Re: Screen Shots

2003-03-06 Thread John Bleichert
mport' from the ImageMagick port: $ import -window root screenshot.jpg HTH - JB _______ John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Suggested Laptop system

2003-03-05 Thread John Bleichert
s winmodem support (if you need it, and it may work) and power management. The battery may not last as long as you think. A good place to see how well a particular model is supported is here: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ There are some similar sites for FBSD too. HTH - JB __

Re: need database suggestion for *.mdb files

2003-03-04 Thread John Bleichert
m in Access and exported the mdb files as flat comma-delimited text, then massaged them into appropriate SQL (for Postgres) with Perl. Of course, that was back when I had access to a Windows box on co-op :) Now I'd have to seek other means... Just a thought. JB # John Bleichert # http://

Re: scroll mouse

2003-02-26 Thread John Bleichert
Option "ZAxisMapping" "3 4" > > EndSection > > > > does this seem correct? > > Looks good. I can't verify the "ZAxisMapping" setting for your particular mouse, > but if it's wrong, you'll find that the wrong

Re: scroll mouse

2003-02-26 Thread John Bleichert
//www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1346948+1349825+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-questions/20030119.freebsd-questions (hopefully that link will work). I never solved it (could never figure out why moused was running) but I did come up with a workaround, as per that post. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: scroll mouse

2003-02-25 Thread John Bleichert
ot; protocol, that's always worked for me. I don't > spot any [obvious] problems... > > > > Joshua > > > > > > Need a new email address that people can remember > > Check out the new EudoraMail at > > http://www.eudoramail.com > > >

Re: tcsh redirect

2003-02-25 Thread John Bleichert
> > thanks, > > brian > >From "UNIX in a Nutshell, 3rd ed.": (command > file1) >& file2 sends standard output to file1 and standard error to file2. I don't think that's exactly what you were looking for, but hope it helps. Note that in bas

Re: kde3 install

2003-02-21 Thread John Bleichert
pkg`). > *** Error code 1 > Qt is the C++ toolkit (www.trolltech.com) which KDE and it's aps are written with. Threading support in the libraries is required to build KDE. I'm not sure why, but it is explicitly required by the source build instructions on kde.org HTH - JB

Re: lightweight wm

2003-02-21 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jud wrote: > Subject: Re: lightweight wm > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:38:28 -0500 (EST), John Bleichert > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> im on

Re: Logitech USB Keyboard

2003-02-21 Thread John Bleichert
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > Subject: Re: Logitech USB Keyboard > Quoting John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Can't speak to 5.0 (Ive only CVSup'd to it, never installed) but for 4.7 > > you'll probably need to build a boot f

re: lightweight wm

2003-02-20 Thread John Bleichert
- it's a great window manager. Controlled by a simple text file, multiple desktops, nice graphical styles, etc. mwm is nice too (very unix) but openmotif takes a long time to build. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Some question

2003-02-20 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Kostya Odnoralov wrote: > Subject: Some question > > Hi All! > > Please help me. > > 1) Advise to me good console-based mp3 player from ports collections. > Check out mpg123 (and cmp3 which is an ncurses front-end for mpg123, if you should need

Re: Logitech USB Keyboard

2003-02-20 Thread John Bleichert
th a custom kernel on it that includes support for USB kerboards and mice. There's a script in the handbook for building a custom boot floppy. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: ODBC on FreeBSD

2003-02-20 Thread John Bleichert
. I can build the Postgres libraries native on OSX, but for yucks I'm going to try out ODBC (I'll need to build the driver on OSX, that's next). Thanks for all the database help today! JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: PosgreSQL from ports

2003-02-20 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: > Subject: Re: PosgreSQL from ports > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > I'm trying to compile a very simple postgres app, from the samples, using > > this simple Makefile: > > > > ~~ > > CFLAGS=-Wall -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib > > >

Re: PosgreSQL from ports

2003-02-20 Thread John Bleichert
ldconfig. Do I need to do that here? Or am I missing something? Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

