Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote:
Sun's OpenWin (X11+Motif+DPS extension, IIRC) ...
I'm fairly sure OpenWin did not include Motif, at least initially
(although it may have been added later -- my experience with OpenWin
ended with SunOS 4). olwm had a look and feel all its own.
When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager)
Tom's Window Manager? A great little wm :)
http://www.cpcnw.co.uk/twm/twmrc.htm
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Sent: Fri, June 10, 2011 8:24:23 PM
Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg
--As of June 10, 2011 4:26:27 PM -0700, John or Judy
On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Bill Tillman wrote:
I have installed and configured Xorg many times on several different
machines.
When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager) [ ... ]
twm doesn't stand for Trivial Window Manager-- it stands for Tom's Window
Manager because it
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:25:02 -0700, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote:
On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Bill Tillman wrote:
I have installed and configured Xorg many times on several different
machines.
When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager) [ ... ]
twm doesn't stand
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote:
twm doesn't stand for Trivial Window Manager-- it stands for Tom's Window
Manager because it was written by Tom LaStrange on Sun-3_35 or 3_50 hardware
back around X11R1.
Stood for, you mean. It evolved to Tab Window
On Jun 12, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Polytropon wrote:
twm doesn't stand for Trivial Window Manager-- it stands
for Tom's Window Manager because it was written by Tom
LaStrange on Sun-3_35 or 3_50 hardware back around X11R1.
Without any further investigation and research, my
brain seems to
From: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com
To: Polytropon free...@edvax.de
Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 2:43:16 PM
Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg
I stand corrected. Tab Window Manager
I'm having trouble getting Xorg to run on my just recently installed FreeBSD
7.4-RELEASE(i386) system. I'm trying to follow the procedures in Sections 5.3
and 5.4 of the Handbook and can't seem to get startx to fire up; I get a
black screen when I try. Here's what I've done so far:
1.
--As of June 10, 2011 4:26:27 PM -0700, John or Judy Hixson is alleged to
have said:
I'm having trouble getting Xorg to run on my just recently installed
FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE(i386) system. I'm trying to follow the procedures in
Sections 5.3 and 5.4 of the Handbook and can't seem to get startx
On 6/11/11 7:26 AM, John or Judy Hixson wrote:
I'm having trouble getting Xorg to run on my just recently installed FreeBSD
[snip]
Would appreciate anyone's suggestions. Thanks. John Hixson
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Hello all...
Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide.
I am trying to get source code built for an application called HIPPO Viewer
The source and instructions for building are written for Linux
You can see what I have attempted to do to get this installed at:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:51PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install
FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk
controller)?
I've been trying for a week or so now, with no luck. Just out of
On 10 Oct 2008 at 22:08, Brian wrote:
Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install
FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk
controller)?
I've been trying for a week or so now, with no luck. Just out of
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:17:24 -0700
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
People will use whatever gets the job done for them. If it doesn't,
users *will* switch to another operating system, and there is
absolutely nothing wrong with that. Why? Because reality states:
solving problems is
they're committing a sin by using another operating system. Open source
is about freedom of choice -- if FreeBSD doesn't work for you or get the
job done, and Linux does, then use Linux! If Windows works for you, use
Windows! There's absolutely no shame in that. Blind, one-sided
except when
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:51PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install
FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk
controller)?
This information is too vague. We need to know *exactly*:
1) What
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:44:03PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
they're committing a sin by using another operating system. Open source
is about freedom of choice -- if FreeBSD doesn't work for you or get the
job done, and Linux does, then use Linux! If Windows works for you, use
Windows!
Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install
FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk
controller)?
I've been trying for a week or so now, with no luck. Just out of
curiosity, I downloaded and ran Ubuntu 8.x, and it recognized all of
my hardware
Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install
FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk
controller)?
I've been trying for a week or so now, with no luck. Just out of
curiosity, I downloaded and ran Ubuntu 8.x, and it
Hi there,
I wanna install Open Office through pkg_add because I've a slow band width.
But I can't find it in the ports collection.
