what your saying is that once you have a native jdk built and > > installed (say 1.4.2) you can compile the native jdk15 port with > > the native jdk14 port and not need the

(OpenOffice2 build failure) ERROR: Shared object "libmawt.so" not found

2006-02-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hi, I'm trying to build the OpenOffice 2 port and I get the errors below. My make options are: "nice +20 make JAVA_VERSION=1.5 WITH_KDE=yes install" My System: FreeBSD infomatic.intranet 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 16 00:35:00 CST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compil

Re: (OpenOffice2 build failure) ERROR: Shared object "libmawt.so" not found

2006-02-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
t, but where do I put it for the OOo build to find it? On 2/1/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to build the OpenOffice 2 port and I get the errors > below. My make options are: "nice +20 make JAVA_VERSION=1.5 > WITH_KDE=yes install" &g

Re: Java without Motif/X?

2006-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/1/06, Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Triantos wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Has anyone successfully gotten Java (1.4 or 1.5) running on FreeBSD > > without Motif/X? I'd like to run a gui-less Java app on my server, and > > would strongly prefer to not install all of X + Motif, and al

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/3/06, Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Björn König wrote: > > Garrett Cooper schrieb: > > > Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there > > > should be a noticeable difference. > > > > The noticeable difference is that

Re: Best way to partition a small HD

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/25/03, Gunnar Flygt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an old Toshiba laptop with 24MB of RAM and 500MB HD. > > What is the best way of partitioning this disk for 4.7-RELEASE > or later? > > Should I use 450MB for / and the rest for swap or should I > bother splitting the partition with / /us

Re: Need advice re SCSI

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/31/06, je killen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all; > I have installed an LSI Logic SCSI adapter card and have attached to it > two 18GB Maxtor 15k SCSI hard drives. > These drives are 80 pin drives and I have obtained adapter boards to > convert the 80 pin connectors to 68 pin ribbon > c

Re: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long?

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/1/06, Xn Nooby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I've gone back to the "old foolproof way" of updating my system, I'm > doing a "portsdb -Uu" again - which has always taken forever to run on my > various machines. Is there a way to speed it up (without replacing it), or > has anyone looked a

Re: Promise SATAII150 TX2plus ok for 6.0?

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/1/06, Ville Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > being quite fed up with the crappy Sil3512 SATA-controller on my > mainboard (write_dma timeouts, and just when I thought 6.0-release fixed > it, "setfeatures set transfer mode semaphore timeout"-messages is > filling my screens), I'm l

Re: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long?

2006-02-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/4/06, Xn Nooby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It just does, after you cvsup new ports cd into /usr/ports and type > > make fetchindex. what way is the "old foolproof way"? > > > > Here is how I update my system (without using a 'make fetchindex') > > cvsup -g -L 2 /root/stable-supfile >

What's the bright idea? fam -> gamin

2006-02-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I portupgrade? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: What's the bright idea? fam -> gamin

2006-02-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/6/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back > > to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I > > portupgrade? &g

Re: motherboard recommendations for 6.0

2006-02-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/3/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's time to set up another box to act as file server and I'm at the > crucial motherboard-choice stage. I'm looking for recommendations for an > i386 single-cpu mid-price board that work well with FreeBSD 6.0-stable. I > don't see the point in buying

Re: recoll and other desktop indexing/search utilities

2006-02-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/6/06, lyubich_freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for a desktop indexing/searching utility. At the moment, I am > trying recoll. > > Are there also other tools with the same functions? > (e.g., in kde ore gnome suits). > Beagle, but it's not in the ports system yet. a

Re: Windows XP and FreeBSD boot Question

2006-02-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group%3A*.freebsd.*+boot.ini+dual&qt_s=Search On 2/16/06, Chris Maness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had a bad time trying to get Windows XP to boot using the FreeBSD > boot manager. Is there a way I can use the XP boot manager to boot > FreeBSD. I use it

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/17/06, Xn Nooby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x, > ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so I > can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast, > though I would prolly wa

Re: Increase process number in FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/22/06, Thawan Kooburat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi >I am using FreeBSD 6.0. My course assignment required me to > increase process number running on a system. >I have already modify /boot/loader.conf on following parameters > > kern.maxusers = 384 > kern.maxproc = 5

