Re: 9.1-RELEASE slow boot

On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 19:38:34 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Since I updated to 9.1-RELEASE my boot process seems to stall for a while. Booting in verbose mode shows messages like these ones: Opening device da0 -> 6 (repeated like 30 times or so) Opening device da1 -> 6 (repeated like 30 time

Re: Linksys WPC54g NDIS compiles but doesn't work?

On 02/05/2013 16:02, Steven wrote: Hello, I posted this once already, but I wasn't subscribed at the time and I don't think it got posted to the list. Hopefully this isn't a dupe. I've installed FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE on a family member's laptop, a Toshiba Satellite 5100. Said member was using a L

Re: kernel config file

On 21/03/2013 19:54, Fbsd8 wrote: Back around 4.x there was a File that had all the available kernel compile options with their meanings as comments. On 9.1 I don't see that file any more. Where can I find that file that lists all the kernel compile options? The 9.1 NOTES file is not that file.

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

On 12/02/2013 21:38, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In general, I don't upgrade my ports very often, so up until recently I was running a fairly old version of firefox (firefox-15.0.1,1). But over the weekend, I moved everything over to a new drive containing the latest 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD, and wit

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

On 22/01/2013 05:32, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:31:11 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:18 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: I guess it would be possible to change the id for the existing FreeBSD user and then to chown /home/user_name to fit to 1000? Of course, thi

Re: Stickers

On 10/12/2012 00:17, Julian H. Stacey wrote: "CONNOR KELLY (RIT Student)" wrote: I am a student at Rochester Institute of Technology. I was wondering if you could send any stickers or swag with the freebsd logo or something similar to me. I would probably keep some for myself and pass the rest

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

In message, In general, you create a "partition scheme" first. This can be MBR, GPT, or others. (But use GPT.) Unless you want to dual boot with WinXP in which case use MBR still? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: asking for help about "acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C) "

On 04/09/2012 08:58, chiehhan wrote: To whom may concern, I am a greenhorn in the field of freebsd.And when I install Freebsd9.0 on my laptop HP NX6330,a control spam "acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C)"occurs. I created a custom ASL as a workaround. http://lists.freebsd.org/pip

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

On 24/07/2012 14:36, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 07:13:00PM +0800, lei yang wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:29:38 +0800, lei yang wrote: Yes, the second version I post is using the source from you supplied, then I compiled

Re: note

On 12/06/2012 04:53, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:36:00 -0600, Arlen McIntyre wrote: How can I get FreeBSD on my other partition and have a dual OS system without the boot installation? Qustion part one: Prepare a USB stick with the FreeBSD "memstick edition". You'll find instruct

Re: freebsd-update no mirrors?

On 03/06/2012 13:00, RW wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:47:47 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: c400# uname -a FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Following the handbook: c400# freebsd-update

freebsd-update no mirrors?

c400# uname -a FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Following the handbook: c400# freebsd-update -r 9-STABLE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching m

Re: ACPI temprature settings [WAS: Re: laptop very hot and noisy]

On 08/05/2012 15:06, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Anyway, this was easier than I expected. I removed a lot of dust from the fan and the heat sink gills. I also replaced the "thermal material". I prop my mine up off the desk to get better airflow to the fan intake which is on the underside. The f

Re: Video not view-able

On 08/05/2012 20:09, Carmel wrote: I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content was not view-able. Example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false There is a video there that displ

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote: Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network profiles for such as wireless vs wired, home and work etc, but look around. I recall one called just 'profile' from years ago, and more recently talk of 'failover' setups for wired/wireles

Re: domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp

On 20/04/2012 20:56, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of installing FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a domain name. Also setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is d

domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp

hi, I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of installing FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a domain name. Also setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is domain name. What do you do if you don't have your own domain? I've never supplied a domain na

Re: pcmcia wifi adapter that can be purchased?

