Quoting Polytropon free...@edvax.de:
As much as I am now a no-user of Flash, allow me the
following comments.
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training
p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
Almost all Internet video
has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons
Quoting RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:51:40 -0600
Programmer in Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
Quoting Polytropon free...@edvax.de:
That's all within transition. Currently, big video portals are
moving to HTML5, often including the wish to also use free
Quoting Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com:
Programmer in Training wrote:
Quoting Polytropon free...@edvax.de:
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training
p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
snip
That's a no-go, I have it on good authority that h.264 was chosen
over Theora
Quoting Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com:
snip
My alias for killflash is Don't install it.
Flash is buggy software on any platform.
snip
While that may be, try telling that to your 4 yr old nephew who likes
to play those flash based games on PBS Kids. Almost all Internet video
has
Quoting Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com:
On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Programmer in Training wrote:
[ ... ]
While that may be, try telling that to your 4 yr old nephew who
likes to play those flash based games on PBS Kids. Almost all
Internet video has moved to flash as well (such as all
Quoting Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com:
Please see last line of sig.
On Jun 15, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Programmer in Training wrote:
Quoting Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com:
Adobe supports Windows, MacOSX, Linux, and Solaris (from
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions
On 04/11/10 05:06, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
snip
It's probably too late to suggest it now but it did occur to me a very
cheap and easy way to get around the original problem might be to
replace the keyboard with a PS/2 keyboard :P (if your computer has a
PS/2 port).
PS/2 ports do not work at
On 04/11/10 01:36, Dima Panov wrote:
G'day, Programmer In Training!
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 20:58:46 -0500, You wrote:
OK, I've read the mixer man page, the mic is set as recording source,
yet even with mic playback and (apparent) sensitivity to max, I barely
get anything recorded using
On 04/11/10 06:00, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:54:40 -0500, Programmer In Training
p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
Same thing, barely any pickup by the mic.
Is the microphone working, and is it compatible with
Yes
the connector (condenser / dynamic)? Does it provide
Yes
OK, I've read the mixer man page, the mic is set as recording source,
yet even with mic playback and (apparent) sensitivity to max, I barely
get anything recorded using Audacity. Am I missing something? Do I need
to use mixer -s =rec mic (I set it with mixer -S =rec, though it seems
either one
On 04/09/10 21:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand
new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it ...
If speakers on USB 2.0 card, all else on 1.x builtins
On 04/09/10 00:48, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:38:03 -0500, Programmer In Training
p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
Saturday I'll be adding a second 40GB and a tertiary 6GB disk to the
system (in favor of adding a CD-RW to a system that already has a DVD
super multi-format drive
On 04/09/10 02:17, Fbsd1 wrote:
Antonio Olivares wrote:
On 4/8/10, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
I have acquired a pair of Compaq USB /powered/ speakers. On my parents
XP machine they don't seem to cause any problems, but when I hook it up
to listen on my FreeBSD box
On 04/09/10 02:51, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
... they are only attached for power purposes ...
Input power: DC 5V 500mA
Any chance these speakers need a USB 2.0 port, and all the ports
The expansion card is 2.0
on your FreeBSD
On 04/09/10 06:25, Warren Block wrote:
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
... they are only attached for power purposes ...
Input power: DC 5V 500mA
Any chance these speakers need a USB 2.0 port, and all the ports
On 04/09/10 10:15, Brodey Dover wrote:
Apr 8 22:30:16 heaven kernel: usb_alloc_device:1624: getting device
descriptor at addr 3 failed, USB_ERR_IOERROR!
exactly! That is what is causing the issues. From what I can see, it
is like it was explained before. The OS has chosen to play nice and
On 04/09/10 15:24, Warren Block wrote:
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Programmer In Training wrote:
On 04/09/10 10:15, Brodey Dover wrote:
Apr 8 22:30:16 heaven kernel: usb_alloc_device:1624: getting device
descriptor at addr 3 failed, USB_ERR_IOERROR!
exactly! That is what is causing the issues
On 04/09/10 18:31, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
snip
Unless you insist on an operating system solution what you are really
after is a 5 volt supply. What about buying a mains USB charger of the
right capacity, or if you are handy with bits of wire have a look
I wouldn't know where to look for one.
