Re: How-to use a USB joypad?

2003-09-26 Thread Nick Holley
Thierry Thomas wrote: Hello, I have got a USB joypad, and it is sensed by the system (either 4.9 or 5.1): uhid0: Microsoft Microsoft SideWinder Plug & Play Game Pad, rev 1.00/1.01, addr 2, iclass 3/0 I have got a new device /dev/uhid0 and kldloaded joy.ko. When I run perl -e 'open(JOY,"/dev/uhi

Re: audio problem - /dev/dsp: op. not supported by device

2003-09-26 Thread Nick Holley
Nathan Kinkade wrote: I recently upgraded my system from 4.8-STABLE to 5.1-RELEASE. I haven't had any problems except with XMMS. Randomly XMMS will fail after it finishes playing a song and before it has started the next - the error dialog says "Couldn't open audio" in the title bar. The messag

Re: Gaim

2003-09-27 Thread Nick Holley
Bryan Cassidy wrote: Has anyone had problems connecting to Yahoo on Gaim for the last couple days? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/2027253&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=95 Sucks. Should be a work around sometime in the near future though. Nick _

Re: kernel.GENERIC question

2003-10-01 Thread Nick Holley
denisz wrote: hi, did it necessary to update the /kernel.GENERIC when doing system update? (note that the kernel usually being used is the customized one) and how to do that ? Sometimes, it's always good to check. I don't use a customized kernel so I can't speak from experience, but this might be

Re: FreeBSD newbye simple question

2004-11-05 Thread nick holley
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:29:07 +, Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) I want to tailor my freeBSD slice according to my machine (gentoo > experience is helpful!). Now, while i I know how to compile an > application in /usr/ports I cannot find sources of the "base system" I > had to install wh

Re: firefox or mozilla don't run

2004-11-05 Thread nick holley
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:14:33 +0100, Didier Wiroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running xfce4 with xorg 6.7.0. When I try to launch firefox or mozilla. I get > the >following error > error: no running window found > > To be able to run the apps, I need to: > 1) xhost +local > 2) su > 3) type m

issues booting 5.3

2004-11-06 Thread nick holley
I downloaded the 5.3 bootonly disc this morning and was unable to boot. I had the same problem that I experienced with the 5.3-RC2 and also when I did a buildworld from 5.2.1. The kernel appears to be booting fine until it gets to a certain point where it will stop. The boot process stops right aft

Re: issues booting 5.3 w/ A7N8X Deluxe

2004-11-06 Thread nick holley
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 16:58:45 -0700, nick holley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded the 5.3 bootonly disc this morning and was unable to > boot. I had the same problem that I experienced with the 5.3-RC2 and > also when I did a buildworld from 5.2.1. The kernel appears to be