Re: nVidia card manufacturer recommendations

2012-03-17 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:00:30 +, Arthur Chance wrote: >On 03/14/12 08:57, Arthur Chance wrote: >> Somewhere, possibly here, a while back I saw a remark that certain >> manufacturer's nVidia cards worked reliably with the nVidia supplied >> drivers and others usually have problems because they

Re: USB Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision

2012-03-01 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:26:07 +1000, Da Rock wrote: >On 03/02/12 06:25, sean wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I am unable to get the built in mic of a Logitech QuickCam Ultra >> Vision to capture sound. I have been testing it using Skype. >> >> -lsusb shows the logitech device. >> -Device "sound" a

Re: rox-fm

2011-05-05 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Thu, 05 May 2011 19:42:32 +, pwnedomina wrote: [cut] >> >i had a little problem, after i have rox-filer running im unable to see >output of root-tail texts in background, what can i do in order to fix this? It may be cause your run rox with -S [ --rox-session ] option and the pinboard is

Re: rox-fm

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Wed, 04 May 2011 23:33:18 +, pwnedomina wrote: >Em 04-05-2011 20:49, Daniel C. Dowse escreveu: >> On Wed, 04 May 2011 21:01:28 +, pwnedomina wrote: >>> after installation of rox-filler i noticed i cant select menu item from >>> fluxbox? is ther

Re: rox-fm

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Wed, 04 May 2011 21:01:28 +, pwnedomina wrote: >after installation of rox-filler i noticed i cant select menu item from >fluxbox? is there anyway to circumvent this? >___ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: gkrellm2 GnuTLS and OpenSSL, conky doesn't work :(

2011-03-21 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:45:40 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: [snip] >On the other hand with conky, I get error > >[olivares@grullahighschool ~]$ conky -C > ~/.conkyrc >[olivares@grullahighschool ~]$ conky >Conky: Xft not enabled at compile time >Conky: desktop window (143) is subwindow of root

Re: Openoffice

2010-12-27 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:57:59 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: >Hi, > >It has been a long time since I tried to install Openoffice from >packages, but I would prefer not to have to build it. > >I have been fishing around at all the old sites where I found >it some years ago and can't seem to find an

Re: how to find my memory size?

2010-08-06 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:37:03 +0800 at Jason wrote: >hi,all: > >which one is the memory size?And what's the meaning of these three variable? > >hw.physmem: 2138476544 >hw.usermem: 1886236672 >hw.realmem: 2147430400 > >___ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-31 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
Hello What ever you ppl, say does it really depend on some logo? I` am sick an tired of downld that kind of mails from this list. I mean there are more trouble in the world then discuss `bout some logo of and Underground OS. That`s my opinion so please don`t feed the troll thx Daniel --

Re: How to use an older version of gcc?

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:14:14 -0800 (PST) at gfot wrote: > >yes i know i can call it gcc34 but the real problem is that the toolchain has >some scripts to automate the building and it uses some paths to pick up the >appropriate tools and when i run the scripts gcc42 is used. I figure out >that th

Re: VirtualBox - does it work for FreeBSD?

2010-01-21 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:11:53 + at Glyn Millington wrote: > >Good Morning :-) > >A quick question for anyone running VirtualBox on a FreeBSD _host_ >machine, with Linux or Windows as a _guest_ OS. > > >Does it work? > > >That is, do the guest additions work fully for those guests, or are >

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:46:57 + Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? > Any advice? > I using a nvidia fx5500 with the latest driver 173.14.22 on i386 and it works perfect. And it was no pain to get 3d working for games. cheers Daniel -- < W

Re: need help with nvidia drivers

2009-11-04 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:15:46 -0800 (PST) Super Biscuit wrote: > Yes, I did. > I'm thinking that it may be the metamode option. > > --- On Thu, 11/5/09, Daniel C. Dowse wrote: > Hi, well i don`t know, i don`t have any modes specified in xorg.conf here is what my xorg.

