Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-13 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 22:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: What version of FreeBSD are you currently running. Check out the FreeBSD Handbook for step-by-step instructions for synchronizing your source and building an updated kernel and userland.

RE: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 169, Issue 9

2007-03-13 Thread Grant Wagner
As both a Christian and a FreeBSD user, I have stickers on my car related to both. It's truly humorous to see the occasional glare I might get because of Beastie or the rare double take due to both being there simultaneously. Luckily my church has a respectably sized geek community, and more often

Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-13 Thread hxc
Pieter de Goeje wrote: Yes the steps below do exactly that: upgrade everything, including the kernel. 1 Use the cvsup program (gotta figure how yet) Use something like the following as supfile: --- cut *default host=cvsup.nl.freebsd.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr

Re: FreeBSD Devil Image

2007-03-13 Thread NetOps Center
Old Ranger wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:34, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 13/03/07, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our beastie may be a bit devilish in some respects, but please don't call him just a devil. Some people stay away from FreeBSD for religious reasons. Feeding their

Exim 4.66 Causing Kernel Panics?

2007-03-13 Thread Don O'Neil
Anyone aware of a reason why a fresh build/install of exim 4.66 would cause kernel panics and reboots on my FreeBSD 6.1 machine? My machine, just out of the blue this morning, started rebooting every 3 minutes I narrowed it down to exim I think... As long as I never started up exim 4.66 the

Re: Exim 4.66 Causing Kernel Panics?

2007-03-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:39:24PM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: Anyone aware of a reason why a fresh build/install of exim 4.66 would cause kernel panics and reboots on my FreeBSD 6.1 machine? It shouldn't, of course. Please follow up with the panic in the usual way (developers handbook, PR, etc)

Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-13 Thread Tore Lund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: What version of FreeBSD are you currently running. Sorry for pressing the point, but it seems you have not yet told us which version of FreeBSD you are running. /Darn this looks pretty complicated :-P In that case, it may be simpler to just

Wireless Bridge in FreeBSD 6.1

2007-03-13 Thread Sung Park
I'm having trouble to bridge two wireless card which is Atheros AR5213A in FreeBSD 6.1. I try to make transparent bridge in these two wireless card. I compiled BRIDGE in kernel and I put net.link.ether.bridge=1 net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=*ath0*,*ath1* net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1 in

Re: Wireless Bridge in FreeBSD 6.1

2007-03-13 Thread Kevin Downey
On 3/13/07, Sung Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble to bridge two wireless card which is Atheros AR5213A in FreeBSD 6.1. I try to make transparent bridge in these two wireless card. I compiled BRIDGE in kernel and I put net.link.ether.bridge=1

Re: FreeBSD Devil Image

2007-03-13 Thread rloefgren
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Old Ranger wrote: Believe it or not, I actually had an irate woman complain to me about having a devil image on our church website. sheesh Nothing is more complete than the delusion that beauty equals goodness. - Tolstoy r

Re: FreeBSD Devil Image

2007-03-13 Thread Nicole Harrington
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Old Ranger wrote: Believe it or not, I actually had an irate woman complain to me about having a devil image on our church website. sheesh Nothing is more complete than the delusion that beauty equals goodness. -

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-13 Thread jekillen
On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:14 PM, RW wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:36:41 -0800 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 12, 2007, at 9:05 AM, RW wrote: The important thing is really your reverse DNS, if you have control of it and looks like a real server name, e.g. mail.example.com, you can

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-13 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:00 -0400, Marcelo Maraboli wrote: I agree. callbacks are not enough, you can reach a false conclusion, that´s why I use SPF along with callbacks... on the same message, my MX concludes: you are sending email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], but shire.net says YOUR

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Kip Macy
Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia driver. I have a friend who

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Mar 13, 2007, at 16:33 , Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD or ATI components until they decide to fix the

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kip Macy writes: | Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and | goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 | support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI | because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia |

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Doug Ambrisko wrote: Kip Macy writes: | Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and | goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 | support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI | because of the problems I

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Doug Ambrisko wrote: Kip Macy writes: | Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and | goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 | support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI | because of the problems I

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST) Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it, whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati since it was easier to get support. Now I'm starting to lean towards

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST) Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it, whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati since it was easier to get support. Now I'm starting to lean towards

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mar 13, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Andrew Reilly wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST) Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it, whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati since it was easier to get

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-13 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 13, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:00 -0400, Marcelo Maraboli wrote: I agree. callbacks are not enough, you can reach a false conclusion, that´s why I use SPF along with callbacks... on the same message, my MX concludes: you are

Upgrading from FreeBSD 6.1-Stable to Latest

2007-03-13 Thread Don O'Neil
What is the _easiest_ way to upgrade from a FreeBSD 6.1-stable install to a 6.2-stable install? I can't run freebsd-update because it doesn't know about -stable, and I'd prefer to avoid doing a buildworld because of the time. Any suggestions? ___

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-13 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:00 -0400, Marcelo Maraboli wrote: I agree. callbacks are not enough, you can reach a false conclusion, that´s why I use SPF along with callbacks... on the same

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-13 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 13, 2007, at 9:30 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:00 -0400, Marcelo Maraboli wrote: I agree. callbacks are not enough, you can reach a false conclusion,

Re: Exim 4.66 Causing Kernel Panics?

2007-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 13, 2007, at 5:39 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: Anyone aware of a reason why a fresh build/install of exim 4.66 would cause kernel panics and reboots on my FreeBSD 6.1 machine? My machine, just out of the blue this morning, started rebooting every 3 minutes I narrowed it down to exim I

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 PM, jekillen wrote: On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:14 PM, RW wrote: Just as long as you understand the distinction between forward and reverse DNS. Based on the whois record for for your IP address, at the moment you appear to have the following reverse DNS for the

Re: Installing a second hard disk

2007-03-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 06:05:16PM +0100, Aitor San Juan wrote: Hi List, I am trying to install a secondary hard disk in a Intel-based PC with FreeBSD 5.4 This secondary disk's capacity is 250 Gb. When I enter sysintall to try to format it and create a slice, FreeBSD says that the

Expected speed of firewire-attached drive?

2007-03-13 Thread Andrew Reilly
Hi there, I don't do a whole lot of benchmarking: mostly my computer's speed is perfectly adequate, and working reliably is key. At the moment, though, I'm curious. I'm sitting here while I attempt to restore a file from a level-0 dump, and it's taking a while. The backup medium is one of

Re: FreeBSD Devil Image

2007-03-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:58:22PM -0500, Adam Gerety wrote: What are the rules, in terms of using the FreeBSD Devil image to make some stickers? I am huge fan/supporter of FreeBSD and want a sticker that is just the Devil to put on my computers. Not planning to sell them, though it

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 3/13/07, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. Here's the email address of AMD's president: [EMAIL

Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 6.1-Stable to Latest

2007-03-13 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:24:50 -0700 Don O'Neil wrote: What is the _easiest_ way to upgrade from a FreeBSD 6.1-stable install to a 6.2-stable install? I can't run freebsd-update because it doesn't know about -stable, and I'd prefer to avoid doing a buildworld because of the time. Any

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