On 04/09/10 19:58, mikel king wrote:
snip
Out of curiosity, have you tried an active USB 2.0 HUB to buffer the
speakers from the computer's USB ports? Or even a AC to USB adapter?
snip
I don't have one of either of those items. I only have a passive 2.0 HUB
(at least I think it's 2.0). Either
On 04/09/10 21:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand
new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it ...
If speakers on USB 2.0 card, all else on 1.x builtins
Saturday I'll be adding a second 40GB and a tertiary 6GB disk to the
system (in favor of adding a CD-RW to a system that already has a DVD
super multi-format drive). I'd like to rearrange my mount points a bit.
Here is my current fstab.
# DeviceMountpoint FStype
I have acquired a pair of Compaq USB /powered/ speakers. On my parents
XP machine they don't seem to cause any problems, but when I hook it up
to listen on my FreeBSD box I have absolutely nothing but problems with
the speakers (even when turned off but still plugged in) interrupting
the normal
On 04/08/10 21:29, Brodey Dover wrote:
I believe a call to iostat (there is something similar) you should see
a large amount of interrupts to your USB keyboard driver, at least
that is my assumption.
That is my assumption, too.
Unfortunately, I do not have USB powered speakers for me to test
On 04/08/10 21:34, Antonio Olivares wrote:
snip
Is your keyboard a usb keyboard?
Sorry, yes.
Could be a permissions problem?
I don't know what could be the problem. I have a USB mouse, keyboard,
and web cam all plugged into the same USB PCI card and I've not had any
problems until I plugged
On 04/08/10 23:23, Brodey Dover wrote:
Now that I think about it and have more context as to how things are
working. lshal output could be useful here as well.
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Brodey Dover dover...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you provide some dmesg output please?
snip
On 04/05/10 10:08, Walter wrote:
I want to parse ftp error messages in auth.log and use the
ip address in inserting a block into ipfw. It works, except
when ftpd spits out the host-specific url rather than the ip.
Adding -h to the ftpd command in inet.conf didn't help.
Can someone tell me
On 04/02/10 22:41, Paul Procacci wrote:
I'm in the same boat as you. I just finished installing video4bsd + webcamd +
skype, and skype isn't able to detect the webcam, while pwcview works fine.
Anyone have any thoughts on the matter?
___
On 03/28/10 09:46, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
snip
this scripts outputs the commands needed to fix the system
I'm having some problems with the script.
watch out
==
#!/bin/sh
endp() {
rm -f $t
exit $1
}
t=/tmp/$$
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
On 03/28/10 09:46, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
snip
this scripts outputs the commands needed to fix the system
snip
Thanks! I'll give it a whirl tomorrow.
--
Yours In Christ,
PIT
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
Original content copyright under the OWL
Ever since I installed jpeg-8 I have had nothing but problems.
I ran portupgrade -a hoping to take care of all those problems, well no
such luck.
Let's start with the first error I caught:
libqt
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libjpeg.so.10, needed by
/usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so, not found (try using
On 03/27/10 13:06, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
snip
In /usr/ports/UPDATING look for the 20100205 entry for users of Qt 3
and KDE 3.
Pointless in as far as that does not address the underlying problem of
rebuilding EVERYTHING that needs to link against the jpeg library. GIMP
and gegl failed because a
OK, so I got the disk mounted as it was. Then I used fdisk to reformat
it (probably not the best tool to do so, but it worked) to the default
FreeBSD fs as I have no plans on using it on a Windows box, ever.