ODBC on FreeBSD

2003-02-19 Thread John Bleichert
rs on the clients. New to ODBC, figured FBSD is a good place to learn it. Any help or pointers appreciated. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1

2003-01-29 Thread John Bleichert
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Robin Damm wrote: > John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello All > > > > I've just installed a minimal 4.7 box with X, mwm and Mozilla 1.2.1 (which > > is just plain mozilla in the ports, cvsup'd tongight).

xfree86 error - 5.0 (fwd)

2003-01-29 Thread John Bleichert
n FYI. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 00:01:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xfree86 error - 5.0 Hello All Just upgraded to 5.0 and cvsup'

Re: odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1

2003-01-29 Thread John Bleichert
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Robin Damm wrote: > Subject: Re: odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1 > > John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello All > > > > I've just installed a minimal 4.7 box with X, mwm and Mozilla 1.2.1 (which > > is ju

odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1

2003-01-28 Thread John Bleichert
ed - never had this happen before - thanks! JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: bsd

2003-01-28 Thread John Bleichert
A lot of this work filters directly into the other BSDs. See the mission statements on each opsys' website and also the archives of this list for more info. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-q

Re: a question

2003-01-23 Thread John Bleichert
my nvidia video card. thanks peter > > Also, you can get 'official' FreeBSD drivers from www.nvidia.com, depending on the model/age of your nVidia card. They work quite well :) # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: sound on motherboard GA-7VR

2003-01-23 Thread John Bleichert
dvance > > The AC97 should be supported, however GENERIC does not contain support for sound. This page will help you (you'll need to roll your own kernel): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs

Re: newbie mail help

2003-01-22 Thread John Bleichert
d it by setting up postfix to do it for me (fix the return address). Then I found I could specify the headers in the pine configuration. Go to the setup section of pine (while it's running) and setup up headers as I did: customized-hdrs = Reply-To: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xf86config res too small on laptop

2003-01-22 Thread John Bleichert
know how to fix this? > > Thanks > > Adam > xf86config(1) is a text-based terminal app. *Which* configuration tool are you using? Or is this xf86config as seen through /stand/sysinstall? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Reboot...

2003-01-22 Thread John Bleichert
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Wuzhen Zhang wrote: > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:29:23 -0800 (PST) > From: Wuzhen Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Reboot... > > The screen freezes (Actually no screen, only the > prompt blinks

Re: Reboot...

2003-01-22 Thread John Bleichert
y install FreeBSD in the second > part of the Hard Disk, yet when I tried to install > win98, My computer did not allow me to reboot with > win98 startup disk? Can you help me out? > > Sincerely, > > Wuzhen Zhang > Exactly what error are you getting while trying to boot f

Re: Problem with FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE after installation

2003-01-21 Thread John Bleichert
re a graphical login option available for FreeBSD? Also, how can > I set up FreeBSD to load GNOME at start/login? > There are a number off apps to provide graphical login, notably xdm, gdm, kdm and wdm. See the basic xdm HOWTO in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/b

xfree86 error - 5.0

2003-01-20 Thread John Bleichert
Hello All Just upgraded to 5.0 and cvsup'd my ports. When I attempt to load X, I get this error (a lot of times) and X doesn't load: Symbol from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a is unresolved! I've tried to install all the parts of XFree86 individually (from the ports collecti

Re: CD-ROM installtion problems.

2003-01-20 Thread John Bleichert
sk was burned improperly, you'll see just 1 large file on the CD and not the correct file structure. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Need help with Sound Card

2003-01-20 Thread John Bleichert
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, aydun wrote: > Subject: Need help with Sound Card > > Hi, > > I've got a Rockwell WaveArtist card (RWA010, R6711-31) but I can't > configure FreeBSD 4.7 to see it correctly. Bios sees it ok at 0x220 & > it works under Windows (IRQ 5) > > It's supposed to be ISA PnP and So

Re: VHDL / Verilog

2003-01-20 Thread John Bleichert
(Icarus) and gEda. Not fully functional (lacked certain chip-sepcific parts) but maybe enough to work well by now. I'm not sure it's been a while. cad/geda cad/iverilog HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: compile errors