Re: Upgrading Apache

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/22/06, andreis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > Could you please help us to find out if it is possible to upgrade 10.3.29 > Apache to the latest 10.3.x version through FreeBSD RELENG_5_4 ports? If so, > any hints as to how to find the right ports would be greatly appreciated. > Apache ver

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/22/06, Alex Mayfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm rather new to FreeBSD, and have been wanting to try it out. However, > I am unable to boot from either the i386 6.0-RELEASE bootonly or the i386 > 6.0-RELEASE disc 1 CD. I'm running an Athlon 64 3000+ on a WinFast > 755FXK8AA motherboard

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/23/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > >Your not using the right install CDs. You have an AMD 64-Bit chip so > >you can't (AFAIK) use the I386 Release. Maybe there is a setting in > >the BIOS for I386 compat, I have no

Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/23/06, Jayesh Jayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All are Dell Poweredge servers with identical specification. > > I did check the message logs an couldn't find any problem > > What are the other aspects which I need to check so as to find a solution. > I've had FreeBSD 5.4 randomly reboot on

Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/23/06, Jayesh Jayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was valuable in deed > > The 12 server are all identical but the problem is that the test machine > which we will be using is not of the same class as that of the server. > > Then all the server run a custom built kernel and not the ge

Re: 10 years of "The Complete FreeBSD"

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/23/06, Tillman Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:30:27AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication > > the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, "Installing and > > Using FreeBSD". It wa

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/24/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Mayfield wrote: > > > I have tried both the 6.1 and 5.4 CD's, both of them bombing at the > > exact same point the 6.0 boot failed. I'll try 5.5 sometime tomorrow, > > though I kinda doubt it would make a difference. Is there anything > >

Re: release in cvsup supfile

2006-02-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/24/06, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey people, > > I notice that in my supfile, I have this: > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.4. Should I change the tag to 5.4-RELEASE? I don't want > ports that aren't going to work on 5.4. Is that a concern? > No, bu

Re: release in cvsup supfile

2006-02-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/24/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now install FreeBSD, delete the old slices first with fdisk and don't > install X11, the only package you should install is cvsup-without-gui. > After FreeBSD is installed run cvsup to get all the new ports,

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting > from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running > FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD). > I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer. > Th

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > >On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting > >>from USB f

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dmitri Pisarev wrote: > > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > >> On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(n

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/27/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped] > Click on Browse > Find and Select: 6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.1/6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso > That should be disc 1, sorry: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBS

Re: elinks-0.11.1: "make install" fails

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot install a port elinks-0.11.1. > > make > works perfectly, but > make install > fails. > > An output of > make install > is attached. > > The first error is in line 251. > > #include > in file core.c cannot find the file ruby.h. > The file ruby.h

Re: freebsd distributor

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/27/06, Linux Distro UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, i would like to know if you could add me to your list of > distributors as we distribute FreeBSD > > Our url is http://www.linux-distro.co.uk > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > we are based in the UK but do offer international shippin

Re: elinks-0.11.1: "make install" fails

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:10:41AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > On 2/28/06, a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I cannot install a port elinks-0.11.1. > > > [snipped] > > > > > >

Re: regarding new logo...

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, Kristian Vaaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You like the logo? > > Speaking as a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts, on behalf > of myself and a lot of other designers, the new FreeBSD logo is worthless. > > It's useless eyecandy. As if we don't have enough of that already. > > The

Re: release tag for ports

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Another FreeBSD Newbie question pertaining to ports. > > based on the example ports-supfile > in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile > > [snip] > *default release=cvs tag=. > [/snip] > > What I would like to know if there are any

Re: System Burn In

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, Don O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the best way to 'burn in' or 'stress test' a new system w/ FreeBSD? > I'd like to stress test the CPU, Memory, Disk, etc.. To make sure the > hardware is 100% good before putting it in production. > Maybe try http://www.holm.cc/stress/ bu

Re: elinks-0.11.1: "make install" fails

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does links support Java-script? > As a matter of fact, yes. I compared this javascript test page* in both links and firefox, both did everything correctly. * http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/GO/EXPLORIT/java/IntroJavaScript.html Also Links 2 can do color at t

