Re: xmms crashing at startup

2007-10-04 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:46:36 -0400 Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manolis Kiagias writes: > > > I believe this started after upgrading to Xorg-7.3: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmms > > Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) > >serial 1492 error_code 8 request_co

Re: xmms crashing at startup (Solved)

2007-10-04 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:52:41 -1000 Robert Marella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:46:36 -0400 > Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Manolis Kiagias writes: > > > > > I believe this started after upgrading to Xorg-7.3

Re: xmms crashing at startup (Solved)

2007-10-04 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 23:35:10 -0400 Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In the time honored FreeBSD tradition of answering my own email, > > I have XMMS working again. > > > > I moved the .xmms directory in my home directory to old.xmms and > > started XMMS again. Low and behold i

Re: canceling all jobs in cups

2007-10-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:58:33 + "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am used to using cups via the web interface... well a user > accidentally printed 1000 jobs and I have had to shut the printer down > until they are all canceled... the question is how can I do this > without cl

Re: extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

2007-10-31 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:29:21 + spellberg_robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > greetings --- > > i finally ran into a situation where >my existing approaces are no longer satisfactory. > > > is this "abiword" one of them or do i seek something else ? > Aloha Rob I have been using abiwor

One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-11 Thread Robert Marella
Aloha FreeBSD Users I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV http://xogiving.org/ Have a very good day Robert

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:04:04 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very > > strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is > > offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well > >

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:56:34 -0500 Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem I have always had with this is computer use does > not exist in a vacuum; it changes, and is changed by, the society in > which it happens. > If I look at the countries of the "first world", I see

Re: Basically: why such troubles with KDE audio?

2007-11-23 Thread Robert Marella
: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:36:40 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 03:47:45PM +, RW wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:34:31 -0800 > > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: CD/DVD writer no longer works

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:34:01 -0600 Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The result of this command doesn't change if there's a known good CD > in the drive. And are you saying that the *device* appears to be > bad? Or the *driver* appears to be bad? Is there a way to confirm > this (utili

Re: USB printer

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Marella
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:14:20 -0400 Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know, while there are printing utils that actually work on > FreeBSD, I can't personally recommend CUPS. I keep on trying to get > it to work on FreeBSD efvery year or so, then I need to go over to > one of my other

portmanager core dumps

2006-01-08 Thread Robert Marella
Good Afternoon At times when in a hurry or not thinking as fast as my fingers, I try to run "portupgrade -s | grep OLD" from a regular user account instead of "sudo portupgrade -s | grep OLD". I would expect portupgrade to insult my intelligence and question my heritage or is that question

Re: 10 years of "The Complete FreeBSD"

2006-02-23 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:30:27 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 was later renamed to "The Complete FreeBSD". > > I

Re: Motherboard for new Socket 939 fileserver

2006-03-15 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:42:45 -0800 Andrew Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been tasked with setting up a new FreeBSD network file server. > I've been spending the last day fighting an ASUS A8N-VM CSM > motherboard, and I've given up on that hopeless battle. The ACPI is > ho

ndis error

2006-03-29 Thread Robert Marella
Hello All I recently received a D-Link DWL-G510 network card. I ran ndisgen as I have done before with other cards and all seemed to go well. A kernel module, MRV8K51_sys.ko was generated. When manually loading the module I received the following: # kldload MRV8K51_sys no match for _except_handl

Re: when to use 'Portupgrade -R'

2004-12-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Friday 10 December 2004 14:54, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I've run into some problems using 'portupgrade -R' so I'm wondering if just > using 'portupgrade' is good enough in most cases. I don't want a port to > be upgraded without NECESSARY dependencies, but I don't want minor upgrades > done

Re: Question about FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-22 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:56:11 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 5.3-STABLE is a moving target from the RELENG_4 development branch. > It should run stably and it can be used usefully as a desktop system > or whatever, but tracking -STABLE is not recommended for *absolutely h

NFS export of evolution

2005-01-09 Thread Robert Marella
Hello I am not sure where this problem should go so I am posting to -questions. I have a SOHO set up with several computers running a mix of FreeBSD 5.3 Release and Stable. I have an NFS server set up so that data can be shared at all of the computers. I would like to have the ability to retrie

Re: NFS export of evolution

2005-01-10 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:01 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Robert Marella wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am not sure where this problem should go so I am posting to > > -questions. > > > > I have a SOHO set up with several computers running a mix of FreeBSD 5.