2003-01-20 Thread John Bleichert
b # USB Bus (required) > deviceugen# Generic > deviceuhid# "Human Interface Devices" > deviceukbd # Keyboard > deviceulpt# Printer > device

Re: Compilation Error for Nvidia Geforce4 Drivers

2003-01-20 Thread John Bleichert
probably be a while yet. For what it's worth the drivers work great in 4.7. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: 4.7 --> 5.0 via CVSup (never mind)

2003-01-19 Thread John Bleichert
/me read /usr/src/UPDATING. Sorry to clutter your INBOXes. On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, John Bleichert wrote: > Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:45:28 -0500 (EST) > From: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 4.7 --> 5.0 via CVSup > > Hello All >

4.7 --> 5.0 via CVSup

2003-01-19 Thread John Bleichert
o, this is just a test box. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: newbie mail help

2003-01-19 Thread John Bleichert
ead about sendmail just makes my poor head spin. It is like > reading a foreign language. > > Thanks to all who have responded to my plea for help. > > Gary > Yep - email servers are pernicious, complex beasties, some worse than others. Fortunately, most of Unix is not nearly so complex. Good luck - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: newbie mail help

2003-01-19 Thread John Bleichert
. :-) > > Regards, > Shantanu Is all this required? Couldn't POP mail just be gotten in the normal way with e.g. kmail or netscape or mozilla? The above will allow you to use all manner of *nix email clients, but have you tried just setting up (say) mozilla mail or kmail in the

Re: Customizing the consol - Changing the resolution

2003-01-16 Thread John Bleichert
Note that in Unix if you're looking for help on a specific topic, try the 'apropos' command. Try: $ apropos console HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

/dev/ums0 busy, moused disabled

2003-01-15 Thread John Bleichert
cat /dev/ums0' trick I got from the Internet. When it's working, if you cat the device and move the mouse around you get a lot of gibberish in the terminal, it's a quick device test. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL P

Re: making avatars from digital camera images? (scripting shrinking)

2003-01-14 Thread John Bleichert
nd some online man pages at: http://www.imagemagick.org/ and it's also in the ports tree. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: /dev/apm: device not configured

2003-01-10 Thread John Bleichert
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Subject: Re: /dev/apm: device not configured > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:35:40AM -0500, John Bleichert wrote: > > > I'm trying to use apmd on my Thinkpad but I can't seem to figure it out. I > > have the support

/dev/apm: device not configured

2003-01-10 Thread John Bleichert
it doesn't seem to error out at boot time, but it doesn't work and I can't load it from the command line (same error about the unconfigured device). Any hints on how to get this working appreciated! Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsub

Re: kernel won't compile

2003-01-09 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Subject: Re: kernel won't compile > > On 2003-01-09 12:54, John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Darren wrote: > > > I have successfully compiled a new kernel once already on a new i

Re: getting sound working :(

2003-01-09 Thread John Bleichert
ort 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 to your kernel configuration file. The settings shown above are the defaults. You may need to change the IRQ or the other settings to match your card. See the sbc(4) manual page for more information. Does the sbc device show up in dmesg? PCI Soundblasters are

Re: kernel won't compile

2003-01-09 Thread John Bleichert
USTOM and starting over. But, it still > craps out. > > Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?? > > Thanks, > Darren > Did you make installworld and buildworld before trying to build a kernel agains the new source? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.

Re: tweaking the wheel on a cordless logitech mouse

2003-01-09 Thread John Bleichert
; > I've also installed imwheel, which is running. But still no wheel. > 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

Re: anyone tried KDE 3.1?