On 10/04/2012 23:47, Kendall Shaw wrote: Chris Whitehouse writes: On 10/04/2012 18:37, Kendall Shaw wrote: Do you happen to know of a PCMCIA Type II wireless adapter that is currently being sold online that supports WPA under freebsd 9.0? Alternately, a USB 1.0 adapter? I would rather keep

Re: pcmcia wifi adapter that can be purchased?

On 10/04/2012 18:37, Kendall Shaw wrote: Do you happen to know of a PCMCIA Type II wireless adapter that is currently being sold online that supports WPA under freebsd 9.0? Alternately, a USB 1.0 adapter? I would rather keep the USB ports free for other uses. Linksys WPC54G works with malo dri

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

On 20/03/2012 04:58, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 March 2012 04:17, Sabine Baer wrote: Sorry if I'm totally wrong here but I don't know where to ask. I'm using WindowMaker as my window manager for some years. I do not remember why, but some days ago, I deinstalled ist. Now, I can't install it

Re: port to package amd64 to i386

On 05/03/2012 16:53, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/03/2012 16:42, Bernt Hansson wrote: Thank you for the pointer. I do find it a bit overkill to setup jails and such, just to build a few ports. I was thinking more along the line of; cd /usr/ports/"random port" make "it for i386 even if we are b

Re: where is plig.net

On 06/02/2012 22:33, Mark Blackman wrote: On 6 Feb 2012, at 21:51, Chris Whitehouse wrote: About the first thing I ever learned about FreeBSD was the uk mirror ftp.plig.net and cvsup.plig.net which I think used to be ftp2.uk.freebsd.org. Since then I have always used them as a file source for

where is plig.net

About the first thing I ever learned about FreeBSD was the uk mirror ftp.plig.net and cvsup.plig.net which I think used to be ftp2.uk.freebsd.org. Since then I have always used them as a file source for broadband speed tests. They seem to have disappeared very recently. Does anyone know what ha

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

On 04/02/2012 16:49, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is

ath and how to control wireless light

Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless on. I found some sysctls that control it: d

Re: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config

On 30/01/2012 17:41, Mike. wrote: I installed 9.0 on my test ThinkPad. During the boot-up process, I see the following message after a pause in the boot-up process: run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config A quick spin through google showed the message occurre

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

On 04/01/2012 16:21, Chad Perrin wrote: As someone who has actually done laptop technician work, professionally, You don't by any chance know where there is a service manual for OP's laptop in pdf format (or html)? I did a bit of googling but didn't find it. It's a Toshiba U505-S2950. Or mayb

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

On 04/01/2012 00:57, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: um, well, yeah, but it's a laptop. :/ And I bought it before FreeBSD ever crossed my mind. Replacing the Realtek with a supported wireless card may be as easy as undoing a plate on the bottom of the machine, unclipping the old one and clipping i

Re: I am FreeBSD user.

On 05/12/2011 13:35, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/12/2011 12:39, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I thought the odd bit was ssuuddoo --VV | --hh | --ll | --LL | --vv | --kk | --KK | --ss | [ --HH ] [--PP ] [--SS ] [ --bb ] | [ --pp prompt ] [ --cc class|- ] [ --aa auth_type ] [ --uu username

Re: I am FreeBSD user.

On 05/12/2011 01:42, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, masayoshi wrote: When I was looking for sudo, I noticed a weired thing. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sudo&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Red+Hat+Linux%2Fi386+9&arch=default&format=html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?qu

Re: Still stalls on xpt_config

DEFEND PRIVACY Glad to hear it. I hope you won't mind that I've cc'd the list. cheers Chris On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Chris Whitehouse wrote: On 11/11/2011 00:21, Chuck Bacon wrote: Every 9.0 version I've tried has failed to boot, ending up with: Still waiting after {60,..,300

Re: Still stalls on xpt_config

On 11/11/2011 00:21, Chuck Bacon wrote: Every 9.0 version I've tried has failed to boot, ending up with: Still waiting after {60,..,300} seconds for xpt_config. What's a body to do? I've tried disabling ACPI, going single, safe mode. All on my ASUS M4A785TD-EVO mobo with some amd64 x4. Any additi

