Re: filesystem hierarchy

2006-11-14 Thread Eli Green
On 2006-11-14, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:57:02PM +0100, Eli Green wrote: It seems to me that DragonFly is not very far from the stated goal of having multiple libraries as it is, using varsyms or maybe a slightly specialized version of nullfs: [snip] (a) As Jeremy

Re: Problem with 'core pointer' (Xorg)

2006-11-09 Thread Eli Green
I believe /dev/sysmouse is created by moused, it will only exist if you're running it. If you have no use for moused, just put /dev/ums0 (USB) or /dev/psm0 (PS/2) in your xorg config. If you want console mousing (moused never seemed to be as useful as gpm to me, but I'll bet it is if you set it

Re: ftpd is slow

2006-10-30 Thread Eli Green
Is your FTP daemon doing reverse DNS lookups on an unfindable address? That can significantly slow the connection down. On 2006-10-30, Eugene wrote: Hello All. I have an ftpd on both my server machines, one is running FreeBSD 4.7 and the pther one is running DragonFlyBSD 1.6.0. The problem is

Re: ftpd is slow

2006-10-30 Thread Eli Green
hosts to /etc/hosts and see if that helps. But it's possible I'm wrong about the lookups being the cause of the problem since I can't find anything about ftpd or inetd doing reverse lookups (or at least any way to disable them). On 2006-10-30, Eugene wrote: Eli Green wrote: Is your FTP daemon

Re: watchdog timeout with nfe(4)

2006-10-26 Thread Eli Green
On 2006-10-25, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Eli Green wrote: I tried with the nv driver and the results are the same, but the message I receive is device timeout. Do you use nv with polling or without? Using emergency_intr or not? neither. I occasionally have device timeouts

Re: watchdog timeout with nfe(4)

2006-10-24 Thread Eli Green
On 2006-10-23, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Eli Green wrote: The ridiculous popularity of the nForce boards usually means that drivers get written for the important components. Once I've got the network card working, I'll try the FreeBSD HDA patch that somebody posted recently and see

Re: watchdog timeout with nfe(4)

2006-10-23 Thread Eli Green
On 2006-10-23, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Eli Green wrote: The ridiculous popularity of the nForce boards usually means that drivers get written for the important components. Once I've got the network card working, I'll try the FreeBSD HDA patch that somebody posted recently and see

Re: watchdog timeout with nfe(4)

2006-10-22 Thread Eli Green
On 2006-10-22, Eli Green wrote: Hey all, I'm having problems with the onboard ethernet on a new motherboard (ASUS A8N-VM CSM) which is the GeForce 6150 / nForce 430 combination board. I think that's an MCP51. The card is only connected to an ADSL modem with a 10baseT port. Nothing fancy

watchdog timeout with nfe(4)

2006-10-22 Thread Eli Green
Hey all, I'm having problems with the onboard ethernet on a new motherboard (ASUS A8N-VM CSM) which is the GeForce 6150 / nForce 430 combination board. I think that's an MCP51. The card is only connected to an ADSL modem with a 10baseT port. Nothing fancy. When I first load if_nfe, I get nfe0,

Re: watchdog timeout with nfe(4)

2006-10-22 Thread Eli Green
the network card working, I'll try the FreeBSD HDA patch that somebody posted recently and see if the sound card works -- it should, I'm pretty sure it's an intel chipset. On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:56:56 -0700, walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Eli Green wrote: On 2006-10-22, Eli

Re: excel files

2006-01-30 Thread Eli Green
Gnumeric doesn't seem to be in the pkgsrc binaries but it's probably easier to get to compile than OpenOffice. I think it's definitely less bloaty. Depending on how fancy the .xls files are, you could try antiexcel (a perl script, I believe). I think it just outputs text, hopefully there's a