[r...@heaven]mount /dev/afd0s1 /mnt/zip
mount: /dev/afd0s1 : Invalid argument
On 03/16/10 10:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us writes:
OK, so I got the disk mounted as it was. Then I used fdisk to reformat
it (probably not the best tool to do so, but it worked) to the default
FreeBSD fs as I have no plans on using
On 03/16/10 10:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us writes:
OK, so I got the disk mounted as it was. Then I used fdisk to reformat
it (probably not the best tool to do so, but it worked) to the default
FreeBSD fs as I have no plans on using
On 03/16/10 12:13, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us writes:
snip
That did it! Thanks (: Never had to run that command before when
formatting a disk (granted all I've ever formatted was a floppy disk on
a Linux box).
Good!
This is covered in the Adding
On 03/14/10 08:17, Jerry wrote:
snip
Add this to your /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC file: (or what ever you
have named it)
device atapicam
You then have to rebuild your kernel. You would probably be best
served by reading up on how to update FreeBSD. Starting at this URL
would
Ever since I updated from jpeg-7 to jpeg-8 and recompiled swftools to
link against it (FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE-p2), jpeg2swf segfaults with
jpeg2swf -q 100 -o test.swf *.jpg (at most 12 jpegs).
Running gdb jpeg2swf jpeg2swf.core reveals the following:
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free
On 03/14/10 19:19, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us writes:
Ever since I updated from jpeg-7 to jpeg-8 and recompiled swftools to
link against it (FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE-p2), jpeg2swf segfaults with
jpeg2swf -q 100 -o test.swf *.jpg (at most 12 jpegs
While not having been part of this discussion I just want to say thanks
for the tips. I've used them to cease using ntpdate as well and am
already synced with a time server I know to be constantly reliable.
--
Yours In Christ,
PIT
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may
On 03/13/10 13:08, RW wrote:
snip
ntpd_sync_on_start=YES
snip
you can run ntpdate at boot with
ntpdate_enable=YES
the rc script gets the servers from ntp.conf
Can you have both in rc.conf without abusing the ntp server(s) or should
it just be one or the other? I'd like my clock to be
On 03/13/10 21:35, Chris Hill wrote:
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Aiza wrote:
[snip]
tried cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=acd0 blank=fast
gives this error Open by devname not supported on this OS.
What device am i to use?
cdrecord wants to see your ATA burner as a SCSI device, so you'd use
cdrecord
I just freshly installed gpodder from ports (which I updated on
Tuesday), but I get the following errors thrown at me when I try to
start it:
gpodder
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/local/bin/gpodder, line 162, in module
from gpodder import gui
File
Why oh why are there projects that provide the same functionality and
files in the same locations? These two ports, avahi-libdns and
mDNSresponder, have given me nothing but PROBLEMS when using portmaster
to upgrade (or any other tool to install something else, such as KDE4).
Those two ports,
On 03/09/10 01:14, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
snip
I wonder if this can be done in FreeBSD?
http://www.technixupdate.com/install-tweetdeck-on-ubuntu-linux/
I've been working on that, but AIR chokes for one reason or another (see
previous emails in this thread).
--
Yours In Christ,
PIT
Emails
On 03/09/10 08:58, Emmanuel Opio wrote:
Hi,
Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our
server administrators blocked ftp and filtered out images, so we can not
download any image file, the most common extension for operating systems.
I was just requesting
Yes, I'm still having issues.
qwit is a joke. I can post just fine but it will not retrieve my feeds
for local display. Kind of makes it useless.
Twitux won't connect.
The others seem to be command line clients (the Pidgin Twitter plugin
doesn't work, either) which I am not looking for.
Does
On 03/08/10 21:31, Glen Barber wrote:
Hi,
Programmer In Training wrote:
[snip]
./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Error loading the runtime (libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory)
Have you tried the textproc/linux-libxml2 port?
Regards,
To be honest I
Now it's not detecting gnome-keyring (it's a requirement, and it is
installed).
Seriously, does anyone have a good Twitter client they use? I have very
simple requirements (GUI, must be able to pull my feeds for local
display, easy to compile (e.g. doesn't require anything from KDE)).
If not,
According to /usr/ports/UPDATING the Java plugin does not work in FF3.6.
