X11, KDE, WM, Gnome and current

2002-11-30 Thread Cliff Sarginson
! Value. Plus Logitech Cordless USB Optical Mouse. Am I being premature, there does not seem to be a KDE Package for 5.0. When I tried to fetch it all I got was one file, that new groovy theme that KDE comes with. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as

fdisk "conflict" between 4.7-stable and 5.0-DP2

2002-12-01 Thread Cliff Sarginson
is slice 4 (which does not exist). All systems work fine using grub. Any explanation for this anomaly ? Thanks. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current&qu

Re: Any ideas at all about network problem?

2002-12-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ome of the computers stop, but I don't think a slightly overloaded electrical system can be solved in software... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curr

Re: Any ideas at all about network problem?

2002-12-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:15:22AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:27:34AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > [ ... bad throughput on bad NICs ... ] > > > > Mmmm. I use these RTL cheapo nics. I accept the fact

Re: I'm impressed, but ...

2002-12-07 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ften, but I'd prefer to > store my mail here and have the mailserver write over NFS. (Mainly for speed > reasons). > I suspect file locks across NFS as a possible source of this kind of problem. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus

Current and Stable and Disk Slice problems

2002-12-07 Thread Cliff Sarginson
helps. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Current and Stable and Disk Slice problems ..corrected

2002-12-07 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:43:54PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Hello, > I know there has been some exchanges over these problems, but I am not > sure I yet understand if a problem remains (I am obviously writing > because one seems to :) > > I have on one of the systems h

Re: 5.0-RC1: X server crash

2002-12-16 Thread Cliff Sarginson
"hardware" problem. It is. Memtest will not tell you squat about this (unless you have real memory faults .. ). -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Sysinstall [ was Re: 5.0-RC1 install: disklabel editor ]

2002-12-16 Thread Cliff Sarginson
-longer puts ticks in the boxes, if you tick each seperately it asks you every time if you want to install the ports, after every tick, and once again at the end. When I tried to configure an X-Server, it took me to the X-Client menu...sysinstall if that is posible has become more than a PITA than it

SCSI Bios complaints and Disk Slices

2002-12-16 Thread Cliff Sarginson
other complaints about the 1st SCSI disk. Diagnostics show no problems. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: 5.0 performance (was: 80386 out of GENERIC)

2002-12-16 Thread Cliff Sarginson
derstandable at this point in 5.0's evolution. It certainly takes a *lot* longer than 4.7 (test machine 1GHZ Pentium III, 512MB memory, SCSI disk). Also didn't someone mention that GCC has got slower anyway ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: SCSI Bios complaints and Disk Slices

2002-12-19 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:59:37AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Windows .. fine, I installed Linux .. fine. Then I installed > > FreeBSD...fine *but* the SCSI BIOS on bootup complains that the disk > > geometry is all cockeyed,

Re: SCSI Bios complaints and Disk Slices

2002-12-19 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:56:02PM +0600, Maxim M. Kazachek wrote: > Tekram DC 390 works under sym(4)... Except 390T which is powered by AMD... > > Cliff Sarginson: > Perhaps you need try to play with disk geometry in fdisk... Try to see > what geometry is 1st disk and try set so

Re: more -current testers

2002-02-19 Thread Cliff Sarginson
nough resources to run a STABLE system for my day-to-day use and also have a -CURRENT system I am more than willing to spend some time on. I think some good pointers on what is required to provide useful feedback (as opposed to bug reports that are not adequately filled in) and some practical tips wou

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
subscribed. If there is still interest in discussion > about what the project should look like, I think I'm ready to go on that > if people still think my experience with the existing rc system is worth > including. > I am interested. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: more -current testers

2002-03-01 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ree > > articles, running about a month and a half. > > > > The last time I checked, I get 12-15 thousand readers for each > > article. One half of one percent uptake would (hopefully) be quite a > > few bug reports. > Has some kind of conclusion been arrived at

Re: fxp driver not reset after Windows reboot?

2000-12-10 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello I have the self same problem with my nics' Realtek 8139's. But on my '98 machine it is dual bootable with Linux. If I don't power cycle the PC between using windows and Linux my nic's are unusable, gaining a MAC address of as I see yours does. I have found no solution for it (

rarraa AAmerica

2003-03-19 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Lets all be thankful as hell Because the statuue of the Liberty has began to smell. -- Regards Cliff [ Thi mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message