2003-01-08 Thread John Bleichert
y want to post this on the freebsd/kde mailing list: http://freebsd.kde.org/ JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: bootmgr labels

2003-01-06 Thread John Bleichert
't change them with the standard BSD bootloader, but you *can* use another bootloader (e.g. grub). See the list archives for all the gory details. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: with respect to the installing FreeBSD

2003-01-06 Thread John Bleichert
> bus pci > sis648 ATA 133 controller > I also get the message in the boot messages, (not 100% native, will > probe > later) if this is of any moment That message is nothing to worry about. Could you please provide some details on exactly *how* the installation is fail

Re: Error message trying to set up sound card

2003-01-05 Thread John Bleichert
cm0: irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci2 > >>pcm0: unable to map register space > >>devide_probe_and_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6 I've always beat this error by disabling 'PnP OS Installed' or it's equivalent in my BIOS. Check your BIOS, disable the 'PnP OS'

Re: OT: [was: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live...]

2003-01-02 Thread John Bleichert
. > In Audacity, I use /dev/dsp. Works with my SBLive - which card are you using? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: OT: multitrack recording [was: recording audio with SoundBlasterLive...]

2003-01-02 Thread John Bleichert
ems to be Linux-only and I have no idea what would be required to re-compile it for FreeBSD. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: port question

2003-01-02 Thread John Bleichert
something from the > ports? using freebsd 4.6.2 > make all-depends-list In the ports dir in question. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread John Bleichert
ated by a configuration program. You can either do this in /stand/sysinstall or by running 'xf86config' manually, which is my preferred method. Re-installing the box is certainly not necessary. I mean, this isn't Windows ;) # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live/pcm cards: has anyonetried this?

2003-01-02 Thread John Bleichert
in tracks the mic input is better, although I have to bring the input gain down with kmix. Also, if you need to 'clean up' your recordings to get the 'eggs-frying' noise out of the mix (all my vinyl has it :), Audacity has great noise filters and it's in the ports col

Re: How to see bootloader menu name correct?

2003-01-01 Thread John Bleichert
ou may be out of luck, unless you want to hack the FreeBSD bootloader and submmit it back to the project :) Seriously though, nobody seems too interested in fixing this issue, understandably. You can still boot ok, correct? Perhaps you could try another bootloader? Be warned that fiddling with y

Re: Sound card question

2003-01-01 Thread John Bleichert
m'): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re[2]: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD

2003-01-01 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Alex wrote: > To: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Steve Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re[2]: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD > > > Dear/Beste John, > > Wednesday, January 1, 2003, 11:27:08 PM, you w

Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD

2003-01-01 Thread John Bleichert
s fars as a card that works widely, nVidia provides binary drivers with 3d accelleration for Win32, Linux and BSD for their current cards. My Geforce2 AGP works great in Linux and BSD. Just a thought. That Voodoo3 should work fine, though no acdeleration tihs side of Mesa (software). JB # Jo

Re: sitecom

2003-01-01 Thread John Bleichert
support my card > > yours sincerely > > neel > I couldn't get any 32-bit cardbus cards working in FreeBSD 4.[5|6|7] - I think cardbus support is coming in 5.0. I've had a variety of 16-bit pc-cards working, though. The workhorse in my Thinkpad is a 3Com 3ccfe574bt.

Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD

2003-01-01 Thread John Bleichert
Monitor "cpd-200es" DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Simple Layout" Screen "Screen 1" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection ~ end XF86Config ~~ HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters

2003-01-01 Thread John Bleichert
varies from app to app and also with font/charset. Oh well, I expected it to be non-trivial. Taking a hint from XChat, I wrote a little C app that spits out the ASCII character I want, then I just copy/paste it into the app I'm using. Doesn't work everywhere, but it's some

Re: Using multiple window managers

2003-01-01 Thread John Bleichert
like) to start the window manager of your choice from the drop-down menu. Just a thought in case you want to keep it fully graphical. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters

2002-12-31 Thread John Bleichert
(though I don't use Pine or Mutt). > > Didn't wok for me in pine or nedit, although this may be charset dependent. Which apps does this work for you in? xterm? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

(OT) non-keyboard ascii characters

2002-12-31 Thread John Bleichert
Hello All Is there anyway to get e.g. a u with an umlaught over it (ASCII 159 I think) in a text emailer like pine or mutt, if your keyboard doesn's have said character? How about text editors like nedit? Hopefully not too, too offtopic. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert #

