Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE?

2001-08-03 Thread btjones
Antony T Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: Go for RUTABAGA. It's cute. We cannot use -APPLE, -APRICOT, -CHERRY nor -ORANGE or some company would get very sour... But there is -BANANA, -PEAR, -GRAPE, -NECTARINE, -TOMATO, -MELON, -STRAWBERRY, -RASPBERRY... Or

Re: USB question

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 04:10:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was attempting to install my new MS optical Intellimouse on the USB port instead of the PS/2 port, but I am getting the following when I do a 'dmesg' after recompliing my kernel with

Re: Fat kernel, needs dieting (again :-)

2001-08-03 Thread Carlo Dapor
Someone said on [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The other day a guy (sorry I forgot who) says that That was me, [EMAIL PROTECTED], see also http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29272 and the copy of the earlier message below. But [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlo Dapor) questions this:

Re: moving to XFree86-4

2001-08-03 Thread needle-mls
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:35:32PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: | Any caveats I should look out for moving to version 4? My only issue with it, is that ports seems to be rather confused about where to register dependencies for X programs. If you have XF86 v4 installed and try to install a window

Re: moving to XFree86-4

2001-08-03 Thread Antoine Beaupre (LMC)
Chuck MacKinnon wrote: Why not just run xf86cfg. Then you can set up the screens and resolutions etc. Not too hard to figure out. Sorry people, I didn't know about xf86cfg. :) I *will* try it out. I still have glitches with my old config anyways. I'm definitly getting this thread OT,

Re: upgrade

2001-08-03 Thread klein brock
so.. by doing cvsup, my OS from FreeBSD4.2-STABLE will change automatically to FreeBSD4.3-STABLE ? Thanks. --- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: klein brock [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: i want to upgrade my FreeBSD4.2-STABLE to FreeBSD4.3-STABLE can anybody help me ? or give me some

Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE?

2001-08-03 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:51:30PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:54:02AM -0400, Bob K wrote: I like -BEET. It's short, means nothing, and is red. What more could you ask for? :P Suggest -FOO has a long standing meaning of

Re: SMBFS panic: malloc: wrong bucket (was: 4.3-20010721-STABLE)

2001-08-03 Thread Boris Popov
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Tim Zingelman wrote: This is a known bug, but not fixed. I worked with the maintainer, Boris Popov on it a little, but in my case it took some time between the mount and the panic, and I was not able to give him login access to the machines involved. As a result it

Re: Beware of WindRiver Systems!

2001-08-03 Thread Ross Lippert
I don't know if this thread is really relevant to this list, but assuming it is, my $.02. Mine came way late only after multiple emails with windriver. Once alerted they responded quickly. I wasn't sure how soon after a RELEASE was announced to start nagging them (anyone want to answer that?).

Intel 82562ET Kinnereth

2001-08-03 Thread Eric Veraart
Hello, Does anyone know if the Intel 82562ET Kinnereth (NIC) will function properly under FreeBSD? It's integrated on the Intel D815EEA motherboard. Greetings, Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: Bridge?

2001-08-03 Thread Ted Sikora
Rémi Guyomarch wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 06:48:42AM -0400, Ted Sikora wrote: I have stable on both cable and dsl. The following message (rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat: ^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^) has been a mainstay in stable for some time. I have 2 nic cards in the machines. Do I need

Re: moving to XFree86-4

2001-08-03 Thread Jorge Aldana
I'm having the same toubles with freetype2-2.0.3_1 which is actually at 2.0.4 in the packages ftp sites (and mirrors). In fact Mesa-3.4.2_1 also has the same hangup, but I'm not sure if its in its required list. Somehow I think this points back to the older problem with the INDEX file in the

Re: PERC 3 Dell 2500 and FreeBSD 4.3 stable

2001-08-03 Thread Mike Smith
Hope this helps others on Dell, it would be great to get Dell to offers these controllers instead of those crappy PERC controllers, but these I guess are too expensive??? There's not much more subjective than RAID controllers, except perhaps text editors. 8) I'm glad you're happy with the

oh my god ... again, no diskless boot ...

2001-08-03 Thread Hartmann, O.
Hello. Well, yesterday I ran into trouble after installing the newest sources of FBSD 4.3-STABLE. We lost our diskless X-terminals because they won't boot after that update. Yesterday night I copied /etc/ of the diskless root from etc.bak back to etc and was wondering that all X terminals booted

Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE?

2001-08-03 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:54:02AM -0400, Bob K wrote: I like -BEET. It's short, means nothing, and is red. What more could you ask for? :P Suggest -FOO has a long standing meaning of nonsense in computer lingo. Or -FOOBAR. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: moving to XFree86-4

2001-08-03 Thread James Satterfield
I always install FreeBSD without X and make XFree86-4 from ports. xf86cfg cores. I just hack the output of XFree86 -configure tho, so it's no big deal. James. -Original Message- From: Richard Glidden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:14 PM To: James

Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE?

2001-08-03 Thread Jamie Norwood
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:00:49AM -0400, Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: Go for RUTABAGA. It's cute. Besides, Debian does it and everybody likes it. It allows us to pick names in honor of dead people. Yay. ;) I like this, and vote for -POUL for this branch, to forever pay homage to a

Re: moving to XFree86-4

2001-08-03 Thread Antoine Beaupre (LMC)
I found that pkg_delete -a and make install of all necessary ports is an extremely healthy activity as it removes a extremely big load of crap (read: useless/unused software). Just reinstall it all. You probably don't need that much anyways. ;) For the record, I don't any easy way. A. j

Yet again changing branch names? (Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE?)

2001-08-03 Thread Antoine Beaupre (LMC)
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 7:07 PM -0700 8/2/01, Chad R. Larson wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2001, Andrew Boothman wrote: I prefer -SECURITY, because it makes it clear this is the branch dedicated to security fixes and nothing else. Yes, but then the newbies would think this was some

moving to XFree86-4

2001-08-03 Thread j mckitrick
If I have backup up my old /usr/X11R6, is there an easy way to move my apps to XFree86-4? Or do I need to 'make reinstal' all of my X ports? jm -- Investigators have discovered the cause of the TWA 800 explosion was a frayed wire. The wire became frayed when it was struck by a missile. To