Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-13 Thread Gary Kline
, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org

Re: need help with BElkin KVM and USB mouse problems.

2010-10-13 Thread Gary Kline
Block's site. http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html cheers, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:11:22PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:29:31 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I just noticed that in rc.conf is: # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Wed Oct 13 08:03:06 2010 moused_port=/dev/ums0 moused_type=auto

need help with BElkin KVM and USB mouse problems.

2010-10-12 Thread Gary Kline
with hardware is a bit dicey. Any ideas how I can get X _with_ mouse+keyboard working on my BSD platforms? tia, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http

Re: need help with BElkin KVM and USB mouse problems.

2010-10-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:09:43PM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 12.10.2010 um 20:17 schrieb Gary Kline: The USB keyboard works fine everywhere. But my USB mouse fails on the FreeBSD platforms when I try to run X11. I *have* managed to get the mouse working without X [i.e., in console

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Gary Kline
New issues below... On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:43:26AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:30:02 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: The guy who set up my KVM/mouse deal thinks I would be better off just having a service do my hosting; I am close

Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed...

2009-11-30 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:47:28PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:30:18 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: { One far, far OT question here: who can explain what dovecot is/does? why it even exists? I'm familiar with MTA's, like sendmail; likewise

Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed...

2009-11-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:33:04AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:57:58PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Altho I am still some time from having my migration from the 1998 Kayak - 2009 Dell done and working, will it be possible to upgrade my 32bit 7.2-R, p4

Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed...

2009-11-27 Thread Gary Kline
was just a pondering; wondering if it might be better to re-do stuff now, But then my new server still isn't finished and probably won't be until next week. So best to stick with what I'm familar with. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http

Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed...

2009-11-26 Thread Gary Kline
-- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:24:07PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 12 June 2009 08:24:42 pm Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:45:01PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: On 12 Jun 2009, at 6:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 11 June 2009 9:33:24 pm Dan Allen wrote: Whew

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-13 Thread Gary Kline
-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-12 Thread Gary Kline
known. i rebuilt my kernel in very recent days (7.2) on my ancient 500MHz kayak, but did not go further. So still runing on the 7.0 kernel. Will someone send up a flare when it's *safe*? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http

Re: sed and comma-delimited file

2006-09-22 Thread Gary Kline
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Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-15 Thread Gary Kline
his mistake in a reasonable amount of time?' ... ? -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-14 Thread Gary Kline
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Re: Thanks!

2006-09-14 Thread Gary Kline
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Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-13 Thread Gary Kline
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Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:26:03PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:15:04AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:46:05PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 12:38:13PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: This is not cool folks

Re: optimization levels for 6-STABLE build{kernel,world}

2006-09-13 Thread Gary Kline
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Re: optimization levels for 6-STABLE build{kernel,world}

2006-09-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:25:35PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 13, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Gary Kline wrote: A couple of things. Will having gcc unroll loops have any negative consequences? Yes, it certainly can have negative consequences. The primary intent of using

Re: optimization levels for 6-STABLE build{kernel,world}

2006-09-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:07:35AM +1000, Tony Maher wrote: Gary Kline wrote: deleted A couple of things. Will having gcc unroll loops have any negative consequences? (I can't imagine how:: but better informed than to have something crash inexplicability.) With 6

Re: optimization levels for 6-STABLE build{kernel,world}

2006-09-13 Thread Gary Kline
: *Bzzz* Point well taken. -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: a place for configuration files

2006-03-22 Thread Gary Kline
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Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-16 Thread Gary Kline
minor security tweaks be maintained indefinitely for 5.5? What will releases -6 and -7 offer that can;t reasonably be dropped into -5? gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-16 Thread Gary Kline
. Maybe we should consider something like this. A series of hard stress tests as well as objective benchmarks as we go forward. It would give one some metrics... . gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-16 Thread Gary Kline
. This is valid for minor and major releases of course. How about it? Are you volunteering to post the TODO lists here on -stable every N months? I think it's a great idea to have some clues about where we're going, or hope to be going. gary -- Gary Kline

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 01:42:55PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:41:49AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I didn't move until 5 until 5.2+; it was a major move. There were lots of things to get-right. So maybe by 6.5, 6 will be granite stable. (Disclaimer: I

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Gary Kline
because they have those touch/scratch mouse-pad things that I can't use. So:: does anybody know of a ThinkPad clone? Or, can the touch pads be disabled in the bios? thanks for any clues, guys, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Gary Kline
to find another one without XBill's stuff. thanks! gary - Bartosz -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:05:05PM +0100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 23 November 2005 at 11:42:17 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:19:07PM +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: Or, can the touch pads be disabled in the bios? I have a Dell Inspiron 8600C, which

