Chris wrote:
First and foremost hello, and thank you for offering a program such as this for
free. I have not yet installed or tried the FreeBSD platform (am downloading it
currently), but I do have a few questions before i waste more cd's to install
yet another possible failure of an OS (of
I got my printing working by installing apsfilter and by following
some of the instructions in the (printed) The FreeBSD Handbook 2ed. I
am using FreeBSD 5.3, an HP940c Deskjet, parallel port connection, and
the lpr method of printing (rather than the CUPS method).
Initially I followed the
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).% 0 0 0%
Okay, this seems a little strange. The only time I've really seen a
message such as this is when I quit whatever window manager I'm currently
running with other applications still open.
Maybe the fact that I'm using
Is there an easy way to configure a printer? I've spent over 6 hours so
far, and all I can print is 2 blank sheets of paper whenever I try to
print something.
I was using fluxbox-devel and an HP Deskhet 940c, but I also just tried
installing Gnome2 in the hopes it would have a printer config
I'm trying to watch some movies from archive.org, but I'm not familiar
with the correct process. I installed xine and avifiles, but they can't
play the free mpeg4 movies I'm downloading from archive.org.
Am I supposed to install the codecs separately? Or should I be using a
different video
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:24:16AM -0500, bsdnooby wrote:
I'm trying to watch some movies from archive.org, but I'm not familiar
with the correct process. I installed xine and avifiles, but they can't
play the free mpeg4 movies I'm downloading from archive.org.
I
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:24:16AM -0500, bsdnooby wrote:
I'm trying to watch some movies from archive.org, but I'm not familiar
with the correct process. I installed xine and avifiles, but they can't
play the free mpeg4 movies I'm downloading from archive.org.
I
Miguel Mendez wrote:
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:07:37 -0500
bsdnooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get an error when I try to install mplayer. Something about a fetch
size mismatch on Blue-1.4.tar.bz. I'm not sure how to cut and paste the
error, I thought the middle mouse button would cut from
Randi Harper wrote:
Here is the error:
= Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/.
fetch: ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2: size
mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221733
= Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/.
fetch:
Randi Harper wrote:
Here is the error:
= Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/.
fetch: ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2: size
mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221733
= Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/.
fetch:
I haven't had much luck watching movies. I tried avilfiles, mplayer,
and xine. The file types I was trying to play were MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4,
and MPEG4-edit.
I wanted to watch a movie about Japan, so after searching for Japan here:
http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php
I took the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:14:10 -0500
bsdnooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelingercollectionid=19296
I downloaded every version of it, and haven't been able to watch any of
them. I tried some other movies
2 machines installed and updated fine, #3 has errors on cvsup -g -L 2
stable-supfile.
the error messages say something about head file, but it seems to finish
then when i do make buildworld it blows up with errors
i realise this isn't much to go on, but I wanted to post a headsup in
case
dick hoogendijk wrote:
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:34:47 -0600
Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's another company that offers FreeBSD virtual servers:
http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html
The last few days I get a lot of mail from this list *twice*
Anybody ideas what's
When I run 'make buildworld' I get a series of errors like this:
rm -f .depend GPATH GRTAGS GSYMS GTAGS
=== bin/domainname
Makefile, line 3: Need an operator
...
Makefile, line 33 Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src/bin
*** Error
Thank you for all the feedback, everyone. I have plenty of good leads
to follow up on now.
thx!
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:
bsdnooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I run 'make buildworld' I get a series of errors like this:
rm -f .depend GPATH GRTAGS GSYMS GTAGS
=== bin/domainname
Makefile, line 3: Need an operator
...
Makefile, line 33 Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot
Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
On 21 Feb bsdnooby wrote:
Thank you for all the feedback, everyone. I have plenty of good leads
to follow up on now.
Yeah sure, but all this stuff about misconfigured mailservers does not
answer my original question or does it? Are there more people who
should
Doug White wrote:
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, bsdnooby wrote:
Yes it does.
When I run cvsup -g -L 2 stable-supfile I see a bunch of errors with
Head in them. here is one of them:
Server warning: RCS file error in
/cvs/cvsupd/prefixes/FreeBSD.cvs/src/bin/sh/var.h,v: 1: head expected
Then when I run
If you have an HP or Compaq laptop, and you see this problem TRY the
R3000Z patches.
I tried a bunch of things to get my HP Pavilion to work, but I decided I
would delay converting this machine until I know more about what I am
doing. FreeBSD 5.3 *does* install on another P3-650 laptop on
Instead of getting a fixed IP address at my house, and having a noisy
machine running all the time - I think I might want to try renting a
dedicated FreeBSD server. It would be used for running Apache, phpBB,
email, listserv, and a few other services. I found several places that
have
I'm defeated. The FreeBSD install gives no hints as to why it turns off
my laptop.
When I try to install FreeBSD, my brand new I'm blue.HP Pavilion laptop
turns itself off. It does not matter if I use 4.x or 5.x, CD or
floppies. There is no error log since it just shuts off after I choose
Hi,
When I try to install FreeBSD, my brand new HP Pavilion laptop turns
itself off. It does not matter if I use 4.x or 5.x, CD or floppies.
There is no error log since it just shuts off after I choose to load a
kernel. I have tried loading with ACPI off, and it does not help. I
believe I
HP Pavillion zv5445us shuts down during install of 5.3
Right after the screen when you can choose to disable ACPI or to boot in
SafeMode (both of which I tried), after making a selection - it
shutsdown. I'm trying to install 5.3 from both floppies and CD1. I'm
dualbooting Win XP Pro using
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
does it work with 4.11?
Ted
It does not work with 4.x either. I will collect my hardware specs and
post those, shortly. The frustrating thing is that the system simply
turns itself off after I choose to install, so there is no error log.
I might also post my
HP Pavillion zv5445us shuts down during install of 5.3
Right after the screen when you can choose to disable ACPI or to boot in
SafeMode (both of which I tried), after making a selection - it
shutsdown. I'm trying to install 5.3 from both floppies and CD1. I'm
dualbooting Win XP Pro using
Right after the screen when you can choose to disable ACPI or to boot in
SafeMode (both of which I tried), after making a selection - it
shutsdown. I'm trying to install 5.3 from both floppies and CD1. I'm
dualbooting Win XP Pro using PartitionMagic8/BootMagic8 - but I do not
think that is
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