Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:52:39 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i'll explain later, but if i can use a lightweight computer that has audio with the kde apps, i can create a reasonably priced tts or speech synthesizer that would be accessible to a great many people. instead of the $8-9

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
windose devs. Lightweight computer and KDE apps? You must be joking. :-) KDE could be considered lightweight, just it's the problem to what you compare it :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-21 Thread Shawn Badger
Hi, I've seen several posts with similar issues, but none of them have helped me resolve my own. I am using 7.2-RELEASE on my laptop with an Intel i915 graphics card. My problem is that Xorg refuses to start (most of the time) and posts an error in the log: drmDropMaster failed: Unknown

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-21 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Glen Barberglen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Shawn Badgershawnbad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've seen several posts with similar issues, but none of them have helped me resolve my own.  I am using 7.2-RELEASE on my laptop with an

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-21 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Shawn Badgershawnbad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've seen several posts with similar issues, but none of them have helped me resolve my own.  I am using 7.2-RELEASE on my laptop with an Intel i915 graphics card.  My problem is that Xorg refuses to start (most of

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-21 Thread Shawn Badger
Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Glen Barber[1]glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Shawn Badger[2]shawnbad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've seen several posts with similar issues, but none of them have helped me resolve my own. I am using

Re: kern.securelevel

2009-06-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com writes: Something dawned on me. FreeBSD/Open/Net are all well secured systems. On an Internet-facing router, would applying a higher kern.securelevel provide any better, tighter, higher security if the machine was broken into? Given you need to lower the

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-21 Thread Francisco Cabrita
Hi guys, I had the same problem here. Just install those ports and add them to rc.cond or rc.conf.local hal_enable=YES dbus_enable=YES regards, Francisco On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Glen

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-21 Thread Francisco Cabrita
s/rc.cond/rc.conf :) On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Francisco Cabrita francisco.cabr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I had the same problem here. Just install those ports and add them to rc.cond or rc.conf.local hal_enable=YES dbus_enable=YES regards, Francisco On Sun, Jun 21, 2009

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-21 Thread Francisco Cabrita
Hi Shawn I would first try to figure why is this error in the logs. (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard I think only errors stop the X to start. The one you show are warnings. Regards, Francisco On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Shawn Badger shawnbad...@gmail.com

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-21 Thread Shawn Badger
Francisco Cabrita wrote: Hi Shawn I would first try to figure why is this error in the logs. (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard I think only errors stop the X to start. The one you show are warnings. Regards, Francisco Thanks Francisco, I hadn't

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-21 Thread Shawn Badger
Shawn Badger wrote: Francisco Cabrita wrote: Hi Shawn I would first try to figure why is this error in the logs. (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard I think only errors stop the X to start. The one you show are warnings. Regards, Francisco Thanks

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 08:12:12AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:52:39 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i'll explain later, but if i can use a lightweight computer that has audio with the kde apps, i can create a reasonably priced tts or speech synthesizer that

upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-21 Thread danny
Hi list members , I frequently update the contents of the ports tree but I have never upgraded any port. I am studying the way to do it, by following the handbook and an article on The FreeBSD Diary about the use of portupgrade. At the moment I am focuing the attention to the

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Al Plant
Gary Kline wrote: for the dedicated nerds on-list now on the weekend, i just edited [[ this is my LAST edit ]] of ``slicejourney.php''. it goes away in ten days. i have another issue that has more to do with freebsd on the new and lost cost notebook computers i had heard of. how many and

upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-21 Thread Robert Huff
danny writes: At the moment I am focuing the attention to the '/usr/ports/UPDATING' file. The question that arose is the following: is there any automated way to check if any of the port to be upgraded has specific upgrading notes written in that file? Not that I know of.

Re: Audio

2009-06-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/6/20 Jeff Molofee n...@telus.net: Just wondering what changed with the sound on BSD? My system way back in the 4.x days sounded not too bad... good bass, etc. After dropping my audio cards for on board audio (intel hda) I noticed the sound was really BAD... tin can, bad separation, no

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Gary Kline wrote: for the dedicated nerds on-list now on the weekend, i just edited [[ this is my LAST edit ]] of ``slicejourney.php''. it goes away in ten days. i have another issue that has more to do with freebsd on the new and

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/21 danny mesli...@yahoo.fr: Hi list members , I frequently update the contents of the ports tree but I have never upgraded any port. I am studying the way to do it, by following the handbook and an article on The FreeBSD Diary about the use of portupgrade. At the moment I am focuing