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:36:07PM -0500, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Gary Kline thusly... I'm looking for a newer laptop (a newer, faster ThinkPad, probably). There are ' some seriously cheap laptops on-sale, but they would probably be a bad choice because they have

Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

2005-05-19 Thread Gary Kline
think about thr billions of advantages. gary (aka 45689334177027483315780) -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

2005-05-18 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:05:04PM +0400, Andrey Smirnov wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Well, (Gary said, ddeliberately changing the ^Subject:), interesting. My mother's parents are from Hungary, two of my dad's grandparents from Germany. Didn't know about Hungary

Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

2005-05-17 Thread Gary Kline
a 'primitive f*ckhead', I answer to just about anything:) -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: OT: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

2005-05-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 08:17:10PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:37:37AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Anybody on this geek list know any other societies where the surname is traditionally presented first and the given name last? Geek list ? Ah

Re: Xorg 6.8.1

2005-02-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:36:43AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:12, Gary Kline wrote: How about adjusting the configuration then? There is utterly no xorg.conf file; the xorg probes set the resolution to the max (1600x1200), and the display `quivers

Re: Xorg 6.8.1

2005-02-26 Thread Gary Kline
up. What xorg* ports do I have to pkg_delete before I cd to /usr/ports/x11/XFree-4 and type a 'make install'? thanks much, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix

Re: Xorg 6.8.1

2005-02-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 10:41:33PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Saturday, 26. February 2005 22:19, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:49:00PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Saturday, 26. February 2005 13:05, Godwin Stewart wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:25:24 +1030

Re: Xorg 6.8.1

2005-02-26 Thread Gary Kline
that. Thanks. I did make the change in make.conf, but only after things began breaking when I tried to rebuild XFree86-4. If/when I try again, I'll set that variable first! gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix

Re: re Galeon

2002-04-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:51:49AM -0300, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 00:04, Gary Kline wrote: This ought to save me grief++, thanks. I tried to update `gnomecanvas' and it died not finding libintl.a (at least that was what

re Galeon

2002-04-23 Thread Gary Kline
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Re: wordperfect

2002-04-06 Thread Gary Kline
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Re: OpenOffice for FreeBSD

2001-12-07 Thread Gary Kline
employee who would be good to get in touch with? When you gentlemen get things set up, give me a write ([EMAIL PROTECTED]); I've got 22+ years of porting experience. Should be useful with parts of this. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New windowmaker install bombs...

2001-07-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 10:12:01PM -0400, Eric Rivas wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please excuse the slight OT note, but this is to whomever put up the latest windowmaker version. Because I'm going to run it on my

could netscape hose my dialup modem traffic?

2000-11-30 Thread Gary Kline
This latest began only after I ungraded to 4.X (I'm currently at 4.1 and content). The problem is that occasionally my dialup thru-put drops to 5 or 10bps. Trying to get anything done via telecommuting is virtually impossible. One thing I thought it might be is the ``stray

how noe Brown Ports!

2000-10-14 Thread Gary Kline
Well, it bit me, even tho I'm upgraded to 4.1 on both FBSD platforms. Trying to do a make install of a port, I get:: # make install Error: your port uses an old layout. Please update it to match this bsd.port.mk. *** Error code 1 I see the new pkg-* files and have removed

Re: FreeBSD ignoring /etc/rc.conf

2000-10-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:35:40PM +0200, Noor Dawod wrote: Hi Marius, I once had a similar problem. The solution was that one of the many /etc/rc.* (a hunch: check /etc/rc.firewall) is not properly reading /etc/defaults/rc.donf correctly, and this is causing mis-understanding in your box.

Re: pcm driver

2000-09-25 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:18:38AM +0200, Roman Shterenzon wrote: Quoting Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: According to Daniel O'Connor: On 25-Sep-00 Gary Kline wrote: ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 sbc0: Soundblaster 16 at port 0x220-0x22f irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 on isa0

Re: pcm driver

2000-09-25 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:23:04AM +1000, Phil Homewood wrote: Dave Edmondson wrote: I finally got a Sound Blaster 16 non-PnP model working. Both pcm and sbc had to be in the old ISA: pcm0at isa? ... sbc0at isa? ... ...format. After remaking sbc0,

