Re: xmms-arts plugin

2003-09-09 Thread Todd Stephens
gt; any help. I am running FreeBSD-4.8 STABLE, with the ports cvsuped and > upraded today. > I do not believe you need it. I am running XMMS under KDE with no arts plugin without any problems at all. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROT

Re: xmms-arts plugin

2003-09-11 Thread Todd Stephens
only because I have the volume turned way up to hear the cd better. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: xmms-arts plugin

2003-09-11 Thread Todd Stephens
to play sound simultaneously from > a different source than xmms, while xmms is playing via the wrapper. I don't know what I did differently, but mine seems to work fine in that respect. Now, maybe the mail notification sound is delayed a bit, but I really don'

Re: freeBSD 4.8

2003-09-11 Thread Todd Stephens
t") and hit enter when prompted for a password. BTW, FreeBSD is not Linux. Go to www.freebsd.org to find out more. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Software patents

2003-09-12 Thread Todd Stephens
e FreeBSD. I think the *BSD communities are comfortable enough in their positions that they don't need to direct so much attention to themselves in that way. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Xterm-color

2003-09-13 Thread Todd Stephens
Probably a no-brainer, but how can I make my xterm start as xterm-color? If I want color ls, I have to type TERM=xterm-color from the command line every time I start a new terminal window. What file do I need to edit to make X start with xterm-color? -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 "A

OpenOffice

2003-09-14 Thread Todd Stephens
I am installing this from ports. Considering everything else that is getting installed along with it (gcc 3.2.3 among others), how long should I expect this to take? Anyone have any experience with this? Running a K6-2 500Mhz (FBSD 4.8) -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 "A witty saying p

Re: color in Xwindows

2003-09-14 Thread Todd Stephens
On Sunday 14 September 2003 01:23 pm, Gerald S Stoller wrote: > I tried it, still the same output, no color. This may be related to my question regarding using xterm-color. Try typing this at your command line: $ TERM=xterm-color Then try ls -G and see if you get color or not. -- T

Re: OpenOffice

2003-09-14 Thread Todd Stephens
e. My original message to the list hasn't even shown up in my inbox yet! I think I need to have a talk with my ISP :) Actually, I was expecting at least a day or so for the install. I guess it is not so bad. My main fear was that someone was going to say 3 days. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 315

cdda2wav permissions

2003-09-14 Thread Todd Stephens
555, so I should be able to execute the binary as a user. Permissions on the relative devices (cd0a and cd0c and the rcd* devices) are all 644 root:operator. What else needs to be done here? -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 "A witty saying proves nothing."

Ogg encoding

2003-09-14 Thread Todd Stephens
I found a port for mp32ogg to convert mp3 to ogg format, but is there a program to convert wav to ogg format? I like the ogg format, but it seems to me that there will be some data loss going from wav to mp3 and then to ogg. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 "A witty saying proves no

Re: OpenOffice

2003-09-15 Thread Todd Stephens
lt I was better off using ports. Of course, I'm going on about 30 hours now of compile time. Mitigating that is the fact that it had to compile and install gcc 3.2.3 before it even got to the OpenOffice build. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 "A witty saying proves nothing."

OpenOffice in FreeBSD

2003-09-17 Thread Todd Stephens
utility to uninstall then reinstall, or will I have to build OO all over again? -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 "A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Question on which port is better for COBOL

2003-09-20 Thread Todd Stephens
the case. Has anyone any experience with either (or preferably both)? Which one is preferred by users out there? Thank you for any assistance. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 "A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire

Re: KDE - icons and fonts not anti-aliased

2003-09-20 Thread Todd Stephens
lished? I think the default is to exclude fonts between 8 and 15 point sizes. There is a checkbox to "uncheck" if you don't want any font sizes excluded from anti-aliasing. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 "A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire

Re: atacontrol

2003-09-21 Thread Todd Stephens
On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:56 am, Micheal Patterson wrote: > Has anyone ever run across this error when trying to run atacontrol? > > "$:> atacontrol list > atacontrol: control device not found: No such file or directory" > atacontrol has to be run as root. -- T

