Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

2011-01-10 Thread Firas Kraiem
On 10/01/11 14:02, Ed Smith wrote: This seems bizarre. Logically, it would seem better to do a split like vim (bare vim - what you would expect) and xvim (vim with X11) similar to how emacs does emacs/xemacs. Totally different thing. The emacs port install GNU Emacs; the xemacs port installs

Re: Web mail for not local domains.

2010-11-28 Thread Firas Kraiem
On 28/11/10 18:36, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I was wondering if you can suggest the best application you consider for the following. I am supporting a non profit organization, so the budget is less than zero. They already have a freebsd server (8.1) and are using sendmail for about

AR5212 woes

2010-11-11 Thread Firas Kraiem
Hi everyone I have an Atheros wifi card that is giving me some headaches. It's supposed to be an AR5212-based card, and is detected as such, dmesg on 8.1-RELEASE says: ath0: Atheros 5212 mem 0xa001-0xa001 irq 11 at device 14.0 on pci0 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: AR5212 mac 5.6 RF5111 phy 4.1

Foreign characters in filenames on FTP

2009-01-24 Thread Firas Kraiem
Hi, I have an issue with filenames that have foreign (e.g. Japanese) characters in them when trying to access them by FTP from a Windows machine (the server is running FreeBSD 7.1, the same problem occurs with both the builtin ftpd and vsftpd). It is most likely an encoding problem, but

7.0 crashes

2008-03-16 Thread Firas Kraiem
Greetings I have a 7.0 system (upgraded from 6.2 to 6.3 then to 7.0 using freebsd-update) and I've experienced a few system crashes (the system just hard-reboots on it's own) that seem to happen when it is under heavy network load (downloading at several megabytes/second). Nothing gets

Re: 7.0 crashes

2008-03-16 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Sunday 16 March 2008 20:43:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16/03/2008, Firas Kraiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings I have a 7.0 system (upgraded from 6.2 to 6.3 then to 7.0 using freebsd-update) and I've experienced a few system crashes (the system just hard-reboots on it's own

Re: How to replace two strings in a file in the same time with sed command ?

2007-12-11 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 17:20:50 Halid Faith wrote: I want to replace two or more strings in a file in the same time with sed command. How do I that ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % echo foobar | sed 's/foo/goo/;s/bar/baz/' goobaz -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\

Re: Problem controlling brightness

2007-12-04 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:44:26 Liyu,She wrote: Hello folks, I am using FreeBSD 7.0 Beta3 on Acer Aspire 4710Z.But soon after the boot menu I completely lose control of display brightness. I cannot control the brightness under both console and x. I also tried to modify the

Issues configuring cyrus-imapd

2007-12-02 Thread Firas Kraiem
Greetings I'm trying to configure cyrus-imapd on a FreeBSD (6.2) mail server. The only guide Google pointed me to is this one, who seems a bit outdated : http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~venkat/tutorial1.html So I tried to follow it, making all the changes I could figure out. First, I installed

Re: Support graphic cards

2007-06-22 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Friday 22 June 2007 21:29:50 Instituto de Ingenieria Área de Sistemas Unix/Linux wrote: Hello list I've read the supported hardware list on the freesbd distribution page but it doesnt say anything about quad core processors and graphic acceleration cards Do you know where i can find a

Re: Failed to load module nv ...

2007-06-12 Thread Firas Kraiem
Hi The nv driver is part of the official Xorg distribution. Make sure you have the x11/xorg metaport installed as it contains all the official drivers : $ cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg $ sudo make install clean Also, make sure the ModulePath line in your xorg.conf points to the