In www.freshports.org they say I can install it by typing this pkg_add -r
openoffice.org. But I don't know how to configure pkg_add or fetch to
download the package
El día Thursday, August 21, 2008 a las 11:08:21AM -0400, Robe escribió:
Hi there,
I wanna install Open Office through pkg_add because I've a slow band width.
But I can't find it in the ports collection.
In www.freshports.org they say I can install it by typing this pkg_add -r
installed.
Vince
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I was wondering if anyone would know of a brute force way of installing the
(newest possible) sun JDK on FreeBSD 5.0 (or any other versions for further
info)
Help a freeBSD user in need :teeth:
The latest version in ports is 1.6.0.3p4 if you need more receent
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Hi,
Im trying to install the Netwide Assembler (nasm) in such a way:
# cd /usr/ports/devel/nasm
# make
But I get the following error:
= Couldnt fetch it please try to retrieve this port manually into
/usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
*** Error code 1
Im using the
On Thursday 15 March 2007 18:59:05 Robe wrote:
Hi,
Im trying to install the Netwide Assembler (nasm) in such a way:
# cd /usr/ports/devel/nasm
# make
But I get the following error:
= Couldnt fetch it please try to retrieve this port manually into
/usr/ports/distfiles/ and
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Robe wrote:
Hi,
Im trying to install the Netwide Assembler (nasm) in such a way:
# cd /usr/ports/devel/nasm
# make
But I get the following error:
= Couldnt fetch it please try to retrieve this port manually into
/usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
***
Robe wrote:
And I’m behind a proxy. What can I do?
Try following what this guy did. It sounds like you're having the same
problem (i.e. fetch not working with a proxy):
http://cyberjames.pbwiki.com/FreeBSD:%20Installing%20ports%20via%20proxy
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Hello,
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 try again.
On 11/23/06, VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/23/06, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
VeeJay wrote:
Hi
If I will install Apache2 from the Port, how can I configure to add
module
or disable modules?
Like if I want to enable following modules, how can I do them VIA
Hi
If I will install Apache2 from the Port, how can I configure to add module
or disable modules?
Like if I want to enable following modules, how can I do them VIA Ports?
Please find below the text from this Step-by-Step guide I am using. But that
procedure is for manually downloading the
VeeJay wrote:
Hi
If I will install Apache2 from the Port, how can I configure to add
module
or disable modules?
Like if I want to enable following modules, how can I do them VIA Ports?
Please find below the text from this Step-by-Step guide I am using.
But that
procedure is for manually
Frank Staals wrote:
VeeJay wrote:
If I will install Apache2 from the Port, how can I configure to add
module
or disable modules?
If we can configure in Port, so where it could be done and how? and
if its
in a file, where it would be placed?
go to the apache2 dir in your portstree (
On 11/23/06, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
VeeJay wrote:
Hi
If I will install Apache2 from the Port, how can I configure to add
module
or disable modules?
Like if I want to enable following modules, how can I do them VIA Ports?
Please find below the text from this Step-by-Step
Thanks everyone that has helped me. Ok, so I checked the ISO image and it
was perfectly fine. So I checked the ribbon cable and it actually is a
40-conductor
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Thanks everyone that has helped me. Ok, so I checked the ISO image and it
was perfectly fine. So I checked the ribbon cable and it actually is a
40-conductor IDE cable. So this means that I need to change it for an UDMA
(80 conductor)?? Oh, and when I change it, do I
adrian esquivel wrote:
Sorry for the last message...
Thanks everyone that has helped me. Ok, so I checked the ISO image and it
was perfectly fine. So I checked the ribbon cable and it actually is a
40-conductor IDE cable. So this means that I need to change it for an
UDMA
(80 conductor)?? Oh,
adrian esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had similar errors reported when I tried to install FreeBSD from a
CDRom drive which was connected to the motherboard with a standard
udma(33?) ribbon cable (Yes write errors). Make sure your connectors
are the better 80 conductor ones.
Thanks John but
I'm sorry, I think I didn't explain it very well...