Re: NFS export of evolution-SOLVED

2005-01-10 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:04 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Robert Marella wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:01 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > > > >>Robert Marella wrote: > >> > >>>Hello > >>> > >>>I am not sure where this probl

Re: NFS export of evolution

2005-01-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 10:38 +, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:43:05PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: > > > > I have a SOHO set up with several computers running a mix of FreeBSD 5.3 > > Release and Stable. I have an NFS server set up so that data can be >

Re: usbd: Executing umount: Device not configured

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Marella
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 21:41 -0500, Alexander Anderson wrote: > Greetings all, > > I have a Sony DSC-P32 digital camera with a USB interface. I can't get > usbd to unmount the camera when it's disconnected, powered off, or > detached. > > I have to remember to execute umount(8) manually before the

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:17 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Assuming one doesn't have the resources to do this, what might one do to > secure disk drives before disposal. I live in Kona on the "Big Island of Hawai`i". One mile from shore the water is over 4000 feet. Send your hard drives and

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 21:45 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Robert Marella wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:17 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > > >>Assuming one doesn't have the resources to do this, what might one do to > >>secure disk drives before di

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-28 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 21:15 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > RacerX writes: > > > The hardware has ran for over 8 years - you don't think that after 8 years > > its going to show wear and tear? I do/would. > > It's not going to suddenly fail on the very day and hour that I install > FreeBSD. >

Re: If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade?

2005-03-13 Thread Robert Marella
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:40 pm, Chris wrote: Chris Hodgins wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:05 pm, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: If I just do: cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile && portmanager -u Do I need portupgrade at all then? Thanks. Not for upgradi

Re: Question: USB block dev, Olympus Camedia digital camera

2005-03-19 Thread Robert Marella
Peer Böhm wrote: Hello everyone, I am new to BSD-style operating systems, and currently reading about and seriously considering a migration from Linux to free BSD on my home machine. Before I do that, I would like to make sure (as far as possible) that my critical applications will continue to work

Re: NIC won't DHCP or configure

2005-03-22 Thread Robert Marella
Charles Swiger wrote: On Mar 21, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: *If I'm wrong, it's Chuck's fault, heh heh It's always my fault, even when it's not my fault. (I must have done something. What did I do, again? :-) I can take the pressure off of you Chuck. Call 1-900-BLAME-ME. Fifty ce

ipflog entries?

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Marella
Greetings My daily mail on my firewall (5.3-rel-p4) has always shown many (> 1) blocks by my blocking rule "block in quick on em0 from 10.0.0.0/8 to any". Obviously I'm using ipf/ipnat. So, for education, today I enabled "log" for a short time on that rule. Within a few minutes I logged ov

Re: ipflog entries?

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Marella
Danny Pansters wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:05, Robert Marella wrote: Greetings My daily mail on my firewall (5.3-rel-p4) has always shown many (> 1) blocks by my blocking rule "block in quick on em0 from 10.0.0.0/8 to any". Obviously I'm using ipf/ipnat. So, for

Re: Realtek RTL8100C

2005-01-27 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 10:29 +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:36:35 +0100, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And you don't want that distorsion, right? > > > > > > Then I must ask you this, why do you set the volume to 75 > > > if you get distorsion at that level? > >

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 23:05 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > When I search for my name, I'm in competition with a wrestler - really > anoying, Deja Vu all over again. Who is Gorilla Monsoon and why is google filled up with him when I search my name. ;)

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 05:52 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Mike Hauber writes: > The cat is being pushed back into the bag rather rapidly. The legal > profession was slow to apply the law to the Internet, but it is learning > fast. To paraphrase the "Bard" "The first thing we do, let's kill

RE: favor

2005-02-07 Thread Robert Marella
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 15:38 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Sorry if I offended anyone with my previous post re: freebsd-legal mail list. I just feel that all being discussed after the first 20 or so was 3 or 4 individuals expressing their opinions to each other. I _firmly_ believe that all hav

Re: Electricity bill - OT

2005-02-07 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 17:01 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I don't know where the rest is going, but I suspect that > an aging electric water heater is consuming more than all the computer > equipment combined. I put a timer on my hot water heater and only run it a couple of hours per day.