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

On 05/11/2011 19:47, Chris wrote: I'm having difficulty copying a directory tree from my FreeBSD server to USB storage. The problem is that the tree contains file and folder names which have spaces, similar to the following: ./foo bar/some name.tar.gz ./foo bar/child dir/some other name.tar.gz

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab

On 30/10/2011 10:01, Peter wrote: Hi, I am about to setup a small PC lab for teaching operating systems. Since computers will need to be used for teaching Windows/Unix(FreeBsd)/Linux(Novell) I need to find a way: 1. Systems to coexists on the same hardware 2. Easily restore system images to the

Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute

On 20/09/2011 15:04, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:44:31PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:40:42PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:26:29PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:40:56PM +0100, Anton Sht

editors/zim

Hi, I have a problem with Zim which I wrote to the author about he replied and said; "I'm afraid version 0.29 is no longer supported. This was the last version in the Perl branch, since we moved to Python there have been already 10 more releases. So please try the latest version (0.52)." Ar

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

On 05/08/2011 01:58, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Roland Smith wrote: There are several possible drivers you could use; pcl3 pxlmono pxlcolor. The gutenprint (a.k.a. gimp-print) driver also supports your printer directly. ljet4 is the PCL5 driver, and anything with PCL6 is supposed

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

On 03/08/2011 19:18, Matthias Apitz wrote: # cat |lpr -Plp To the OP: You won the todays "Useless Use of Cat Award" :-) The same would do: lpr -Plp< ps-file or lpr -Plp ps-file :-) matthias Well I'm not a guru so perhaps I can be excused :-) Still thanks

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

On 03/08/2011 18:59, Robert Bonomi wrote: So either what should I set Device to, or how do I get ghostscript to know about this printer? I don't think there is a 'generic' "PCL" driver, but one of the 'HP laserjet' drivers _should_ do the job. Pick one thqt corresponds to a 'more-o

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

On 03/08/2011 18:58, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:41:44 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried to get anything

printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD. I'm following the handbook. I think the basic setup is ok, I can get text printed using

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

On 10/07/2011 14:02, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:35:28 -0400 b. f. articulated: This is the tag that you would use on src collections to update your base system sources (usually in /usr/src) to 8-STABLE. You would use RELENG_8_2 for the 8.2-STABLE security branch, RELENG_8_2_RELEASE fo

Re: What is xz ?

On 02/07/2011 07:38, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:53:17 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Hi all, I just downloaded FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz and the md5 checksum is correct. Can someone please tell me what does that xz at the end stand for ? It looks like it stan

Re: Build failure /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3 on amd64

Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day; It appears that I cannot build openoffice.org-3 from ports due to an error similar to this; http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/OpenOffice-3-2-fails-to-build-on-FreeBSD-8-0-STABLE-amd64-td3873768.html 1 module(s): nss need(s) *to* be rebuilt

Re: CRUX and FREE BSD

On 25/05/2011 18:45, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi Ramu cc questions@ I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can i do that?? I have CRUX installed before. I wrote some notes here: http://berklix.com/~jhs/txt/install_bsd.html Hope it may help you& or similar en

GL811e usb chipset

Hi, does anyone know if the GL811e chipset is supported in 8.2R? It's supposed to be common in external usb hard disk and optical disk drives. It's not mentioned in the hardware notes and google didn't turn up much. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

On 04/05/2011 20:53, Chris Brennan wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Jerry wrote: Chris, when I have had to do major rebuilds, I have found "portmanager" to be the best tool. It just seems to work. In any case, if it were me, I would clean out the /usr/ports/distfiles directory, update yo

Re: Hardware suggestions

On 26/04/2011 18:45, Jaime Kikpole wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: Just out of curiosity, why not rack-mounted boxed? Space issues. They'll have to either fit on a shelf in one of two rooms, depending on the outcome of some other things. Any thoughts on brand o

Re: how to protect my system from third party apps crashes

Sorry sent to OP only... On 21/04/2011 11:21, Michael wrote: Hello. I'm having stability issues on my desktop system running FreeBSD 8.2-R on amd64. It happens quite often that some application (say web browser) goes nuts and totally locks-up my system. When it happens it looks like the applic

