Re: LTmodem port
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:27:13PM -0700, anonymous wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 and I have a Lucent WinModem. Are there any detailed instructions on installing the LTModem port for FreeBSD? They aren't needed; it should just work. hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics/\ ASCII ribbon campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of Xand postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vmware networking with vmware3 and Freebsd 5
Vmware 3 installed quite easily, and it was easy to install the guest operating systems. I can't get the networking going, however. What are the correct answers to the netgraph bridging questions? I assume it is yes to use it, but what about the device? vmnet? vmnet0? /dev/vmnet0? /dev/xl0 (my actual device?) And what kernel options, if any, do I now need? I've been trying to work with syctln net.link.ether.bridge and its _cfg, but nothing I've tried has worked. I do have a separate ip that the guest can use. hawk, baffled -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics/\ ASCII ribbon campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of Xand postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
making avatars from digital camera images? (scripting shrinking)
I need to use a digital camera to take pictures of 65 students to turn in to avatars for discussion boards. They need to be limited to 80x80, and 6144 bytes. I'm sure *something* in the graphics ports must be scriptable to do this, but I'm not finding it. Could someone spot me a hint? thanks hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics/\ ASCII ribbon campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of Xand postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: load over 14 from make -j4
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:33:02PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-01-11T19:28:57Z, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ...a portupgrade -arF was running... ...is probably your answer. I've never seen that go above two on it's own; I don't un it with -j as two many ports (typically those relieng on gmake) faile to build. hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics/\ ASCII ribbon campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of Xand postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
load over 14 from make -j4
Hmm, this is odd. I noticed the load go through the roof on the laptop sitting next to me; not surprising during buildworld. But then I looked closer, starred, and called up top. The load was reported at 14.97. X is running, a portupgrade -arF was running, and there's an idle lyx. How in the rold did that many processes get launched from -j4? It's still there, above 12 or so for the right-hand 40% or so of my xload window. hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics/\ ASCII ribbon campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of Xand postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
tweaking the wheel on a cordless logitech mouse
We finally have the silly mouse talking to freebsd. After a lot of searching, one of our techs found that there's a button under the mouse that must be pushed simultaneously with the button on the receive. *sigh* Anyway, following through the handbook and a couple of messages here, I'm trying to get the wheel working. So far, once I roll down, future rolling up scrolls down in some programs (but it did that to start with!). I have two buttons, a wheeel, and the wheel button. I've added moused_flags=-z 5 to /etc/rc.conf (for just wheel it said 4) And edited the mouse section of /etc/X11/XF86Config to Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option Buttons 6 #Option Emulate3Buttons #Option Emulate3Timeout 50 Option ZAxisMapping5 6 EndSection I've also installed imwheel, which is running. But still no wheel. Whatever I'm missing has to be simple. ANy hints? thanks hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics/\ ASCII ribbon campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of Xand postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: tweaking the wheel on a cordless logitech mouse
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:52:42PM -0500, John Bleichert wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: For what it's worth, I was never able to get my wheel working with /dev/sysmouse. I use: /dev/ums0 (USB mouse), or /dev/psm0 (PS/2 mouse) and it works fine with protocoal 'auto'. Note that I don't use moused or imwheel at all. Hmm, that did it. I'll keep it; thanks. Oh, and it's only 5 buttons, on 45, for X in XF86Config. That might account for some of the other weirdness I suffered. thanks hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics/\ ASCII ribbon campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of Xand postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
tuning fvwm2rc (alt-tab and title-buttons)
I'm finally getting annoyed enough to try to mess with fvwm2rc. I had it working just the way I wanted, and then during a time I was forced over to debian the package maintainer caused the config files to be replaced wihtout asking. And bit by bit, other things have stopped working. By poking and reding the partial documentation, I've gotten almost all of it working. What I *can't* get working is the alt-tab to rotatate between windows. As I'm reading the file, these lines (which have been around forever) *should* be doing that: # tough to live wihtout alt-tab and friends Key Tab A M Next [CurrentPage !iconic] focus-and-raise Key Tab A MS Prev [CurrentPage !iconic] focus-and-raise Key F5 A M CirculateUp Key F6 A M CirculateDown but they don't. Also, I was able to add the right-hand button for close by chaning to: # for the title bar buttons: Mouse 0 1 A Menu Window-Ops2 Close Mouse 0 2 A Close Mouse 0 4 A Maximize-Func Mouse 0 6 A Iconify But that doesn't give it a destroy Icon. I tried using the old debian lines DestroyDecor default-decor AddToDecor default-decor + HilightColor white steelblue + WindowFont -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-* + ButtonStyle Reset + ButtonStyle 2 Vector 16 20x20@1 30x20@1 50x40@1 70x20@1 80x20@1 80x30@0 60x50@0 80x80@0 70x80@0 50x60@0 30x80@0 20x80@0 20x70@0 40x50@1 20x30@0 20x20@1 + ButtonStyle 4 Vector 5 25x25@1 25x75@1 75x75@0 75x25@0 25x25@1 + ButtonStyle 6 Vector 2 80x76@0 20x76@1 But it chokes on the HilightColor line, and if I comment it out, I still don't get the button labels. I'm perfectly happy keeping th defaults, but right now the maximize button destroys . . . Finally, left and right buttons with alt aren't raising/lowering the windows. Shouldn't this section (part of system.fvwmrc) do that? # for other parts of the window/borders/icons: Mouse 1 F A Resize-or-Raise Mouse 1 TS A Move-or-Raise Mouse 1 I A Move-or-Iconify Mouse 2 I A Iconify Mouse 2 FST A Menu Window-Ops2 Nop Mouse 3 TSIFA RaiseLower thanks hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics/\ ASCII ribbon campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of Xand postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter.
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 01:58:59PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: Brett Glass wrote: GCC is a great gift to the world, and has made a huge difference to the development of open-source software. It can't be all that mediocre if it has destroyed the market for higher-quality compilers! Windows is of great benefit to the world. It can't be all that mediocere if it has destroyed the market for higher-quality operating systems! :) That said, this is an arguement that regualrly appears in this list, has been beaten to death, and, most importantly, doesn't belong here. Take it to email or a talk, advocacy, or discussion list. (and please take the trolls who have latched on with you!). -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics/\ ASCII ribbon campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of Xand postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Simple bulletin board software for class use?
After using the custom software provided here at Penn State, and, uhm, finding it lacking (Please restore from backup. You'll have to tell us when it failed ?!?!?!), I need to find some simple, presumably apache-based, web software to run on my workstation. There will not be more than 70 students per class; I will have well under 200 users. I need to be able to feed it a list of names and ID's to set it up--they all already have psu id's, and one more thing to remember is annoying. I'd like to be able to script this so that I can email them their initial password, but that's just frosting. I do want a login required for access, and I want it to thread the messages in each section (slashdots nested view is what I'm after). I'd also like to be able to flag/moderate messages, with the flagging turning into class points when I do it. Possibly students could have a limited number of points to moderate one another as well. Of course, there's always the slashdot code itself, but that seems a bit extreme for my modest needs. Oh, and it should be trivial for me to automate backups! Students get *very* unhappy when their work disappears . . . Does anyone have any experience with such a thing? I'm sure that there are a few things in ports that would do it, but having just been bitten, experience of others weighs more heavily at the moment . . . hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics/\ ASCII ribbon campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of Xand postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