FreeBSD Logo

2005-02-10 Thread Robert Marella
Many companies do change their logos (see link). Logos tend to evolve over time and as the world changes. Our world (software-wise) is definitely changing. If we want FreeBSD to exist in the future then change is inevitable. http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/bell_logos.html The open source slice

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 08:00 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > Someone said people change logos all the time. That's flat out wrong. > When a company spends mucho dinero on marketing their logo, they don't > just flip around and decide to change their logo that they spent so > much money and

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 21:31 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > What if they put it > to a vote and the userbase all votes for logos that clearly > represent the Beastie image? What will have been the point of > the contest? I am a FreeBSD user. I read and sometimes respond to several of the lis

Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 23:12 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > > Why in the world should I expect to be able to vote on whether a new > > logo is adopted or not? > > > > I will tell you exactly why and it is one of the most exciting reasons > to use FreeBSD. > > It is EVERYONE WHO CONTRIB

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 18:25 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > athony atkielski =~ /tm452\d/ ? > > I was beginning to suspect some such. > Maybe worse. > > jerry > Jerry and Eric If I can remember correctly, I have received help from both of you on some of my previous posts. I thank yo

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 18:11 -0700, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Feb 11, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Robert Marella wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 18:25 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >>> > >>> athony atkielski =~ /tm452\d/ ? > >> > >>

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 19:18 -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > > If I can remember correctly, I have received help from both of you on > > some of my previous posts. I thank you and I always enjoy reading your > > view points. > > (speaking on behalf of Jerry as well as myself, and making some wild

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 20:55 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 18:25 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > > > athony atkielski =~ /tm452\d/ ? > > > > > > I was beginning to suspect some such. > > > Maybe worse. > > > > > > jerry > > > > > Jerry and Eric > >

Re: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 03:14 +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Johnson David wrote: > > > Currently Windows rules the desktop world, even for diehard Unix shops. But > > that will not last forever. We need to start thinking about the desktop > > today. We need to stop the official discouragement of d

Re: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 04:34 +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Robert Marella wrote: > > >>MacOS X is the "Desktop BSD". It is available today, and it works > >>better than anything else at being a "desktop". > > Does it work on my intel har

Re: ssh delays 40 seconds (revisited)

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Marella
luke wrote: also, you might want to look into the UseDNS option in the sshd_config file. this will cause the server to not perform dns lookups on connecting hosts. Curious and more curious. I updated one of my systems to 5.4 p2 today and just for grins I changed the UseDNS option back to "yes

Re: ssh delays 40 seconds (revisited)

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Marella
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Robert Marella wrote: luke wrote: also, you might want to look into the UseDNS option in the sshd_config file. this will cause the server to not perform dns lookups on connecting hosts. Curious and more curious. I updated one of my systems to 5.4 p2 today and just for

Re: What is 5.4 p2 ?

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Marella
Paul Dufresne wrote: and more curious. I updated one of my systems to 5.4 p2 today Being a newcomer to FreeBSD, I understand about Release version, STABLE version and CURRENT one. But I don't understand this p2 you are refering to. I could guess it means point release 2, so I checked: http://w

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Robert Marella
Jerry McAllister wrote: I say burn 'em on the cross. Why do you need to test to see if you can post before you actually post a question? If your first question/comment doesn't go through, you know it's not working. And subsequent tests can be the same question/comment with a datestamp. Just m

Re: i8xx drm support

2005-08-10 Thread Robert Marella
Jean-Francois wrote: why the hell dont FreeBSD have drm suopport for the intel graphic cards ???. its been in linux for a long time. cant you guys port it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: Flash drive device name difficulties.

2005-10-16 Thread Robert Marella
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:54:23 +0930 Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE. > I recently aquired a 256M USB flash drive > which the system recognises when plugged in; > and I can mount and use it -- all working well. > > But now I'd like to make it available to a

Re: Flash drive device name difficulties.

2005-10-17 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:34:43 +0930 Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:29 pm, Robert Marella wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:54:23 +0930 > > > > Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am running FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE.