Re: System Burn In

2006-03-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/28/06, Don O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the best way to 'burn in' or 'stress test' a new system w/ FreeBSD? > > I'd like to stress test the CPU, Memory, Disk

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snipped] > > Why not happy? Transfer rates from 53 to 92Mb/s, give or take; what's > wrong with that? On a plain sata disk I get: > > Seek times: > Full stroke: 250 iter in 4.717248 sec = 18.869 msec > Half stroke:

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > >This and all the other benchmarks you've run are useless. Run a real > >benchmark like iozone. It's in ports under benchmarks/iozone. > >http://www.iozone.org/ > > >

Re: FreeBSD CD

2006-03-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/2/06, Tamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sir, FreeBSD CDs should be distributed freely. There are two reasons for > that: > 1. People either buy Windows CD or burns Linux CDs from computer magazines. > Those magazines distribute Fedora Core, Slackware but never distributes > FreeBSD. It'

Re: FreeBSD CD

2006-03-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/3/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/2/06, Tamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sir, FreeBSD CDs should be distributed freely. There are two reasons for > > that: > > 1. People either buy Windows CD or burns Linux CDs from computer magazine

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/3/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > >>Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent > >>this email "to" me, and left only my name in the attributions as if I > >>wer

Re: How do you mount a floppy?

2006-03-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/3/06, Jose Borquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you add a floppy device and then mount a floppy in FreeBSD? > Mount a floppy?? http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group%3A*.freebsd.*&; http://www.freebsd.org/

Re: How do you mount a floppy?

2006-03-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/3/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/3/06, Jose Borquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do you add a floppy device and then mount a floppy in FreeBSD? > > > Mount a floppy?? > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ > http://www.lem

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/5/06, Beastie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 3/3/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent this > email "to" me, an

Sending error messages to a cell phone?

2006-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
I have an email address setup for my cell phone and I would like FreeBSD to send critical error messages to this address. How do I tell FreeBSD to do this and more importantly should I do this, because it costs 10 cents for each message? -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ _

Re: Few thunderbird questions

2006-03-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/17/06, Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steel City Phantom wrote: > > ok, bsd 6, kde 3.5, thunderbird 1.5, firefox 1.5 > > > > few things that are slightly annoying in thunderbird that if someone > > knows how to fix, i would be very happy. > > > > 1) when i click on a url link in thu

KDE App Launcher

2006-03-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
How do I get KDE to run this command: setenv SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE 0; setenv QEMU_AUDIO_DRV sdl; nice +5 qemu -soundhw es1370 ~/qemu/win98se/win98se_disk.img& or this: export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0; export QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=sdl ; nice +5 nohup qemu -soundhw es1370 ~/qemu/win98se/win98se_disk.img

Re: KDE App Launcher

2006-03-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/24/06, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> For /bin/sh, you can't export a variable on the line you set it; that's an > >> extension found in bash, ksh, and zsh, but is not part of the original sh: > > > > It is, how

ssh session hangs when term is flooded with text.

2006-03-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
When I log into any FreeBSD box through the VPN (IPsec site-to-site) my ssh session will eventually hang when a large amount of text/data is displayed, for example compiler output, running top, running links or lynx, etc. Obviously this is a networking problem but I'm not sure where to start. --

Re: Deleting Kernel conpile directory

2006-03-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 30 Mar 2006 09:40:03 -0500, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am running a little low on disk space in /usr > > > > Can I delete the /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/mykernel directory? > > Sure. And if you use the "buildkernel" method when yo

Can't fetch tiff-3.8.1.tar.gz

2006-04-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
I can't fetch tiff-3.8.1.tar.gz from any of the mirrors listed in the port. -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Re: BEWARE upgrading Horde System

2006-04-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/9/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snipped] > > I have never understood the demand for being able to do an inplace > upgrade of applications or of the operating system, and I've seen > enormous trouble with servers that people do this with, under Windows > as well as FreeBSD.

Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...

2006-04-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/30/06, Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realise the answer to this question is "when it's ready", but does anyone > have a rough idea how close to being ready 6.1 is? > The 6.1 branch was cut on the 5th, this means you can cvsup to RELENG_6_1 branch and rebuild wo

Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...