Re: AMD Athlon64 Mainboard - NOT SPAM: please check it out :)

On 12/23/10 13:57, Da Rock wrote: I've got wholesale contacts, but I was hoping to make use of this spare chip and RAM floating about. Diff would be around $100, so only kinda worth it. It might be worth looking at Intel Atom processor boards or similar, there are plenty of very low power boar

Re: Thinkpad R51 + xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_3 = lockup

On 11/06/10 23:12, Chris Brennan wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hello I aquired an R51 model 2887 recently. It has the latest BIOS and the video chipset is 855GM. I am getting the same problem as mentioned here < http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fe

Thinkpad R51 + xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_3 = lockup

Hello I aquired an R51 model 2887 recently. It has the latest BIOS and the video chipset is 855GM. I am getting the same problem as mentioned here and here

Re: Which OS for notebook

On 10/04/10 17:55, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Monday 04 October 2010 12:11:30 Leandro F Silva wrote: Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. there is no general answer. You must select an individual model first

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

On 10/03/10 12:09, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 09:59:19 + Thomas Mueller articulated: > From "Elias Chrysocheris": If you are sure that the default configuration settings are OK for you, then one way is to perform a portupgrade with the switches --batch --yes, like portupgrade --bat

Re: Location of sensors

David Demelier wrote: Hello, I just wonder how to know the location of the sensors, I got a lot of them on my HP Probook laptop : I looked at something related to this last year. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2009-March/00.html has a set of sysctl commands to track t

Re: Free BSD 8.1

per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I'm advocating starting from a stable and self-consistent baseline, consisting of a release _and_ its corresponding port/package collection, and then considering whether any updates are needed. You might be interested to follow Manolis' custom DVD which is based on

Re: which perl?

Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, Todays ports tree has lang/perl5.10 and lang/perl5.12. A new 8.1-RELEASE jail in tinderbox using this ports tree is using perl5.10 by default. Should I leave this as is or should I be using 5.12? IMHO 5.10

which perl?

Hi, Todays ports tree has lang/perl5.10 and lang/perl5.12. A new 8.1-RELEASE jail in tinderbox using this ports tree is using perl5.10 by default. Should I leave this as is or should I be using 5.12? This is for a home desktop. eco# uname -a FreeBSD eco.config 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE

Re: Page fault in kernel when using CD, BSD 7.2

Mark Terribile wrote: AMI BIOS. The NB heatsink is barely warm (fan cooled), the not necessarily a good sign, you would get this if the heat from the cpu is not getting transferred to the heatsink. Remove, clean, apply new heat transfer compound, make sure the heatsink is actually seating pro

Re: looking for a buildable version of OpenOffice.org

Scott Bennett wrote: On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:27:49 -0400 Michael Powell wrote: Scott Bennett wrote: I have tried all of the versions of OpenOffice.org that are currently in the ports tree on a 7.3-STABLE system, and all of them fail to build to completion. Is there somewhere that I

Re: 8.1 is available

ch for the announcement :p). Chris On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Chris Whitehouse <mailto:cwhi...@onetel.com>> wrote: Aiza wrote: Since the release team never makes a announcement on this list when a new RELEASE is published. I will let you all know that

Re: 8.1 is available

Aiza wrote: Since the release team never makes a announcement on this list when a new RELEASE is published. I will let you all know that RELEASE 8.1 has been published and is available for download. Has it been announced anywhere? Downloads have been available for some days. Generally advice

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, paul wrote: Is it possible to watch youtube on a FreeBSD system ? And if it is, someone would be so kind to guide me to a FAQ / Article / wiki / or tell me how to do it ? Yes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers

Re: bsdstats problem?

yep working now thanks Chris Marc G. Fournier wrote: Please try now, tested from here and works fine: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bsdstats.sh start Starting bsdstats. Posting monthly OS statistics to rpt.bsdstats.org # On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Fbsd8 wrote: Anh Ky Huynh

Re: bsdstats problem?