Re: creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 02:41:24 +1100 paul thodiyil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to create shortcut icons to the gnome desktop for > commonly used devices such as floppy drive; cd/DVD rom drive and USB > compact flash card reader. > FreeBSD 6.0 RC1; AMD64 > Many thanks mkdir ~/D

Re: creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:15:21 -0500 paul thodiyil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Format Recovered...Please do not top post. > On 11/3/05, Robert Marella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 02:41:24 +1100 > > paul thodiyil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: enable smp / hyperthreading

2005-11-07 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:05:24 +0100 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:53:20PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've just installed 6.0-RELASE and am trying to get SMP to work (I > > have af Pentium 4 with HT). So I've compiled the kernel with > > 'op

Re: enable smp / hyperthreading

2005-11-07 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:16:19 -1000 Robert Marella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:05:24 +0100 > Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:53:20PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi > > > > >

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-22 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:37:04 +0100 Freminlins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted, > > On 11/22/05, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snipped a massive load of nonsense] > > Why don't you do us all a favour and shut up. Your posts are off-topic > and a waste of storage bytes. AFAIK thi

Re: make buildworld fails from 5.4->6.0

2005-12-05 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 03:11:46 -0600 Anthony Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to upgrade from 5.4 to 6.0. I ran cvsup and tried a make > buildworld, but it failed. So I checked out the handbook and noticed > that it mentioned I should run a mergemaster -p first. So I did t

Re: Detect hardware changes

2005-12-09 Thread Robert Marella
: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 15:54:27 -0600 "Keith Bottner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please do not top post! > > -Original Message- > From: Loren M. Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, De

Re: Detect hardware changes

2005-12-12 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:27:06 -0600 "Keith Bottner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:02:25PM -0900, Peter Giessel wrote: > > > On 12/8/2005 11:51, Keith Bottner seems to have typed: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x02 card=0x00241737 chip=0x10321737 > > > >

Re: Slices

2005-12-12 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:40:40 -0600 Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sasa Stupar wrote: > > > You can also do the same as I did. I have just configured one slice > > named / which > > takes all the space on hdd and now I don't need to worry about > > space shortage. > > > OK then, but

Re: Off-Topic

2005-12-13 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:56:47 +0100 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:35:18PM +, Uncle Deejy-Pooh wrote: > > We've another contender for the 'Signature-of-the-Forum' award. > > This one spotted from Jayesh Jayan: > >"The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT,

Re: Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-18 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:51:06 -0300 Henry Lenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A nice portupgrade feature would be to grok UPDATING, and present > > you with any such notes before the upgrade occurs. > > > > Mike > > I fully agree. It's not the best solution to have an UPDATE file that > is very l

Re: how to make fixed Direct Access device (da) ID

2006-09-18 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:05:11 -0700 "Jin Guojun [VFFS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is awkward that dynamically and/or statically attaching SCSI hard > drive and > USB hard drive to the system will have different da IDs. > For example, boot system with a SCSI drive (SCSI = 1), will have a > da

Re: can't find my hard drive

2006-09-21 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:17:29 -0600 (CST) Brett McLain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm they're both SATA drives set as masters. I tried some more today > and i'm still unable to do it. There seems no way to make it > recognize it. It would SEEM that it doesn't recognize the drive when > the

Re: Install error - MOD_LOAD (amr_linux, 0xffffffff806205d0, 0) error 6

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 09:45:56 +1100 Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:26:11 -0600 > tecol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I disabled SATA in BIOS and I disabled the nVidia RAID setup in > > BIOS and got stuck at the same place, except that I don't see the > > MOD

Re: Diagnosing fan problem

2007-02-16 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:19:50 -0500 Jesse Sheidlower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a ThinkPad T41p that has had a variety of fan problems > for some time. After my most recent repair things seemed to be > working fine, but the other day I was compiling some ports and > the machine just shu

Re: locking down scsi device id's in 6.2

2007-04-07 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:15:27 -0400 "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I've got a situation where three devices, one a scsi tape drive and > the other two ide burners under scsi emulation with atapicam are > fighting for scsi id's and i'd like to lock them down to specific > id's. When the

Re: locking down scsi device id's in 6.2

2007-04-09 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 21:16:50 -0400 "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (Format recovered: Please do not top post) > > > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:15:27 -0400 > > "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> I've got a situation where three devices, one a scsi tape drive and > >> the other two

Re: locking down scsi device id's in 6.2

2007-04-12 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:15:22 -0400 "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > My thanks to everyone who has helped thus far with this > situation. I've gone over scsi(4) and have added the below to > device.hints: > > hint.sa.0.at="scbus0" > hint.sa.0.target="5" > hint.sa.0.unit="0" > hint.

