Re: Error upgrading KDE with portupgrade

2005-10-05 Thread nbco
postdates this one. Generally, the UPDATING file is my first port of call if there are any errors in upgrades. I hope this helps .nbco 20050320: AFFECTS: users of x11/kde3, x11/kdelibs3, x11/kdebase3, x11-themes/kdeartwork3, www/akregator, x11-themes/phase, multimedia/kdem

Re: re vlc 0.8.2 compile errors on 5.4

2005-09-28 Thread nbco
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 19:13, Alan Gerber wrote: > nbco wrote: > >Hi List, > >I am having problems compiling vlc 0.8.2 on 5.4. I can add it as a > >package but when portupgrade or portmanager tries to update it. I > > get the following compile error: > &

re vlc 0.8.2 compile errors on 5.4

2005-09-28 Thread nbco
1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade87320.59 make ** Fix the problem and try again. I have tried deinstalling and reinstalling. I have also tried making vlc-devel but I get the same error. Any ideas would be appreciated, as this it totally driving me nuts. Thanks .nbco _

Re: video surveillance with freebsd

2005-09-03 Thread nbco
gt; Vittorio Hhmmm I used to have a landlord like that... .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread nbco
ill correctly add the first two numbers together but not subsequent sums, exactly as described by the original poster. I also am using 5.4. FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #11: Tue May 10 18:36:45 BST 2005 .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: not-yet-a-newbie : DL (ftp?) iso image help question

2005-07-06 Thread nbco
such as Shareaza, and get the iso via P2P: http://www.shareaza.com/ In terms of documentation, the handbook is the best place to start: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO88http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/59-1/books/handbook/ All the best .nbco

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread nbco
#DAEMON-NAME Please don't initiate a discussion about this as this thread demonstrates, the issue has been discussed to death: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/076061.html Many thanks .nbco ___ freebsd-questio

Re: Adding my CDRW device to k3b

2005-04-14 Thread nbco
On Friday 15 April 2005 00:08, Justin R. Pessa wrote: > On Apr 15 12:06AM, nbco wrote: > > On Friday 15 April 2005 00:00, Justin R. Pessa wrote: > > > Allo! > > > > > > I'm having problems trying to get k3b to recognize my CDRW drive. > > > I went

Re: Adding my CDRW device to k3b

2005-04-14 Thread nbco
Then you can change the permissions for the devices or just run it as root hope this helps .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: if this ethernet works

2005-03-05 Thread nbco
On Saturday 05 March 2005 16:54, Antoine Solomon wrote: > I wanted to see if anyone knew of this getting this ethernet working > on fbsd here is is > Broadcom BCM5721 PCI Express GbE Try the bge driver .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: Please help if you can

2005-03-05 Thread nbco
f 12,000 "programs" which you can download and use. The ports will replace your Windows applications. It is worth finding out what people use as, say, media players. For example, if you wanted a media player on Windows most people will use one of

Re: Openoffice startup question

2005-02-06 Thread nbco
or as > root. This is true even when I move to /usr/local/bin where there > are several openoffice files. Hi there, Go to: /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.4 then enter the command (as root) ./spadmin hope this helps .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: couldn't start KDE.

2005-02-03 Thread nbco
E_unix directory, UPDATING deals with it in part (see below). I like having clear_tmp_enable="YES" so to avoid this problem, I created the directory /etc/rc.local with the following line: mkdir -p -m 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix This means that I can still clear out my tmp directories automati

Re: Realplayer cannot find libraries

2005-01-18 Thread nbco
problem is currently being resolved, check out this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2005-January/000733.html It seems that you should rebuild linux X11 libs hope this helps .nbco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Realplayer cannot find libraries, after upgrade from ports

2005-01-16 Thread nbco
On Sunday 16 January 2005 14:15, Rob Lahaye wrote: > Rob Lahaye wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just upgraded all my software from recent ports. > > Now realplayer (10.0.2_1) doesn't run anymore, because it cannot > > find its libraries: > > > > $ ldd /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin | grep "not

Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-07 Thread nbco
c. I have added the following line: HOLD_PKGS = ['openoffice-*'] This entry will prevent portupgrade attempting to upgrade the port. If you are using portmanager see this thread to see how to avoid portmanager attempting to upgrade a held port: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebs

Re: re portmanager, how to prevent upgrade of held ports

2005-01-01 Thread nbco
On Friday 31 December 2004 23:32, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Friday 31 December 2004 09:49 am, nbco wrote: > > Any ideas as to how to make portmanager ignore held ports? > If you were to move /var/db/pkg/openoffice-1.1.4.20041101_1 (assuming > that is the version you have insta

re portmanager, how to prevent upgrade of held ports

2004-12-31 Thread nbco
honour the hold_pkgs in pkgtools.conf. Any ideas as to how to make portmanager ignore held ports? This problem makes portmanager unusable for me, as it updates openoffice first, so it never actually gets to the smaller out of date ports. Many tha

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-07 Thread nbco
On Monday 08 November 2004 00:28, Quinn Ellis wrote: > nbco wrote: > >Hey list, > >I downloaded the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1 iso via bittorrent. > > > >The iso (644.91MB) downloaded in about 3 hours, over a 512/256 adsl > >connection. Which I think is pretty good. &

re bittorrent

2004-11-07 Thread nbco
Hey list, I downloaded the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1 iso via bittorrent. The iso (644.91MB) downloaded in about 3 hours, over a 512/256 adsl connection. Which I think is pretty good. There don't seem to be that many people uploading it from me at the moment. I'm impres

Re: GPL vs BSD Licence

2004-10-27 Thread nbco
n your cupholder, so you buy it. I have to say I generally really approve of TM4525's attitude, but on this one, you can't fool all of the people all of the time... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3523303.stm coca cola no longer sells water in England, even though it be real purdy, the pu

Re: Fwd: Re: em0 problems on t41 after updating to 5.3

2004-10-15 Thread nbco
Hey list, There has been a patch submitted for this problem, which resolved my connectivity problems - see: kern/72748: em0 problems on t41 after updating to 5.3 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/040502.html Thanks to everyone for all their help. .nbco

Re: Fwd: Re: em0 problems on t41 after updating to 5.3

2004-10-15 Thread nbco
On Friday 15 October 2004 23:23, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:51:19PM +0100, nbco wrote: > > On Friday 15 October 2004 21:34, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > This is a known problem - you should subscribe to the -current > > > list to watch for patches y

Fwd: Re: em0 problems on t41 after updating to 5.3

2004-10-15 Thread nbco
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: em0 problems on t41 after updating to 5.3 Date: Friday 15 October 2004 21:28 From: nbco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 15 October 2004 21:09, pete wright wrote: > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:14:35 +0100, nbc

em0 problems on t41 after updating to 5.3

2004-10-15 Thread nbco
perfectly. I have tested the ethernet card (em0) in my dual boot windows install, it works fine, so it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem. My other box on the network is also fine. Any ideas would be most gratefully received, I'm totally clueless on thi

Re: port problem in AMD 64

2004-10-15 Thread nbco
his sounds like a library problem see: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/040013.html .nbco ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread nbco
.1. isos on my box, and accessible to the peer networks, but as yet have never noticed anyone downloading them. Once I move to 5.3 I could seed it and we can see whether it is picked up. I don't think there is any real reason to seed 5.2.1. .nbco ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Question

2004-09-16 Thread nbco
eebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ The handbook is being updated for 5.3 at this time, so it would probably be better to wait until the release is cut to print out a copy as it's a pretty big book .nbco ___ [EMAIL PR