Re: atacontrol

2003-09-21 Thread Todd Stephens
the entire line. The OP has since said he was running as root, but the $ prompt he used in the example made me think he was not doing so. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 "A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PR

Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-22 Thread Todd Stephens
up the way I want, I would have stuck with Windows as well. Windows functions perfectly well as a home desktop; I just wanted more. BTW, how is copying an ISO image of FreeBSD to a CD harder than copying any other ISO to a CD? -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 "A witty saying proves nothing.&q

Re:

2003-09-22 Thread Todd Stephens
FreeBSD. In fact, I don't even see it on NetBSD's site (http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/). -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 "A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: questions about x server

2003-09-25 Thread Todd Stephens
uot;exec startkde" is in your .xinitrc file in your home directory. -- Todd Stephens Please refrain from double negatives in my email "A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Problem with cups

2003-09-27 Thread Todd Stephens
foomatic-rip (which I thought was just a Perl script anyway). I eventually gave up on foomatic with my Epson C82 and used the "straight" Epson C82 driver from the gimp-print collection. -- Todd Stephens "A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire

Re: Problem with cups

2003-09-27 Thread Todd Stephens
. I see. I have noticed that my results without foomatic were just as good as they were with foomatic under Linux. Thank you for the clarification. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a

Re: Burn an ISO image

2003-09-27 Thread Todd Stephens
ssociate the .iso extension with your burning software? I did it with Nero and Adaptec both by just right-clicking the .iso "file" and selecting "burn new cd from image" or something similar to that wording. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them

Port installation methods

2003-09-27 Thread Todd Stephens
Is there any benefit to using the standard 'make' method of installing ports over the 'portinstall' command (or portupgrade -N), or vice-versa? -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way

Re: Port installation methods

2003-09-27 Thread Todd Stephens
y started using portinstall for installing ports. I have been using portupgrade for a while now. It seems to me that portinstall (as you indicated) is better at finding and fixing dependency issues as well. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,

Re: vmware

2003-09-29 Thread Todd Stephens
On Monday 29 September 2003 05:33 pm, Ralph wrote: > I installed vmware 3 and it say's i need to mount linprocfs to run > vmware can someone tell me how to do this plz. > man linprocfs SYNOPSIS linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 -- Todd Stephen

Re:

2003-09-29 Thread Todd Stephens
e a Mac (PPC chip) you can't use FreeBSD at this time. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:

Re: Getting cups web interface to work

2003-10-01 Thread Todd Stephens
my printer on cups using the web > interface www.mydomain.com:631/admin/ Use http://localhost:631/admin -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato _

Re: Getting cups web interface to work

2003-10-01 Thread Todd Stephens
trying to access from another machine. I knew I should have reread my post before hitting send. Never mind. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Todd Stephens
a modern OS to the original AT&T 'Unix'. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Todd Stephens
t some choices are made for you in terms of pre-installed > software. Actually, with RH you get GNOME automagically as RH has just about ceased any official support of KDE. Just for trivia's sake :) -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Todd Stephens
l/ UNIX code which existed prior to Sys V in 1983, indicating that BSD and Sys V are different branches from the same trunk. The history is rather confusing though, so I expect to be wrong on this. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-02 Thread Todd Stephens
os. Sure, you can uninstall things later, but the only one that really gave me a choice of specific packages to install from the get-go was Slackware. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-02 Thread Todd Stephens
e* to use them, but I am fairly certain that X and at least GNOME are installed by default. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato __

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-04 Thread Todd Stephens
you might not want that one either. There is another in /usr/ports/multimedia/slideshow that is supposedly very powerful. I have only glanced at it. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will fin

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Todd Stephens
stalling these days. The ports system almost makes it *too* easy to install things and I've gone a little crazy with it lately. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato __

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Todd Stephens
On Sunday 05 October 2003 09:22 am, Todd Stephens wrote: > Slideshow seems like an impressive application to me from looking at > the web site http://www.alobbs.com/slideshow. It has an option to > create "ASCII Slides", so I don't know if that means it can read from

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Todd Stephens
t. Is this part of the Opera port? On the web page is says it is part of Opera for Windows, but does not mention it being part of Opera for Linux or otherwise. It is an interesting idea though. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act respon

Re: Latest "stable" fixes are unstable

2003-10-10 Thread Todd Stephens
d still get all the security patches is to update to RELENG_4_8. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list htt

Re: FreeBSD Internals e-book

2003-10-11 Thread Todd Stephens
g any effort: http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/current.html To get a feel for what you are getting yourself in to you could read "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System". One chapter is availabe for reading online at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/design-44b

What is up with this list's postfix program?