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread John Bleichert
tripping over mount(8) liek we all do the first time around .. :) If it still doesn't work post your dmesg output so we can see what type of CD player you have. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

RE: Multimedia question

2002-12-31 Thread John Bleichert
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Thomas Connolly wrote: > Subject: RE: Multimedia question > > Appreciate the information. I'll try them. > > Thanks, > Tom > I use 'mtv' for mpegs and 'xanim' for AVI files. They both work great. (Sorry, got into this

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread John Bleichert
evice at a directory. Above, you're trying to mount a device to nothing. Depending on how you have the mount point for your cd-player described in /etc/fstab, try this: # mount /cdrom HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Laptops w/ FreeBSD pre-loaded (somewhat OT)

2002-12-29 Thread John Bleichert
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Scott Robbins wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Laptops w/ FreeBSD pre-loaded (somewhat OT) > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:28:31PM -0500, John Bleichert wrote: > > Last year (when I wasn't in the market for a laptop) I found a > >

Laptops w/ FreeBSD pre-loaded (somewhat OT)

2002-12-29 Thread John Bleichert
thought I found the site linked from freebsd.org but no luck. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: IBM ThinkPad 765

2002-12-29 Thread John Bleichert
. Pls. provide the specs, and consider searching the freebsd-mobile archives and/or posting there. Good luck - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD

2002-12-24 Thread John Bleichert
teve Hodgson > Perhaps you should install FreeBSD and perform the X setup/debug after the system is up an running? That card will work fine in X, it just may take a little tweaking, although my voodoo3-2000 worked fine out of the gate. I always configure X after the opsys install, but that&

Re: mount problems.

2002-12-23 Thread John Bleichert
disk man page. Just a thought - this has happened to me when moving hard drives around. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: List etiquette

2002-12-22 Thread John Bleichert
27;d wait a week before reposting, and then try to ask the question a > different way, or provide more info. > Ocassionally there will be no response because nobody knows the answer *or* it's been answered ad nauseum in the archives. Re-posting with an update, however, does keep th

Re: Copying a CD

2002-12-21 Thread John Bleichert
x27;bs' switch as in $ dd bs=2048 if=/dev/acd0c of=x1 or I get the same results you do above. I'm not sure what happens if you use different block sizes, but the above allows me to e.g. make copies of Linux and BSD ISOs. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg T

Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio

2002-12-21 Thread John Bleichert
eful as Visio. However, if you just want a > nice looking graph of network connections, and you're happy > letting the computer arrange the nodes (for the most part), try > graphviz. > There is also Dia in ports/graphics/dia - works great and has some pre-defined sh

RE: dos emulators

2002-12-16 Thread John Bleichert
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Asenchi wrote: > Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 00:01:12 -0500 > From: Asenchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: dos emulators > > I wish I could go without using Foxpro. The company

Re: Ethernet fast Card

2002-12-15 Thread John Bleichert
works fine - not spectacular, but fine. See here for how to build your own kernel: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Good luck! And *please* always cc: the freebsd-questions list. JB > > > > > > > >From: John Bleichert <[

Re: Ethernet fast Card

2002-12-15 Thread John Bleichert
on 4.1 it > is not recognized by sysinstall.Do I have to buy another Ethernet Card? > > Max > > If you mean an LNE100TX card, it works fine with the dc driver. I don't remember if sysinstall recognized it but I always build a new kernel ASAP anyways, and it works fine. HTH - JB #

Re: dos emulators

2002-12-14 Thread John Bleichert
es (they were flat text files) and wrote some Perl to move it all into text and SQL statements to load it into a more modern database. In short, it may take you less time to reformat the data manually than it will to fsck around with FoxPro and get it to run reliably. So if you're po

nedit errors after sys/ports CVSup

2002-12-14 Thread John Bleichert
untered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate ... found while parsing ':osfActivate: PrimitiveParentActivate()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBackSpac

Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB

2002-12-14 Thread John Bleichert
On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: > Date: 13 Dec 2002 17:15:17 + > From: David Gethings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB > > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14