Re: need help with nvidia drivers

2009-11-04 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:22:42 -0800 (PST) Super Biscuit wrote: > I downloaded and installed the driver from nvidia with better results. > Now, I have a problem of a broken screen and a workable area of 320x240. > I added the the Modes to the xorg.conf file with no change in results. > > Have you

Re: need help with nvidia drivers

2009-11-04 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
E FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: > Fri May  1 08:49:13 UTC 2009 > r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386 > > > --- On Wed, 11/4/09, Daniel C. Dowse wrote: > > From: Daniel C. Dowse > Subject: Re: need help with nvidia drivers > To: "Super

Re: need help with nvidia drivers

2009-11-04 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:55:34 -0800 (PST) Super Biscuit wrote: > I'm not able to use the glx settings on my computer. > RGB comes back as a double buffer error. > Hi, sorry but with that kind of questioning you won`t get any response, that includes your other posts as well. you should all ways

Re: [freebsd-questions] in subject line

2009-10-26 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:43:17 + Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Hi > > Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name in > square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for > setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into different > 'fold

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-25 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:33:16 +1100 Rob Hurle wrote: > Hi Manolis, > > Thanks very much for that very helpful reply: > > >>   Now to FreeBSD.  The newly formatted (as NTFS) disc appears as two > >> devices - /dev/cd0 (never seen this before) > > > > This is how a USB cdrom appears to FreeBSD -

Re: changing cron's From: address in emails

2009-10-24 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:08:21 -0600 Kelly Martin wrote: > Greetings, here's a simple question for the FreeBSD gurus out there. I > have several servers running cron scripts daily for me, and they all > send me e-mail with their output. Regardless of which server it is, > each of these e-mails have

Re: Anybody is using VirtualBox?

2009-10-24 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:23:10 -0700 Yuri wrote: > I am tryingto run Windows under FreeBSD. > > When I run: > cat /dev/ad1s1 | VBoxManage stdin OutPutFile.vdi 21474836480 > on 80-RC2 I get this output: > ERROR: failed to create the VirtualBox object! > ERROR: code NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004) - Ope

Re: geom_label usb cdrom

2009-05-23 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Fri, 22 May 2009 20:10:33 -0500 ajtiM wrote: > My system FreeBSD 7.2 > Problem with CDROM and usb card reader. It works but swithc from da4s1 to > da0s1. OK it is no so frustraiting because I mount "manualy" in console. The > bigger problem is cdrom which switch too but if I use KDE and K3b

Re: xorg error with xfce3 wm install

2009-05-06 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Sun, 03 May 2009 16:12:16 -1000 Al Plant wrote: [ snip ] > "xlib extension error" "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". [ snip ] Hi Al, i am running fluxbox 1.1.1, i receive the same error msgs with every X app i start, since i did some updating on the installed xorg port with

Re: filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-29 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:36:31 -0400 Chuck Robey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just put a OpenBSD partition on a EIDE disk I had laying around. I'd had > some > advice (apparently bad) that the OpenBSD UFS filesystem could provide a > filesystem that I could acce

Re: atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Alexander Popov wrote: > > Hi, Daniel, > > It must be periodic(8), but I have trouble identifying what exactly could be > the trigger. If I look at /etc/defaults/periodic.conf, it has > daily_clean_disks_enable="NO". > With respect to daily checks, I j

Re: Problems with Xorg after portupgrade

2009-04-29 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:38:10 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:24:05AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > > > Anton Shterenlikht writes: > > > > > > Section "DRI" > > > >Mode0666 > > > > EndSection > > > > > > what does this do? > > > > Sets

Re: atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:10:04 -0700 (PDT) Alexander Popov wrote: > > Hi, > > With FreeBSD 7.1 I've started using atacontrol spindown for my secondary > disks (i.e. disks that are accessed very infrequently). Everything seemed to > work nice until I noticed in my "daily security run output" lis