Is this a Java issue, a FireFox issue or a FreeBSD issue? I just noticed
this today as I was going through looking through it because of the
thread about upgrading from perl5.8 to perl5.10 (the instructions in
UPDATING don't
On 03/06/10 16:57, Jerry wrote:
snip
Please check out this URL:
http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/firefox_newplugin.xml
I believer that the FreeBSD version of Java is several versions behind
that. Therefore, it would appear to be a FreeBSD problem.
I'll just wait for FreeBSD to update
I did manage to get freebsd-update to run, after a sort. Now my system
identifies as
FreeBSD heaven 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Jan 5
16:02:27 UTC 2010
r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
When I go to the ftp server to do any sort of updates
On 03/05/10 06:54, John wrote:
My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes
in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually
feel it in my network performance. Other than changing ssh to
a non-standard port - is there a way to deal with these? Every
On 03/05/10 08:46, Frank Shute wrote:
snip
If you read the manpage for xdm(1) you will see that the script that
is run on login is ~/.xsession
Try putting exec wmaker in there.
To run xdm from boot, you have to edit /etc/ttys and then:
# kill -HUP 1
Look at this:
On 03/04/10 17:43, Warren Block wrote:
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Polytropon wrote:
snip
As far as I know, earlier X installations came with the
tab window manager - twm. This doesn't seem to be the case
anymore.
twm is still enabled by default as part of the x11/xorg-apps port.
I can confirm
On 03/03/10 16:15, Aaron Lewis wrote:
snip
Here's some suggestions , don't choose ATI video cards. ( No UNIX
Drivers .. )
Well , i'm on ThinkPad R400 , ATI Mobile HD 3400 and an integrated Video
Card ,
FBSD doesn't boot when i switched to ATI Video card.
Is this only true of more recent
On 03/02/10 11:35, Chris Rees wrote:
snip
Why does it make a difference with the prefix on where you put them?
You shouldn't manually delete ports, anyway. You should deinstall them
using the port...
Chris
I think he's talking about how with Debian and apt you can specify
different
Resend: Sorry if this has appeared twice before. First time sent at
11:13 CST, sent a second time at 12:43 CST. Sending this one at
approximately 21:37 CST, CCing owner because this (posting new mails to
the list) is an on going problem I'm having. I would like to know what
the problem is so I can
Resent: Originally sent over one hour ago.
I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Just about 10 minutes ago my
mouse locked up and stopped responding, eventually forcing me to reboot
because I couldn't get it to start responding again. I even had to
unplug it from the USB port (it is a USB
I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Just about 10 minutes ago my
mouse locked up and stopped responding, eventually forcing me to reboot
because I couldn't get it to start responding again. I even had to
unplug it from the USB port (it is a USB mouse) and plug it back in
because it lost
On 02/27/10 12:22, Jon Radel wrote:
On 2/27/10 2:58 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 27/02/2010 24:50:54, Citra Cool wrote:
can i selling free bsd for my profit??
is it legal??
In a word, yes -- sure you can.
All you have to do is abide by the
On 02/25/10 12:37, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have a logitech quickcam.
Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported.
On 02/25/10 15:09, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us writes:
Since the advisories from Mozilla[0-1] have been released, and updates
for at least FireFox and Thunderbird are available, when will they be
made available via ports (especially FF 3.6 TB 3.0.2
On 02/25/10 12:37, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have a logitech quickcam.
Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported.
On 02/19/10 03:05, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 18/02/2010 21:26, Programmer In Training wrote:
snip
Possibly not the most secure permissions but I don't remember the
default (I think it's 644).
Nope. For directories it's 755. You need the x permission on a
directory to chdir to it.
I
On 02/25/10 12:37, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have a logitech quickcam.
Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported.
OK, after some searching (while not the best search engine around,
Startpage comes up a winner more often than not if there is anything
relevant to be found) I've come up (almost) empty handed[0-1].