Synaptics touchpad and FBSD 6.2-R

2007-04-16 Thread Firas Kraiem
Greetings I have an Asus A6JM laptop with FBSD 6.2-RELEASE installed on it. The touchpad is recognized very well (tapping and scrolling work perfectly) but I'd like to be able to toggle in on/off with just a keystroke. In Linux, I add an InputDevice section about it in my xorg.conf and I

sendmail and hostname

2007-04-03 Thread Firas Kraiem
Greetings I get this message when booting my FBSD home webserver : Apr 3 22:23:55 alice sm-mta[509]: My unqualified host name (alice) unknown; sleeping for retry From what I've understood after a bit of searching, the answer lies probably in the /etc/hosts file. So here goes :

sendmail and hostname

2007-04-03 Thread Firas Kraiem
Greetings I get this message when booting my FBSD home webserver : Apr 3 22:23:55 alice sm-mta[509]: My unqualified host name (alice) unknown; sleeping for retry From what I've understood after a bit of searching, the answer lies probably in the /etc/hosts file. So here goes :

Re: Help installing nasm

2007-03-15 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Thursday 15 March 2007 18:59:05 Robe wrote: Hi, I’m trying to install the Netwide Assembler (nasm) in such a way: # cd /usr/ports/devel/nasm # make But I get the following error: = Couldn’t fetch it – please try to retrieve this port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and

Re: Asking for help on first installation

2007-02-20 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Monday 19 February 2007 14:48, Manfred Frey wrote: Hi FreeBSD folks, I'm a UNIX user for some time but now I'm trying to install my first FreeBSD system over the internet. I got along with the HW and pre-installation issues easily, the disk space is allocated, I know what to install. But

Tab competion working partially.

2007-02-05 Thread Firas Kraiem
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Tab completion working partially

2007-02-05 Thread Firas Kraiem
(Sorry for the double-posting, the last message wasn't sent properly) Hi I have problems with the tab-completion in my shell (bash). When there is only one choice possible, it works fine (e.g. cd /usr/portab il complete correctly to /usr/ports). However, when there is multiple choices

Re: Tab completion working partially

2007-02-05 Thread Firas Kraiem
Quoting Rong-en Fan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2/6/07, Firas Kraiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Sorry for the double-posting, the last message wasn't sent properly) Hi I have problems with the tab-completion in my shell (bash). When there is only one choice possible, it works fine (e.g. cd /usr

Re: win32-codecs still marked forbidden in error?

2007-01-25 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Thursday 25 January 2007 16:35, Oliver Iberien wrote: Hi, Last ports database update yesterday, and trying to update mplayer... === mplayer-0.99.10_3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-3.1.0.r1,1 - not found ===Verifying install for

gsfonts in X ?

2007-01-19 Thread Firas Kraiem
Hello everyone ! My problem is that fonts look really horrible in most websites (see screenshot at the end of this message). The same problem occured in various Linux distros and was solved by installing the gsfonts-x11 package. How would I do the same in FBSD ? The print/gsfonts port is

Re: Problems with custom kernel fbsd 6.2

2007-01-19 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Friday 19 January 2007 23:18, James Hein wrote: Hello, My kernel for freebsd 6.2 is not compiling but only with my custom config. I was able to compile it with the GENERIC kernel included, but my modified one will not compile. All I see at the end of my compilation is: awk -f

CVSup core dumping

2007-01-18 Thread Firas Kraiem
Hi to all of you The title says it all, when I try to run CVSup to update my ports collection (6.2-RELEASE), I get a core dump error : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cvsup -L 2 /root/ports-supfile Parsing supfile /root/ports-supfile Connecting to cvsup.fr.FreeBSD.org Connected to cvsup.fr.FreeBSD.org

Re: How to install the 3945ABG Driver on a fresh FreeBSD 6.2 install?

2007-01-18 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Thursday 18 January 2007 23:15, Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 1/18/07, Daniel Tourde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again, Hi Daniel, I built it. It works but it complains and sometimes it shuts down itself... About the complains, see below.. What do you mean by it shuts down itself?

Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-17 Thread Firas Kraiem Pro
Problem solved. For some reason, my ~/.mozilla/ was owned by root so just chown'ing it did the trick. Thanks for the help. Firas On Wednesday 17 January 2007 21:16, you wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:37, Firas Kraiem wrote: Hi to all of you ! The title pretty much says it all

Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-17 Thread Firas Kraiem
Hi to all of you ! The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install seems to run without problems but when I try to run it, no joy. If I try to run it from a terminal, I just get thrown back to the prompt without any output. This occurs with all the Firefox versions I've