Re: LinkSys-EtherFast 10/100 PC Card questions

2002-12-13 Thread John Bleichert
ives of this list (and any of the Linux tech lists) for PCMPC100 and you'll see it's just not a very good card in the free *nix space. The only reason mine didn't end up in the trash is because a Windows-using friend wanted it. It's a bad performer for him too (just barely above 10 Mb) but he doesn't care... # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB

2002-12-13 Thread John Bleichert
gt; Dg > This can't be a bug or limitation in FreeBSD's fdisk, it must be a quirk in your hardware (we've all seen them hehe!). Since 4.5, I've had FreeBSD installed on several boxes with enormous hard drives in various partitioning schemes without a glitch. I had iss

Re: Screen shots?

2002-12-12 Thread John Bleichert
you have ImageMagick installed, alt+f2 in kde to get a run prompt and type: import -window root screenshot.jpg That's how I get the one below. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: PRoblem with kernel compilation

2002-12-12 Thread John Bleichert
d.o(.text+0x780): more undefined references to `kbddriver_set' follow > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src/sys/compile/HOME. > > Looks like maybe you've forgotten to include (or more likely erroneosuly deleted) support for a keyboard? Can you post your kernel conf

Re: PCMCIA device timeouts

2002-12-11 Thread John Bleichert
ots. > > Any suggestions greatly appreciated. > Sorry I can't help, but I can tell you I had the same experience with a PCMPC100 in FreeBSD and Linux. I never got it to work fully in FreeBSD - I did get it to work in Linux, but it performed very very badly. I ended up replaci

Re: port upgrade method question

2002-12-11 Thread John Bleichert
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Darren Shepard wrote: > Subject: Re: port upgrade method question > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:07:40AM -0500, >John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | I've CVSup'd my system and my ports tree (ports-all). Now I'm using >

Re: Soundblaster Live troubles

2002-12-11 Thread John Bleichert
at the same time, which is unfortunate. No kernel panics or bad behavior, it just doesnt work. However I can play lots of audio streams at the same time. Exactly which model sblive! is yours? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

port upgrade method question

2002-12-11 Thread John Bleichert
tsdb? Also, I see references in the archives to # cd /usr/ports # make index Do I need to do this? Everything seems to be working well, I'm just wondering if my method is proper. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: INDEX file layout

2002-12-10 Thread John Bleichert
On 9 Dec 2002, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Subject: Re: INDEX file layout > > John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, John Bleichert wrote: > > > > > Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:20:26 -0500 (EST) > > > From: John Bleicher

Re: make instalworld error

2002-12-10 Thread John Bleichert
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-10 12:10:12 -0500: > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, John Bleichert wrote: > > > From: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ... > > > > I'm getting an error when runn

Re: make instalworld error

2002-12-10 Thread John Bleichert
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, John Bleichert wrote: > Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:12:06 -0500 (EST) > From: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: make instalworld error > > I'm getting an error when running 'make installworld' which

make instalworld error

2002-12-10 Thread John Bleichert
/usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. -su-2.05b# ls -lR | grep osreldate.h -su-2.05b# which touch /usr/bin/touch ~~~~~~ Anyh idea why I'm getting this? The osreldate.h file doesn&#

Re: grip cd ripper - which one

2002-12-10 Thread John Bleichert
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 00:31:01 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John > Bleichert) wrote: > > > > >Whoops!! I never installed cdrtools, burncd has been working well. > > > >Thanks for the pointer! > > Surely it only works for SCSI CDs though? > You mean 'b

Re: grip cd ripper - which one

2002-12-09 Thread John Bleichert
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, paul beard wrote: > Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:22:38 -0800 > From: paul beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: grip cd ripper - which one > > John Bleichert wrote: > >

grip cd ripper - which one

2002-12-09 Thread John Bleichert
uld I tell it to use? Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: where did xmms go?

2002-12-09 Thread John Bleichert
On 9 Dec 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Subject: Re: where did xmms go? > On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 15:15, John Bleichert wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, James A. Arnold wrote: > > > Subject: where did xmms go? > > > > I have it in 4.7: > > > > johnny

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