When I choose the media type, a message is shown warning that '...this is
the last chance... we can take no responsabillity. I hit 'ok' and then a
message appears saying 'writing partitions...' and a few seconds later
appears one message saying
I've got a Maxtor of 60GB as primary master. My geometry is wrongly
reported
by the installation program, it reports a geometry of 119108/16/63 while
the
BIOS reports one of
1024/240/63.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a long-time bug in the installer.
I've installed several times
If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a long-time bug in the installer.
I've installed several times seeing this error and never had a problem.
However, to be safe you could always manually specify the geometry of your
disk in the fdisk utility during install.
I'm confused. At what point are
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If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a long-time bug in the installer.
I've installed several times seeing this error
adrian esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi! I've been trying to install FBSD on my computer, but I keep getting an
error message that I have absolutely no idea what it means. This is what I
get when I hit Alt+F2
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap
I had similar errors reported when I tried to install FreeBSD from a
CDRom drive which was connected to the motherboard with a standard
udma(33?) ribbon cable (Yes write errors). Make sure your connectors
are the better 80 conductor ones.
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Thanks John but how do I do that??
Hi! I've been trying to install FBSD on my computer, but I keep getting an
error message that I have absolutely no idea what it means. This is what I
get when I hit Alt+F2
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC
Igor Robul wrote:
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:36:08AM +, Robert Slade wrote:
There are some minor issues with nvida video 3d cards but there are
nvida drivers for BSD. ATI cards are a bit more of a problem. In both
cases search the mailing list archives the info is there.
I dont
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:04:01PM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote:
1) once you installed the graphics/dri , how do you enable them in
xorg.conf?
Unfortunately I cannot tell you about configuration you need for 855G,
but at least you need load kernel module for 855G, and place
Load dri
Load glx
to
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:36:08AM +, Robert Slade wrote:
There are some minor issues with nvida video 3d cards but there are
nvida drivers for BSD. ATI cards are a bit more of a problem. In both
cases search the mailing list archives the info is there.
I dont see any problems with ATI
I am VERY new on FeeBSD and I installed it using the
standard option. How can have freeBSD 6.0 runing on
GUI? Is there any step by step proceedure?
Thanks for any help.
--Alex
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Alexandre Adao wrote:
I am VERY new on FeeBSD and I installed it using the
standard option. How can have freeBSD 6.0 runing on
GUI? Is there any step by step proceedure?
Thanks for any help.
--Alex
Read the following:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html
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I am VERY new on FeeBSD and I installed it using the
standard option. How can have freeBSD 6.0 runing on
GUI? Is there any step by step proceedure?
Thanks for any help.
--Alex
Alex,
Welcome
Every thing you should need to know is in the
I have all the ISO's burned to a CD, but when I put the boot disk in to
install, after I restart, it goes to the normal windows. I've already tried
going to the BIOS settings, but nothing there helped me. What do I do now?
Corey Farwell
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At 11:57 PM 7/25/2005, Corey Farwell wrote:
I have all the ISO's burned to a CD, but when I put the boot disk in to
install, after I restart, it goes to the normal windows.
More info about your hardware would help. Are you unable to boot from the
CD? or are you adding FreeBSD as a second
At 01:57 7/26/2005, Corey Farwell, wrote:
I have all the ISO's burned to a CD, but when I put the boot disk in to
install, after I restart, it goes to the normal windows. I've already tried
going to the BIOS settings, but nothing there helped me. What do I do now?
Corey Farwell
Hey Corey,
In
At 01:57 7/26/2005, Corey Farwell, wrote:
I have all the ISO's burned to a CD, but when I put the boot disk in to
install, after I restart, it goes to the normal windows. I've already tried
going to the BIOS settings, but nothing there helped me. What do I do now?
Corey Farwell
Try hitting
Corey Farwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have all the ISO's burned to a CD, but when I put the boot disk in to
install, after I restart, it goes to the normal windows. I've already tried
going to the BIOS settings, but nothing there helped me. What do I do now?
