Re: screen alternative

2006-01-26 Thread Alan Gerber
://www.freshports.org/sysutils/screen/ -- Alan Gerber Grzegorz Danecki wrote: Hi List! I'm running 5.4 Stable and I'm looking for something, that can let me detach my session leaving my software running. First thought - screen, but hey, there is no screen package in ports collection :( Google says something

Re: Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread Alan Gerber
the driver at startup. The proper driver as I recall is snd_ich, so you'll need to use the line: snd_ich_load=YES -- Alan Gerber Doug Poland wrote: On Thu, January 12, 2006 12:15, Li, Qing wrote: Has anyone successfully gotten the sound to work on the Dell D600 laptop running

wpa_supplicant setup problems

2005-11-13 Thread Alan Gerber
guys - any ideas on what I can do to make this work properly? Ideally, I'd like to make wpa_supplicant look for the home ssid with the defined PSK, and if it fails to authenticate using that, then fall back to plaintext mode. -- Alan Gerber ___ freebsd

Re: bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic

2005-10-15 Thread Alan Gerber
problems? -- Alan Gerber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: re vlc 0.8.2 compile errors on 5.4

2005-09-28 Thread Alan Gerber
and things will work for you. I'm no expert, but I'm guessing that removing the smb functionality in this manner will prevent one from directly accessing smb shares via the vlc interface. If you fall into this situation, I'd suggest mounting the share via mount_smbfs. -- Alan Gerber

Re: portmanager loop?

2005-01-26 Thread Alan Gerber
I'd like to report a similar problem with the linux_base system. My box has been recompiling linux_base-rh-7.3 for 12 hours now! :-) The three strikes method sounds like a good temporary fix to the problem. Please let us know when you get it posted! -- Alan Gerber Michael C. Shultz wrote

Re: Scroll whell on FreeBSD 5.3 i386

2005-01-24 Thread Alan Gerber
If one is using the auto-configure feature of xorg, how does one specify this override? If there is no way to override this setting [so that one must create an xorg.cfg file, is there a way to pull out the currently-running configuration? -- Alan Gerber Andrew Hall wrote: Add this to your

Re: Scroll whell on FreeBSD 5.3 i386

2005-01-24 Thread Alan Gerber
Oops. Forgot to send this to the list. :-) Alan Gerber wrote: In my particular place, I have nothing in /etc/X11. In other words, I have not created a configuration file yet - xorg has been automatically detecting my installation just fine [with the obvious exception of the mouse wheel

Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely

2004-12-30 Thread Alan Gerber
or anything, but it is good enough for my backup system at home. :-) -- Alan Gerber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB flash drive support/usage

2004-12-21 Thread Alan Gerber
need to fdisk and {disk,bsd}label first? See above response. Any favorite/least-favorite brands/models or recommendations as to which one(s) to seek/avoid for use with FreeBSD? I love my Lexar Jumpdrive. I have the 512MB version, but they're up to 1GB now, IIRC. Thanks, -kc -- Alan

Re: Trouble with ULE scheduler

2004-12-17 Thread Alan Gerber
://love.ngs.ru - [attached files removed to save bandwidth] The ULE scheduler was for all practical purposes disabled in 5.3 because of instability problems some people noticed with it - so the developers are working on fixing those bugs. In the meantime, you should continue to use SCHED_4BSD. -- Alan

Re: difference between releases

2004-11-08 Thread Alan Gerber
you the best set of testing you can reasonably ask for in a code base that is always being updated. So what it comes down to is that releases are snapshots of a particular CVS branch at a particular point in time that gets special attention in terms of use and testing. -- Alan Gerber

Re: Kernel modules the 5.2.1-p9 to 5.3b7 migration?

2004-10-11 Thread Alan Gerber
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Sunday 10 October 2004 01:35 pm, Alan Gerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Sunday 10 October 2004 12:47 pm, Alan Gerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently decided to update my 5.2.1-p9 system to the latest beta to check out

Re: Kernel modules the 5.2.1-p9 to 5.3b7 migration?

2004-10-10 Thread Alan Gerber
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 03:47:30PM -0400, Alan Gerber wrote: I recently decided to update my 5.2.1-p9 system to the latest beta to check out the improvements in ACPI code on my Dell Latitude D600 laptop. So I updated sources and went through the usual [build|install

Re: Kernel modules the 5.2.1-p9 to 5.3b7 migration?

2004-10-10 Thread Alan Gerber
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Sunday 10 October 2004 12:47 pm, Alan Gerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently decided to update my 5.2.1-p9 system to the latest beta to check out the improvements in ACPI code on my Dell Latitude D600 laptop. So I updated sources and went through the usual [build

Mounting hard disk in multiple locations

2004-06-24 Thread Alan Gerber
checked out the mount(8) series of manpages and haven't found anything. I've also thought about trying to create a separate device node for this purpose, a la mknod, but I wanted to be sure that won't do anything overly harsh to the system before I attempt it. Any thoughts or suggestions? -- Alan

Re: Recommended Motherboards for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x

2004-05-21 Thread Alan Gerber
and 4.9. The board does support ACPI satisfactorily, though. -- Alan Gerber Replied message follows Hi, personally I'm a ASUS-User. All boards i've ever used were asus except my Siemens Primergy 470 nad my Dell Latitude D600. I ran FreeBSD successfully on this boards: Asus A7M266-D, Dual-Athlon

NIC-independent watchdog timeout on 5.2.1-R

2004-03-10 Thread Alan Gerber
I'd love to move away from running WinXP on my desktop! ;-) -- Alan Gerber 0 11 12 slot 5 0 13B 0x01 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 slot 5 0 13C 0x02 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 slot 5 0 13D 0x03 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 embedded06A 0x05 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 embedded