Mouse pointer invisible in Gnome2

2004-09-04 Thread Paul Smith
I installed 4.10 with XF86 4.3 and Gnome2 on my IBM Thinkpad 600X laptop,
which has a Neomagic video card.  I used ncurses to configure
/etc/X11/XF86Config.  Everything went fine except when I brought up Gnome
the mouse pointer was nowhere to be seen.  The mouse was working because
when I moved it icons it evidently passed across would light up.  The mouse
pointer was invisible.

On the same machine 5.2.1 freezes up when I xinit.  Control-Alt-Backspace,
Alt-F2 and all other commands known to me do nothing.  To close it I had to
unplug the power cable and remove the battery, not a preferred method to
shut down.

Red Hat 9 installs and runs perfectly (apart from the Lucent modem), and
Gnome has a mouse pointer!  An OS from Redmond which will remain Gnomeless
installs and runs perfectly. 

I really like 4.10.  How can I make the mouse pointer visible like in Red
Hat?

Paul Smith
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Packages in a 'build server' environment

2003-08-26 Thread Paul Smith
I'm successfully using a dedicated build server for centralized 'make world'
and building packages from Ports for a number of production FreeBSD servers.

The question I'm running into now is, how do I build different configurations
of packages of the same port for different machines or purposes? For example,
I have a main web server where I need a highly customized configuration of
the Apache port, but I only need a vanilla install of Apache for a mail
server. I maintain my packages with portupgrade, by the way, and I imagine
the 'way out' is through this utility, but I can't seem to nail down a
specific example or instruction set.

Cheers,
Paul

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Webmaster/Systems Administrator
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Chicago, Illinois USA
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Installation Problem.

2003-03-28 Thread Paul Smith.
My computer freezes when booting from the install CD at, 
acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5% 

My computers harddrive light lights up and stop on then it says, 

ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting 
ata0: resetting devices .. 

then freezes, any ideas on how to install FreeBSD 5.0 (standard install) i386. 

thanks.

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