Everything else I've found so far for IOMEGA ZIP100 drives deals with
the external drive (either
On 02/19/10 14:26, Programmer In Training wrote:
On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote:
snip
And don't miss the documentation about getting Flash
stuff running:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
That all worked except for the last command:
nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
On 02/19/10 14:48, Frank Wißmann wrote:
Hello!
Programmer In Training schrieb:
On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:09 -0600, Programmer In Training
p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and
reinstall, making
On 02/25/10 17:31, Boris Samorodov wrote:
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:18:21 -0600 Programmer In Training wrote:
As of the last time I updated ports (the 22nd) I was prevented from
installing Firefox because of the vulnerabilities.
You may be looking at the wrong place. Please, take a look
On 02/19/10 15:27, Adam Vande More wrote:
snip
Better yet, update your ports tree and install the current version
Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just
fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but
that errors out, too.
--
Yours In
On 02/19/10 15:34, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Programmer In Training
p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just
fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but
that errors out, too
On 02/22/10 14:32, Programmer In Training wrote:
Second attempt to post this to the list. Please bear with me as I'm
having issues with my posts to the list not always making it through.
OK, after some searching I've come up (almost) empty handed[0-1].
Everything else I've found so far
On 02/23/10 11:42, Tim Judd wrote:
Could be due to that the zip disks have a partition defined.
ls /dev/afd0*
file -s /dev/afd0
That did it. I didn't know how to define the partition. Now to format it.
--
Yours In Christ,
PIT
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses
Second attempt to post this to the list. Please bear with me as I'm
having issues with my posts to the list not always making it through.
OK, after some searching I've come up (almost) empty handed[0-1].
Everything else I've found so far for IOMEGA ZIP100 drives deals with
the external drive
On 02/21/10 03:58, Polytropon wrote:
snip
I've often been told that portmaster would be a good choice.
I've used portinstall / portupgrade in the past, but have to
say that I honestly prefer pkg_add -r for simplicity. :-)
I'm running portmaster right now to check for new packages and
Sorry this hasn't been made clear, seems that the list is dropping some
of my emails, but this issue has been solved. I'll post the answer here
and hopefully the list will pick it up this time (or at least deliver it
to me so I know it's been delivered):
On 02/19/10 03:05, Matthew Seaman wrote:
I'm trying to install k3b from ports so I might use my DVD super multi
format drive (an HP 1040i; I've already added the necessary line to
/boot/default/loader.conf for enabling dma) with either the gui or cli
but during the install of libthai (which is a dependency of kimproxy
which is a
During installation I didn't realize I would need linux emulation to get
decent flash support or Skype (didn't even realize Skype was available
for linux).
It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and
reinstall, making sure to opt for linux emulation from the get go. So
I'm
On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:09 -0600, Programmer In Training
p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and
reinstall, making sure to opt for linux emulation from the get go.
It is not needed to reinstall
On 02/19/10 14:50, Programmer In Training wrote:
snip
That all worked except for the last command:
nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
Even directly symlinking to
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
Isn't helping (it's not showing up in about plugins).
Creating
I am using the non-ports version of Apache. I downloaded 2.2.14 from
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi#apache22 just a little while ago. I
compiled, installed, got it running with minimal fuss. The issue is with
my user directories (e.g. $HOME/public_html ). I uncommented the line to
include
On 02/18/10 13:21, Chuck Swiger wrote:
snip
Apache is going to look up the home directories specified in
/etc/passwd via getpwent() or similar. If allowed, it would chase a
Then it shouldn't even bother with having a setting for specifying the
path to user directories (or at least that
On 02/18/10 13:46, Chuck Swiger wrote:
snip
Whether the path to user home directories is honored or whether
Apache goes somewhere else for HTTP requests for /~user/foo.html
depends on what you set UserDir to:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_userdir.html
It's possible that using:
On 02/18/10 14:54, Craig Whipp wrote:
snip
What are the permissions for your $HOME and $HOME/public_html? The user
that apache is running as must be able read from these directories.