Re: locking down scsi device id's in 6.2

2007-04-13 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:49:43 -0400 "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Either i've got a syntax error or my devices aren't wiring > obeying /boot/device.hints. I've added: > > hint.scbus.0.at="ahc0" > > to my config. The tape drive is consistent on scbus0, target5, lun0, > if i change

Re: locking down scsi device id's in 6.2

2007-04-13 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:39:42 -0400 "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Thanks for your reply. Please see below for responses. > > Here is my add-ons to /boot/device.hints: > > # custom devices > hint.scbus.0.at="ahc0" #find this with dmesg > hint.sa.0.at="scbus0" > hint.sa.0.targ

Re: locking down scsi device id's in 6.2

2007-04-14 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:51:12 -0400 "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Thanks. Still no good, basically it just brought me back to where > i was. Do you know anyone else who might have an idea on this? > Thanks for all your help. > Dave. Perhaps I have been leading you on a wild

Re: OT: re AbiWord and margins

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Marella
Gary Kline wrote: Apologies up front for this genral question; this time I *have* searched for a solution, but to no avail. With OpenOffice's WP I can change typeface, margin, &c by dragging mouse over read-in file. Once entire file is highlighted, altering fonts and margin

OT: Who's on first?

2005-09-23 Thread Robert Marella
"I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 Beta 5 on my notebook computer. Am I going to have the same trouble you had?" "Oh no, That problem was just B4." "Before what?" "What?" "You said the problem was just before." "Exactly!" Isn't the English language marvelous. Have a good day. Robert

Re: Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:46:49 +0400 "Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/24/05, Gordon Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a > > desktop. > > > > Like others have already told you here, the best solution > is packaging. The

OT: moving address book from mozilla-mail to sylpheed-claws

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Marella
Good Morning As the subject states I am moving from Mozilla-mail to Sylpheed-Claws. I can't seem to find a way to convert the mozilla.mab file to anything that Sylpheed will import. Anybody have experience or clues on this problem? Thanks Robert ___ f

Re: Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-29 Thread Robert Marella
: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:35:38 +0400 "Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/28/05, Robert Marella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have one question. Is there a

Re: Burning DVDs

2005-10-14 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:50:34 +0200 edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > My DVD drive read and mounts CDs and DVDs properly, but K3B refuses to > burn : "K3B did not find a suitable writer. You will only be able to > create an image". Gut feeling is that there probably is something > wron

Can't remove empty directory

2005-04-12 Thread Robert Marella
Greetings I think this problem occurred during "portmanager -u" but I can't be certain. Portmanager did a core dump this morning. I tried a portsclean -CD and /usr/ports/accessibility/gail/work cannot be removed. Here is what I have tried. p4# cd /usr/ports/accessibility/gail p4# ls -l total 1

Re: Can't remove empty directory

2005-04-12 Thread Robert Marella
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:14:12PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Apr 12 10:06 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Apr 12 10:06 .. drwxr--r-- 4 root wheel 0 Apr 12 09:51 gail p4# chflags -R noschg gail p4# rm -r gail rm: gail: Directory not

OT: light weight spreadsheet program

2005-04-30 Thread Robert Marella
Greetings I am trying to keep my older laptop from being filled up. i.e. Trying to keep the number of ports to a minimum, I am using xfce4. I like Gnumeric for my desktop system, which is a lot faster, but I don't want to have all of the gnome stuff that comes with it. I just tried it and it br

Re: PF RULES! But mine doesn't ...

2005-05-08 Thread Robert Marella
Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: Hello. My ruleset is all twisted. Unless I disable the default deny policy, this is what happens: * My nameserver setup goes disfunctional. * My web, mail and fileserver goes disfunctional. * I cannot SSH and FTP into certain servers. * I cannot ping my IP from the outs

Re: PF RULES! But mine doesn't ...

2005-05-08 Thread Robert Marella
Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: Perhaps you should check the archives. :) What do you mean? There are many archives out there ... Please tell me which one? Thanks! -- Fafa Hafiz Krantz Research Designer @ http://www.home.no/barbershop Enlightened @ http://www.home.no/barbershop/smart/sharon.pdf Did

OT: A beautiful dmesg! Maybe one day?