2006-04-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/11/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I beg to differ Nikolas, there is still work that needs to be > done on the disk driver. See PR 95184. It was right to shift the > release schedule. > > I don't know what you running for hardware but I don't think many > people really appr

Re: 6.1-PRERELEASE CVSUP tag=???

2006-04-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/11/06, Daniel Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:25:25PM -0600, Bryan Curl wrote: > > What is the cvsup tag for getting 6.1-PRERELEASE src? > > > > I think it should be tag=RELENG_6_1 . > > > > Can I use src-all for this revision to upgrade from where I am now? > > >

Re: 6.1-PRERELEASE CVSUP tag=???

2006-04-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, Bryan Curl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Bye wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:56:46PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > >> the branch for 6.1 was cut on the 5th, you can cvsup to 6.1 now using > >> the RELENG_6_1 tag... > >>

Re: 6.1-PRERELEASE CVSUP tag=???

2006-04-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, Daniel Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:56:46PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > the branch for 6.1 was cut on the 5th, you can cvsup to 6.1 now using > > the RELENG_6_1 tag... > > Oh yeah, so it was. Missed that, thanks. > &g

Re: Problem compiling KOffice

2006-04-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 17:04, Ashley Moran wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 16:15, Ashley Moran wrote: > > > I'm not having much luck today... > > > > > > I just tried updating my KOffice and got this error: > > > > > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -

Re: 6.1-PRERELEASE CVSUP tag=???

2006-04-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/12/06, Daniel Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:56:46PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > the branch for 6.1 was cut on the 5th, you can cvsup to 6.1 now using > > >

Re: Wanted: Flash player for ....

2006-04-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 02:37, Eric Schuele wrote: > > Either way... I hope somehow they see fit to loosen the language a bit > > in the future. > > Can't we petition Adobe somehow? I'm a bit stuck now - my company's main > application is wr

Re: Problem compiling KOffice

2006-04-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 16:15, Ashley Moran wrote: > > I'm not having much luck today... > > > > I just tried updating my KOffice and got this error: > > [snipped] > > Has it really not been fixed in all this time? Has anyone here made KOffi

Re: 6.1-PRERELEASE CVSUP tag=???

2006-04-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> Subject: Re: 6.1-PRERELEASE CVSUP tag=??? > >> > >> > >> Daniel Bye wrote: > >> > >>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:56:46PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > >>> > >>> >

Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: Problem compiling KOffice

2006-04-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/13/06, Michael Nottebrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolas Britton schrieb: > > On 4/12/06, Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 16:15, Ashley Moran wrote: > >>> I'm not having much luck today... > >&

Re: Wanted: Flash player for ....

2006-04-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/12/06, Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 02:37, Eric Schuele wrote: > > > Either way... I hope somehow they see fit to loosen the language a bit > > > in the

Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: Problem compiling KOffice

2006-04-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/14/06, Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 14, 2006, at 10:15 am, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > Hello Ashley, > > > > Did you see this part? > > > > Has it really not been fixed in all this time? > >>> This isn't an error in KOffice - take a look at the actual > >>> proble

Clicks and Pops playing music.

2004-12-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
After switching my main box from windows to freebsd I have notice a shit load of clicks and pops when playing my mp3s. I have have a relatively nice sound system setup on my computer (SoundBlaster Live!, high end Yamaha 2.1 speaker system, and my mp3s encode at 150KB VBR) and this is really ann

Re: Clicks and Pops playing music.

2004-12-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
Jorge Mario G. wrote: --- Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: After switching my main box from windows to freebsd I have notice a shit load of clicks and pops when playing my mp3s. I have have a relatively nice sound system setup on my computer (SoundBlaster Live!, high end

Re: Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
In FreeBSD 5.3 you can change the buffersize by adding hint.pcm.0.buffersize="foo" to /boot/loader.conf, have you try'ed this with 4.x? Sandy Rutherford wrote: Is it possible to change the sysctl variable hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize (DMA buffer size for the soundcard) in FreeBSD 4.10? I know that in

generating synthetic interrupt load

2004-12-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
How does one go about generating heavy interrupt loads? Running bonnie and nbench (at the same time) does not seem to be able to do it because when I look a systat (iostat) it shows no interrupt load. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.free

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