- Craig
drwxr-xr-x 49 user1 user1 1536 Feb 18 14:31 user1/
drwxr-xr-x 18 user1 user1 2560 Feb 14
First time I installed FreeBSD (yes, there was a first time, I managed
to hose the root account and had to start over again) I was asked
something about whether or not my vid card was PCI or AGP. I answered
AGP (as that is all I have that is halfway decent). I had Xorg up and
running with minimum
On 1/29/2010 4:30 PM, Charlie Kester wrote:
snip
I'm not sure why Xorg isn't seeing your video card. Do you see a device
named agpgart in /dev? If not, it probably means the agp module
couldn't identify your card when you last booted the machine. What's
the make and model of your card, and
I've done some searching on the Thunderbird (TB) website and have posted
the question at one of their support forums, but I felt I should ask
here, too, just in case someone else has confronted this.
I only use POP3 to retrieve email (the merits of POP3 vs IMAP not
withstanding) and store locally
On 1/27/2010 9:42 PM, Randy Woy wrote:
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I made the same migration in the opposite direction. It's a straight
copy from one system to the other. I copied my FreeBSD Thunderbird
archives to Windows 7 Thunderbird on a dual boot system using a USB
memory key.
Copy the contents of
On 1/24/2010 12:00 AM, Warren Block wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Programmer In Training wrote:
This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your
forgiveness.
I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking
for drivers for my winWiFi card (zonenet
On 1/23/2010 10:51 PM, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:35:32 -0600, Programmer In Training
p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
I hope ifconfig will help more then dmesg as I have no way of getting
files (like dmesg.log that I created) off the box (floppy drive isn't
even hooked up, IIRC
Do not CC me. I am subscribed to the list. There is no need. THANK YOU.
On 1/24/2010 6:22 AM, Roland Smith wrote:
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zgrep Libertas /usr/share/man/man4/*
/usr/share/man/man4/if_malo.4.gz:.Nd Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g
wireless network driver
So go and read if_malo(4). It looks like
On 1/24/2010 6:27 AM, Programmer In Training wrote:
Do not CC me. I am subscribed to the list. There is no need. THANK YOU.
On 1/24/2010 6:22 AM, Roland Smith wrote:
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zgrep Libertas /usr/share/man/man4/*
/usr/share/man/man4/if_malo.4.gz:.Nd Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g
wireless
On 1/24/2010 6:35 PM, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:13:05 -0600, Programmer In Training
p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
I'll post here later on today, after
I've burned the file to disc (no floppy drive on either computer).
No possibility to transfer the file via wired network
On 1/24/2010 9:55 PM, Programmer In Training wrote:
On 1/24/2010 6:35 PM, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:13:05 -0600, Programmer In Training
p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
I'll post here later on today, after
I've burned the file to disc (no floppy drive on either computer
This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your
forgiveness.
I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking
for drivers for my winWiFi card (zonenet, unsure of chipset currently)
and realized, I'm not sure what package I would need for that. I didn't
set
On 1/23/2010 10:05 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
Programmer In Training wrote:
This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your
forgiveness.
Nope, this is the right place.
Awesome
I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking
for drivers for my winWiFi
On 1/23/2010 10:07 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
Glen Barber wrote:
What is listed with ifconfig(8)? That will help determine the driver (if
it is supported).
Oops... Meant to say dmesg; perhaps ifconfig will help as well, though.
Regards,
I hope ifconfig will help more then dmesg as I
On 1/23/2010 10:26 PM, Programmer In Training wrote:
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#ifconfig
rl0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8VLAN_MTU
ether 00:40:ca:35:6c:09
media: ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
plip0: flags=8810POINTTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST
On 1/5/2010 1:30 AM, Programmer In Training wrote:
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The message I'm getting (wish I could just screen cap and put it up on
the web):
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu, Sat Nov 21 14:05:36 UTC 2009)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/boot/kernel
The issue was in my BIOS, of all places. I was going to see if I could
do install from a Gentoo LiveCD from April 2k8, and it kept on hanging
near the beginning and lighting up all the lights on my keyboard (caps,
num and scroll lock). So I went into the BIOS, loaded optimized
defaults, changed a
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