2005-05-11 Thread Robert Marella
Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: Clifton! I've never read a better e-mail. Thank you for your words, wise man. I've been inspired now. :) From: Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this matters so much to you, it should be worth your effort. I must agree with Fafa. Wise words from a wise man. If e

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

2005-05-25 Thread Robert Marella
Louis LeBlanc wrote: Anyone using this particular USB controller with FreeBSD and getting the ehci driver to work? Upgrade to RELENG_5. There have been a lot of bug fixes to the USB subsystem and USB 2.0 works far better. I'm not sure I'm ready to put RELENG_5 on this machine. I prefer to

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 & Xwindows

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Marella
Robert Slade wrote: Hiya, I've been trying to figure this out. I've tried googling for an answer but only got confused. I have a P4 machine with an ATI Radeon 9200 with 128Mbyte of memory built into the motherboard. I have not been able to get Xwindows to run at any greater resolution than ba

ssh delays 40 seconds

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Marella
A little nudge is needed. All of a sudden, my attempts to ssh any of the other computers in my SOHO take 40 seconds before I am prompted for a password or pass-phrase. At that time I can log in and all is well. It is consistent in all directions. I have made NO changes to ssh or any other conf

Re: ssh delays 40 seconds

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Marella
Robert Huff wrote: Richard J. Valenta writes: I had this problem in the past, and it was due to DNS problems where my IP from the client machine was unable to be resolved... but I think it took longer than 40 seconds. I mentioned this in this list before, a search of the list may help.

Re: ssh delays 40 seconds

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Marella
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 03:25:08PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: Robert Huff wrote: Richard J. Valenta writes: I had this problem in the past, and it was due to DNS problems where my IP from the client machine was unable to be resolved... but I think it took longer

Re: ssh delays 40 seconds

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Marella
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 04:49:26PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: Jonathan Chen wrote: [...] It's not the forward case that's the problem. The sshd daemon on the server side attempts to find out where the connection is from by doing a reverse-lookup. If the i

Re: ssh delays 40 seconds (SOLVED???)

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Marella
luke wrote: also, you might want to look into the UseDNS option in the sshd_config file. this will cause the server to not perform dns lookups on connecting hosts. Luke Okay, that takes care of the delay. I had to change it to "no" on all boxes that I ssh into. Does this have any negative ram

Re: ssh delays 40 seconds (SOLVED???)

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Marella
Resending because I did not see it come in ti -questions and I keep having mail bounced sending to "Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". luke wrote: also, you might want to look into the UseDNS option in the sshd_config file. this will cause the server to not perform dns lookups on connecting ho

Re: ssh delays 40 seconds (SOLVED???)

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Marella
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Robert Marella wrote: luke wrote: also, you might want to look into the UseDNS option in the sshd_config file. this will cause the server to not perform dns lookups on connecting hosts. Did something change with 5.4? I don't think so; I've had the proble

Re: Paging Matthew Seaman

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:30:00 -0600 Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Friday, January 04, 2008 13:35:56 -0500 Jerry McAllister > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:03:51PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > >> --On Friday, January 04, 2008 17:18:51 + Matthew

Gnash crash

2008-02-13 Thread Robert Marella
Aloha With all the noise on this list with regards to Flash and others, I decided to try gnash once again. Previously gnash would cause the processor occupancy to max out on whichever machine I tried it on. I don not care to run any Linux emulation on my systems. It is just a personal thing. I ru

Keeping Gnome at 2.6

2004-11-09 Thread Robert Marella
Aloha If I do not wish to update to Gnome 2.8 what should I put in what config file to keep Gnome from trying to upgrade when I do a portupgrade? TIA Robert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Belkin Media Card Reader

2004-11-13 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:53:36 + Mick Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have just purchased a Belkin F5U249 media card reader, and am having > trouble mounting it under FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mwalker]# mount /dev/da3 media > mount: /dev/da3 on /usr/h

Re: Parallel Port Printing Blues

2004-11-16 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:01:33 -0800 Karl Agee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Freebsd 4.10-stable system that I am having problems getting > parallel port printing to work on. > > The printer is an old HP DeskJet 820C Winprinter > http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet

sane problems with umax astra 1220u

2004-11-17 Thread Robert Marella
Hello I got lucky this afternoon at a thrift shop. I bought an Umax Astra 1220U for $3 US. It didn't have a USB cable (no problem) nor a power adapter. I checked the voltage input (12V DC) and knew that I had an old adapter that would probably work. Long story short, it was the wrong polarity but

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