You can download two
I have setup a headless system. I connect to the system from another
machine using a ssh client. I have set the headless machine to allow me
to login at root. I am able to login and edit files , except I can not
ping outside my network or install ports, b/c it won't allow it to
access the
Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 08:41 PM:
I have setup a headless system. I connect to the system from another
machine using a ssh client. I have set the headless machine to allow me
to login at root. I am able to login and edit files , except I can not
ping outside my network or install ports,
Brad Tarver wrote:
Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 08:41 PM:
I have setup a headless system. I connect to the system from another
machine using a ssh client. I have set the headless machine to allow
me to login at root. I am able to login and edit files , except I can
not ping outside my
Brad Tarver wrote:
Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 09:02 PM:
Brad Tarver wrote:
Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 08:41 PM:
I have setup a headless system. I connect to the system from
another machine using a ssh client. I have set the headless machine
to allow me to login at root. I am able to
Bruce Hunter wrote:
Brad Tarver wrote:
Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 09:02 PM:
Brad Tarver wrote:
Check /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/rc.conf for your defaultrouter entry.
my defaultrouter entry is set to my router ip, any other ideas?
hmmm.
what are you trying to ping? an ip address or a
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
Bruce Hunter wrote:
Brad Tarver wrote:
Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 09:02 PM:
Brad Tarver wrote:
Check /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/rc.conf for your defaultrouter entry.
my defaultrouter entry is set to my router ip, any other ideas?
hmmm.
what are
Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 09:09 PM:
I am pinging b/c I am testing. I am trying to install a port. When a
port installs, it downloads the required files. Whenever I try, I get an
error b/c it can't download any of the files needed for the port. This
happens with all ports. On top of that I
Brad Tarver wrote:
Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 09:09 PM:
I am pinging b/c I am testing. I am trying to install a port. When a
port installs, it downloads the required files. Whenever I try, I get
an error b/c it can't download any of the files needed for the port.
This happens with all
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:21:22AM -0400, ALIAS wrote:
i am trying to install this program called glib-2.2.3 and it need a program
that i don't have so i downloaded it and installed it. it's called
libiconv-1.9.1 it says in the readme file that after installing it i should
do the following.
i am trying to install this program called glib-2.2.3 and it need a program
that i don't have so i downloaded it and installed it. it's called
libiconv-1.9.1 it says in the readme file that after installing it i should
do the following.
After installing GNU libiconv for the first time, it is
I am running netscape v.7.0.2 that i d/l from netscape.com under the linux emulation
on freebsd-5.1. I would like to use the chat features a yahoo and be able to do online
banking which requires java. Netscape redirected me to suns page to d/l the java below:
* Joey Hogan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
== yo, I downloaded a freebsd .iso img, and put in in my drive, but when I reseted,
it wouldn't install, how do I get past this?
Which .iso did you download, for which version of FreeBSD? What software did you use
to burn
the file to CD? What do you
yo, I downloaded a freebsd .iso img, and put in in my drive,
but when I reseted, it wouldn't install,
Yo.
Don't take this the wrong way, but this is a really really bad
trouble report. You are very unlikely to get any responses.
Did you burn a CD or just download the image?
Did you get any error
yo, I downloaded a freebsd .iso img, and put in in my drive, but when I reseted, it
wouldn't install, how do I get past this?
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Hi all,
I am new to the FreeBSD community, I want to install
FreeBSD in my lab and I am getting problems installing
it.
I am trying to install Free-BSD on a Pentium-II
machine with 10 GB hard disk space.
I have downloaded the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp and
image copied them on to the floppies and
You can download the .iso image here:
ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.7/
then burn that image to a CD. It is for the i386 arch.
Jon
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:56, venkat reddy wrote:
Hi all,
I am new to the FreeBSD community, I want to install
FreeBSD in my lab and I am
My question is If I want to load it from a CD. What
should I write on the CD from the ftp site. I am too
confused with the directories in the ftp site.
Download the ISO image.
ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.7
You will need only first ISO image. You will need a cd
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