Fbsd8 wrote: Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:28:52 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: Anyone else having problems with bsdstats? I have the same problems here. muji2# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bsdstats.sh start Starting bsdstats. fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/enable_token.php

bsdstats problem?

Anyone else having problems with bsdstats? muji2# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bsdstats.sh start Starting bsdstats. fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/enable_token.php?key=... No address record fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/report_system.php?token... No address record Posting monthly OS stati

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

Programmer in Training wrote: Quoting Polytropon : On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training wrote: Almost all Internet video has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons on sermons.net which my church uses). That's all within transition. Currently, big video portal

Re: What's the difference between portupgrade and portmaster ?

Jerry wrote: On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:26:18 +0300 Eitan Adler articulated: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:37 AM, zaxis wrote: Why do we need two tools ? Its three. Add portmanager. The answer is personal choice and we number of bikesheds. Also portmaster used to not be able to work with packages

Re: Sound mixer

Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, the same volume for all values. Second, is it possible to mute the sound with the mixer command and later unmute it restoring the values I had before muting? I'm embarrassed to admit I'm on a Windows machine so can't check but I think the second is something like m

Re: USB1.1 WIFI adapted recommendation

mikel king wrote: I am refurbishing a laptop that only has USB1.1 and now built-in WIFI. Anyone with experience in these devices able to make a recommendation for a reliable device? I have an old Belkin F5D7050 USB wifi adapter - you can still buy them. May 14 20:45:17 muji2 kernel: ugen4.4:

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

Sean Cavanaugh wrote: . Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 16:07:26 +0100 From: cwhi...@onetel.com To: millenia2...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Nice but doesn't have a VGA port (but does have HDMI) http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2-speci

Re: [#24488139] Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

body: Sean Cavanaugh wrote: ------ From: "Chris Whitehouse" Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 8:03 AM To: "Andrew Gould" Cc: Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Andrew Gould wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Liontaur wro

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

Sean Cavanaugh wrote: -- From: "Chris Whitehouse" Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 8:03 AM To: "Andrew Gould" Cc: Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Andrew Gould wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Liontaur wrote:

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

Liontaur wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for a small (and relatively inexpensive) computer to run a GUI, I don't much care if it's KDE or Gnome or one of the others. Just so that I can browse the Internet using Firefox (unfortunately I may need to look at some flash). So they need to be able to run

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

Andrew Gould wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Liontaur wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: Sounds like you want a netbook. -- Adam Vande More I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I want to put it in a cupboard and not worry

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows-CORRECTION

Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I'd be curious to know if it is still the case that ntfs writes are not reliable in that situation. There are times when doing this can be handy on a dual-boot laptop, for example. 'Anyone out there care to comment on the state of ntfs rw access? Sorry I was reading so

Re: Addition to BSDstats

Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Randi Harper wrote: I wouldn't want to add an option to sysinstall for this unless bsdstats was part of base. nobody would appreciate (and outcry would be heavy) if someone were to add an 'opt-out phone home script' that they didn't consciously en

Re: 2 qstns re pc-bsd...

Gary Kline wrote: i ask here? [i'm trying to add my beloved zsh [[heart-throbs]], and ff3, and others. i thought i had installed the ports stuff. nope. When I looked at PCBSD some while ago it had 3 ways of doing ports. #1 is standard (make install) FreeBSD ports, #2 is also standard FreeBSD

Re: Addition to BSDstats

Marc G. Fournier wrote: can you tell me two things: nslookup rpt.bsdstats.org and the contents of /var/db/bsdstats I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression that bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?) so for a very long time I haven't installed it. Obv

Re: anybody know if there is a 32-bit distro of pcbsd?

Gary Kline wrote: last night i started an upgrade on my ubuntu linux via the net. finished this morning, and after thoroughly checking stuff, i can't reboot. (i have multiple copies of stuff everywhere so did not lose much if anything.) this may be the time to give pc-bsd a try. before i surf

Re: ziz a dumb question?

Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? Well... erm... in fact... I didn't measure anything, I just utilized the numbers. :-) Modern PCs come with a 700 W power supply (and more), and the specs for my AS

Re: ziz a dumb question?

Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would b

setting ccache path

Hi I have just installed devel/ccache. I set up /etc/make.conf , /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/profile according to /usr/local/share/doc/ccache/ccache-howto-freebsd.txt to include /usr/local/libexec/ccache in roots path but ccache doesn't get used. I think it is because roots path is set absolutely

Re: "acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd" Message

B J wrote: One thing I did notice, however, is when I compiled that file and got two errors arising from: Store (Local0, Local0) where Local0 hadn't been defined in that part of the code. I have no idea how that came about, but it successfully compiled after I commented out that state

Re: "acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd" Message

B J wrote: I created an ASL file and located what appeared to be the code block where that value was set. I followed the statements and nothing appeared to be unusual. (Of course, I might have missed something because I don't have much experience with ACPI programming.) I was able to set t

Re: "acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd" Message

B J wrote: I have a Compaq Presario SR2180NX, which uses a P5LP-LE motherboard. When I bought the machine second hand three years ago, I originally installed and ran FreeBSD 5.5 without the error message. I recall that it began appearing after I installed and ran 6.3, though I don't think it

Re: Does small bsd cd exsit?

??? wrote: Hello, everyone, I want to try a bsd distribution. However, after downloading the PC-bsd (DVD, over 3GB) from the web through all night, my download tool gave me an error signal... Then I found it may too much big to some extent. Does a small one exsit, with a full GUI destop? I wa

Re: FreeBSD PXE installation howto

Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project for setting up a freebsd installation server with pxe. When I started I see the doc was a bit old-fashioned... so I started looking at some blogs... freebsd doc that could help me understanding the whole process and so on... finall

Re: [RESOLVED, for now] Re: USB Powered Speakers

Programmer In Training wrote: On 04/09/10 21:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Programmer In Training wrote: I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it ... If "speakers on USB 2.0 card, all else on 1.x built

Re: Online school for FreeBSD

Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:34:59PM -0800, jt wrote: I've been doing searches for online schools that teach FreeBSD. I've been trying to learn on an off for years but when it starts getting complicated, I get stuck. The handbook don't do allot of good. You can download the

Re: USB Powered Speakers

Programmer In Training wrote: On 04/09/10 18:31, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Unless you insist on an operating system solution what you are really after is a 5 volt supply. What about buying a mains USB charger of the right capacity, or if you are handy with bits of wire have a look I wouldn&#

Re: USB Powered Speakers

Programmer In Training wrote: I really don't know where to look for this. I've never even heard of USB powered speakers until I got these (no, I don't pay much attention to what's available unless I have a great need for it). I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand new

Re: gdm background picture missing

Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jian Jun Wang wrote: Any suggestion on stepsto solve the problem? Follow the steps in /usr/ports/UPDATING when you are updating ports. Another option would be to pkg_delete * and install everything again from ports. There are good ins

Re: skype webcam no device found

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview. But skype tells me 'no device found' for video. I've tried various combinations of with/without webcamd and pwcview running, also as root, _and_ res

Re: skype webcam no device found

Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, April 01, 2010 a las 06:42:20AM -0400, Alejandro Imass escribió: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview

skype webcam no device found

Hi, I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview. But skype tells me 'no device found' for video. I've tried various combinations of with/without webcamd and pwcview running, also as root, _and_ restarting webcamd each time, but no joy. Any suggestions very gratefully rec

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. Will I be able to use it in FreeBSD? Can I use Windows driver? Maybe you want to have a look at pwcbsd[1]. This is to use linux drivers on A more recent p

flash gotcha?

hi I am installing flash on a fairly fresh installation of 8.0 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar 24 GENERIC i386. linux_base-f10-10_2 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_5 muji2# nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugi

Re: OT: dead box

Frank Shute wrote: Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting the power on button had no effect as did using another known working outlet. I checked all the cables and they seem attached. I thought my power supply must have died so I go

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