Re: pcm driver

2000-09-25 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 05:44:33PM -0500, Dave Uhring wrote: On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Phil Homewood wrote: Dave Edmondson wrote: I finally got a Sound Blaster 16 non-PnP model working. Both pcm and sbc had to be in the old ISA: pcm0 at isa? ... sbc0 at

SB16 on irq 5

2000-09-25 Thread Gary Kline
Well, at least part of the problem is that my network card and my sound card are on irq 5. Time to buy a new PnP SB16, I guess. gary -- Gary D. Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

pcm driver

2000-09-24 Thread Gary Kline
After more than an hour tracking down a bug in an X program--yes, I should have used gdb immediately, I found it was due to my KERNEL not being set up for sound. I am still using my SB16. Okay, I copied over the below which was in my FreeBSD-3.2 KERNEL file and tried to

Re: problems with make world (Sunday)

2000-09-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:20:17AM +0200, Jean-Francois Dockes wrote: Gary Kline writes: For the record, I just cvsup'ed this morning Monday, 04sep00) and buildworld hangs here: === objdump ... cc -O -pipe -D_GNU_SOURCE -I- -I. -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/objdump

STABLE once again stable...

2000-08-31 Thread Gary Kline
The news that was posted this morning was correct. 4.1 is back. I just finished a complete upgrade from 4.0 to 4.1 that was entire remote. gary -- Gary D. Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: mouse question....

2000-08-25 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:57:27PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Hi, Y'all, This is a long shot, but here goes. --On my other FBSD system which is as 4.0, the mouse won't work. A friend just checked the hardware ports, switched the mouse from

mouse question....

2000-08-24 Thread Gary Kline
Hi, Y'all, This is a long shot, but here goes. --On my other FBSD system which is as 4.0, the mouse won't work. A friend just checked the hardware ports, switched the mouse from COM1 to COM2. (COM2 or, in the case of my modem, /dev/cuaa1, is working.) Zip; nothing.

4.1 /etc/rc.conf and IPv6...

2000-08-22 Thread Gary Kline
This is for the net gurus on this list. My 4.1 stuff builds-- though *not* matching the src/UPDATING instructions exactly. Everything looks go for a `shutdown now' to single-usr or a reboot and boot -s. Can I just drop in my current `ifconfig ed1' line (as ed0')? how do

bad /dev/cuaa1??

2000-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
This is rather bizarre. I have two virtually identical USR modems; I also have vitually identical ppp and tip and cu setup--I just copied over tarballs from this system to sage.thought.org. According to ppp: Warning: deflink: /dev/cuaa1: Bad file descriptor tip and

Re: bad /dev/cuaa1??

2000-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 12:04:06PM +0930, Greg Work wrote: Stupid question, but have you tried remaking the device node? Yup; no diff. -- Gary D. Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

not in bitmap

2000-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
Curiouser and curiouser. dmesg reports: sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 Any thoughts on this? like maybe the mouse and modem just maybe are switched? (XF86Setup fails 100% too.) gary -- Gary D. Kline [EMAIL

Re: not in bitmap

2000-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 01:25:57PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 19 August 2000 at 20:41:54 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Curiouser and curiouser. dmesg reports: sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 Any thoughts on this? like maybe the mouse and modem

Re: /stand/sysinstall cannot find any disks ?

2000-08-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 02:35:30PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Exactly! So since the automated build|install procedures do not target a new /stand/sysinstall, it should be part of whatever cheat-sheet of instructions you write down and type out to follow during

Re: /stand/sysinstall cannot find any disks ?

2000-08-14 Thread Gary Kline
According to Antonio Bemfica: Hello I'm trying to add a new disk to my system via /stand/sysinstall, but as soon as I get started the following message pops us" "No disks found! ..." I have only SCSI disks in this server and am running 4.1-stable. Below are the applicable

fack and /etc/fstab

2000-08-14 Thread Gary Kline
Hi Folks, Over the weekend I discovered that my new 4.0 platform consistantly fails to clean my SCSI drive #2 upon an improper shudown or even by typing # fsck upon logging in as root and by-hand checking of the filesystems. I used /stand/sysinstall twice to be sure

Re: fack and /etc/fstab

2000-08-14 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:02:55AM -0700, Tom wrote: On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Gary Kline wrote: Hi Folks, Over the weekend I discovered that my new 4.0 platform consistantly fails to clean my SCSI drive #2 upon an improper shudown or even by typing # fsck

Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs

2000-04-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 05:09:01PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: That would not be a simple solution. There are more packaging problems with this than you've probably ever dealt with since we deal with CD sets in terms of tens-of-thousands