2003-10-11 Thread Todd Stephens
I keep getting "Undeliverable" notifications of things I submit even though they make it to the list just fine. Anyone else getting this? -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the

Re: What is up with this list's postfix program?

2003-10-11 Thread Todd Stephens
yway, this latest is from some server @ bicer.org. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebs

Vim port with GUI

2003-10-11 Thread Todd Stephens
Does the vim port build vim with the GUI by default, or does this need to be enabled in the make arguments? -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.&quo

Re: Windows Media (blech!)

2003-10-13 Thread Todd Stephens
hough. I haven't had much luck playing anything other than mpeg with Mplayer. YMMV. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato ___ [EMAIL

Re: no root login after changing shell

2003-08-28 Thread Todd Stephens
in as toor. This is my newbie understanding of toor anyway. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD?

2003-08-30 Thread Todd Stephens
when I moved from Windows to Linux, I could not get a response from my ISP's DHCP server, so my only recourse to was to boot back to Windows to ask my questions. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

How to get CUPS to work (newbie)

2003-08-31 Thread Todd Stephens
ecked on freebsddiary.org, and the CUPS page there doesn't cover the configuration of the server itself it seems. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: How to get CUPS to work (newbie)

2003-08-31 Thread Todd Stephens
o work on it some more today and will reply to the list if it works. Thank you for your assistance. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: libc.so.3 not found

2003-09-01 Thread Todd Stephens
ill give me this library ? > On my 4.8 I have libc.so.4 in /usr/lib. I'm not sure what put it there, but check to see what you have. If it is higher than 3, you could: #cd /usr/lib #ln -s libc.so.4 libc.so.3 See if that works. -- Todd Stephens

Re: libc.so.3 not found

2003-09-01 Thread Todd Stephens
braries, but I see it may not work for this one. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-01 Thread Todd Stephens
not. Does anyone have any experience with this? -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-01 Thread Todd Stephens
On Monday 01 September 2003 05:43 pm, Todd Stephens wrote: > I have been trying to get this setup to work as it does on my Linux > box. Has anyone gotten CUPS working using the foomatic-rip/gimp-print > method outlined on Linuxprinting.org? I have an Epson Stylus C82 at &g

Re: applications

2003-09-03 Thread Todd Stephens
.com, but I have no idea if it would run on FreeBSD, even under Linux compat. > Spreadsheets Gnumeric. OpenOffice has one as does KOffice. > Pkzip > There are more compression tools than you can shake a stick at :) -- Todd Stephens ___

Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question

2003-09-03 Thread Todd Stephens
It should be /dev. Also, according to 'man burncd', "the files burned to data CD-Rs are assumed to be ISO9660 file systems", so I think you need to take whatever file(s) you want to put on the cd, and use mkisofs to create a ISO image. I've never used burncd though, so

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Todd Stephens
swrapper scripts be placed? Should I set owner to root:daemon? I'll keep trying with it in the meantime. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Todd Stephens
create. I'll let you know how this goes. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Playing audio cd while using atapicam (4.8R)

2003-09-06 Thread Todd Stephens
0 and no audio comes out. Is there some other procedure that I need to do first to enable the playing of audio cd? I thought about maybe adding /dev/rcd0c to the fstab file, but I don't know if that is the way to go about it. Thank you for any assistance. -- Tod

Re: Playing audio cd while using atapicam (4.8R)

2003-09-06 Thread Todd Stephens
drive was viewed as scsi regardless of application. Than you. It works fine now. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: USB stick

2003-09-08 Thread Todd Stephens
art, though. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

USB controller SiS 5571 chipset

2003-09-08 Thread Todd Stephens
again. Thank you. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"