Re: kern.securelevel

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/19 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com: Something dawned on me.  FreeBSD/Open/Net are all well secured systems.  On an Internet-facing router, would applying a higher kern.securelevel provide any better, tighter, higher security if the machine was broken into?  Given you need to lower the

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Al Plant
Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Gary Kline wrote: for the dedicated nerds on-list now on the weekend, i just edited [[ this is my LAST edit ]] of ``slicejourney.php''. it goes away in ten days. i have another issue that has more to do with

Re: kern.securelevel

2009-06-21 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/21/09, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com writes: Something dawned on me. FreeBSD/Open/Net are all well secured systems. On an Internet-facing router, would applying a higher kern.securelevel provide any better, tighter, higher

Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?]

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:42:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: i have another issue that has more to do with freebsd on the new and lost cost notebook computers i had heard of. how many and which ones work best with our flavor of

Re: Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?]

2009-06-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/6/21 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org:        anyway, i see only wireless, and i'm cat5 only.  i've got a        13-yr-old people here who would love for me to go wireless so        said people could take her apple macbook into her bedroom and so        on.  well, said people need to be not

Re: Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?]

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:42:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: i have another issue that has more to do with freebsd on the new and lost cost notebook computers i had heard of. how many and which ones work best with

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:15:31AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: [[ save the electrons ]] There was a big discussion on this list about a month back about laptops. You can search for answers on

Re: Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?]

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:53:37PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/21 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org:        anyway, i see only wireless, and i'm cat5 only.  i've got a        13-yr-old people here who would love for me to go wireless so        said people could take her apple macbook

Re: Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?]

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:16:40PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:42:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: There's a wiki devoted to FreeBSD on Asus eee http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee last

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-21 Thread Alex Stangl
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:07:51PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/6/21 danny mesli...@yahoo.fr: I frequently update the contents of the ports tree but I have never upgraded any port. I am studying the way to do it, by following the handbook and an article on The FreeBSD Diary about the use

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-21 Thread Jimmie James
Hi, I've seen several posts with similar issues, but none of them have helped me resolve my own. I am using 7.2-RELEASE on my laptop with an Intel i915 graphics card. My problem is that Xorg refuses to start (most of the time) and posts an error in the log: drmDropMaster failed: Unknown

questions on the ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
i found two at newegg.com. both are the Eee PC; both come with linux. this one is the subject line seems to come with 40G of flash/solid state memory. Is this even possible for $400 given current technology? is there any FBSD version available? since it

Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-06-20

2009-06-21 Thread Michel Di Croci
Is it me or this is really annoying and dating? I don't know for you, but for me 2 Dec 2008 is not recent. Is it because there's no submitting or simply because it's broken? Thanks Michel On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: The FreeBSD Diary contains a large

Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-06-20

2009-06-21 Thread Dan Langille
Michel Di Croci wrote: Is it me or this is really annoying and dating? I don't know for you, but for me 2 Dec 2008 is not recent. Is it because there's no submitting or simply because it's broken? http://www.freebsddiary.org/ confirms it is not broken. The original script included only

Re: kern.securelevel

2009-06-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 21 June 2009 12:30:26 Tim Judd wrote: On 6/21/09, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com writes: Something dawned on me. FreeBSD/Open/Net are all well secured systems. On an Internet-facing router, would applying a higher

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:42:00 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: HP Tech Support gave me advice to replace it with FreeBSD 7.2. Try it from a flash drive first to test everything then replace the Ubunto. I hear some people

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:24:18AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:42:00 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: HP Tech Support gave me advice to replace it with FreeBSD 7.2. Try it from a flash drive first to

Re: questions on the ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 05:35:14PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i found two at newegg.com. both are the Eee PC; both come with linux. this one is the subject line seems to come with 40G of flash/solid state memory. Is this even possible for $400 given current technology?

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:25:23 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: one q, polyt. am i mis-reading the timestamp on your mail? it reads 05:24 which is getting pretty late. i admit to not sacking out until 04:09 this morning, but hey, it's sunday! Actually, it's Monday

Re: questions on the ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G

2009-06-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, June 21, 2009 a las 05:35:14PM -0700, Gary Kline escribió: i found two at newegg.com. both are the Eee PC; both come with linux. this one is the subject line seems to come with 40G of flash/solid state memory. Is this even possible for $400 given