Portupgrading ports with individual settings.

Very neophyte'ish question again, but: I currently have Qt installed and now downloaded the distfile for a new version. I'd like to compile this new version with the WITHOUT_OPENGL option, which isn't the default. If I have portupgrade -ra do this, it will use the default settings, I believe. How

RE: ports on a CD

Sounds like a business opportunity. Make and sell CD sets with the 'missing' ports. Every couple of months, a new snapshot of the entire ports tree with all of the legally-CD-able distfiles; for people who don't have the (cheap) bandwidth to stay up to date with cvsup... I believe

Simple Make question.

This is one of those questions that label me as a complete neophyte, but, how does one specify a paramter for the Make tool? When trying to make install the port of the Qt version of licq (net/licq-qt-gui), a message said that I could compile this port with KDE support by defining WITH_KDE. I've

XFree86 -- Gamma Correction

Hello, all, I successfully managed to install the FreeBSD nVidia video drivers, but ran into a problem that is apparently X related: How does one tune the gamma correction? man XFree86 suggests the command line option -gamma value, where value is a number between 0.1 and 10.0, 1.0 being the

Partitioning advice (/usr and /home)

I'm trying to figure out a decent partitioning layout for a workstation. The system has an ~80GB disk. After /, /var, /tmp and swap, I have 70GB left. I'm wondering how to split these between /usr and /home. Ironically, it is more space than I seem to need. The box has only one user (me), I do not

RE: Easy boot between FBSD and WinXP

Hi, Denis, This sounds pretty much like my set-up. All I had to do was to let Sysinstall write a BootMgr on *both* disks. In /stand/sysinstall, just go in the Fdisk section, select your first drive, don't do anything else here, and immediately leave with Q. It will ask you if you want to write

Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

Hello! My apologies for the length of this post. Summary: 4.x or 5.x for a desktop machine, disk partitioning for a workstation, miscellaneous installation questions. Okay, the details! Now that I have my local FreeBSD server (mail/news, router, firewall) successfully running, I'm ready to

PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration.

Hello! This is my third month with FreeBSD, and while so far everything worked mostly fine, I think I now hit a wall. Hard. Please note that I lack Unix and networking background, so expect me to sound embarrassingly amateurish. The current situation: Over the past few weeks I used a network

RE: PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration.

Henrik wrote: Not a lot of detailed help..sorry...I haven't setup a PPP connection in a LONG time. The good news is that in a year I'll relocate to an area where ADSL is available. Until then I'm stuck in a beautiful but telecommunication-wise terribly medieval area. I received an e-mail from

PPP and the backslash-containing AT command in ppp.conf

I am fairly to FreeBSD (and any kind of Unix), so please be easy on me in case I'm overlooking the obvious. :) I've been trying to connect to my ISP with an external Elsa Microlink ISDN/TL pro modem. The init string that the modem requires is ATF\N9. I modified the following line in

RE: PPP and the backslash-containing AT command in ppp.conf

Malcolm wrote: Sould work if you use '', that is: ATFN9 which the first interpretation reduces to: ATF\\N9 Thank you! This worked indeed. After an hour of frustrating fiddling I also figured out that the string I needed for this particular ISP was ATF\N10 rather than ATF\N9 -- and yet