changing network configuration at different places

2009-11-30 Thread Moritz Herrmann
Hello misc, I am using OBSD on my Laptop and as I use internet connections at different places (home, work, university), I always have to change my ip-adress and default route after startup. To ease the pain a littlebit I wrote three scripts that I run manually after startup: #bin/sh route delete

does pf make sense for a desktop computer?

2009-11-04 Thread Moritz Herrmann
Hi all, since the upgrade to version 4.6 had pf activated by default, I was confronted with the question wheather it is reasonable to use it on my desktop computer or not. I would like to know if someone is using it that way and if it's worth to invest my time into the configuration of pf. Reg

Re: cups and gutenprint refuse to work with canon usb printer

2009-06-14 Thread Moritz Herrmann
Thank you all for your help, like Jacob supposed, I misunderstood the entry of openprinting.org and the usage of the foomatic-engine-db. With Jacob's explanation everything worked instantaneously. Thank you very much! Moritz Jacob Meuser wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:08:09PM +0000, M

cups and gutenprint refuse to work with canon usb printer

2009-06-11 Thread Moritz Herrmann
Hi guys, after trying a whole day myself to get the old Canon PIXMA iP2000 to print from OBSD 4.5 i considered asking the mailing list for help. The printer itself is fine and is recognized as: # dmesg | grep ulpt ulpt0 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Canon iP2000" rev 1.10/1.05

starting gnome session with gdm as non root

2009-02-19 Thread Moritz Herrmann
hi everyone, I installed gdm to use gnome in a comfortable way. As root I can start gnome by just typing "gdm", and then log in as a user. But I dont think this is a right or secure way to use gnome. When i try to start gdm as a user it says: $ gdm gdm-binary[24860]: WARNING: GDM file gdm-daemon-co

activate edge scrolling for touchpad under gnome

2009-02-03 Thread Moritz Herrmann
hi folks, after several useless attempts to get this running, i decided to ask for help. I am running 4.4 on my Lenovo T61 Laptop with X11 installed and gnome as desktop environment. Both are running fine, the only thing is I am missing the horizontal scrolling function of my touchpad, that scrolls