Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Joseph Vella
On Sunday 23 April 2006 19:35, Eric Schuele wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:02:53 -0500 Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have GDM installed and working. I *do not* have gnome installed. I was hoping GDM would do as XDM and just run my .xsession. But it

Re: ftp server

2006-04-23 Thread Joseph Vella
On Sunday 23 April 2006 21:19, Lawrence Horvath wrote: I cant even get to ftp://ftp.csua.berleley.edu/pub digging ftp.csua.berleley.edu results in null, so does digging csua.berleley.edu you may want to try a different mirror On 4/23/06, Bret Esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-11 Thread Joseph Vella
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 06:47, Eric Schuele wrote: [Hoping this isn't too OT for the list] So... now that www/linux-flashplugin* are gone, I was hoping to get opinions on which alternative flashplayer(s) are reasonably good. I use firefox and would prefer a plugin for it... but am

Re: flash plugins question

2006-04-01 Thread Joseph Vella
On Saturday 01 April 2006 09:44, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On April 2, 2006 12:51:59 AM +0800 Marlon Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linuxpluginwrapper is installed from ports, and linux-flashplugin7 after that i copy libmap.conf-FreeBSD6

Why are so many people using 4.x?

2006-03-28 Thread Joseph Vella
I notice a lot of references to version 4.x. Is there any overwhelming reason why its use seems to be still popular. I'm wanting to set up a server (just for play) on my home network using a PII machine. Am I better off using an older version for such old equipment? If so, do any particular

Re: what is going on??

2006-03-24 Thread Joseph Vella
On Friday 24 March 2006 16:47, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:10:04AM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote: last night i took down my fedora sever to migrate it to freebsd 6.0. ive done numerous tests on dev boxes in the past weeks getting ready for this event, and they were all

change 2nd boot menu

2006-03-21 Thread Joseph Vella
I use grub, after that menu there is a FreeBSD menu with options for single user mode, safe mode, kernal loader, etc... Is there a way to eliminate the FreesBSD menu and move those options to the grub menu? (actually I only want a couple of those options, like safe mode, single user mode and

Re: TFT monitors and Xorg

2006-03-15 Thread Joseph Vella
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 07:06, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Joseph Vella wrote: I think the most significant hardware upgrade I've done in 15 years was the widescreen display. Being able to have two windows open side by side is a whole new world. This is what I have, right now it's

Re: dd - cloning a disk.

2006-03-11 Thread Joseph Vella
On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:43, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you: If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely operational fully setup FreeBSD with all the trimmings, and the other blank, or perhaps

Re: TFT monitors and Xorg

2006-03-10 Thread Joseph Vella
On Friday 10 March 2006 09:57, dick hoogendijk wrote: Hello, Probably a stupid question, but I'll take my chances. For years now I only used normal monitors on windows, linux, FreeBSD but soon I'll get a Samsung 930BF TFT screen. What I'd like to know is, if Xorg is capable of seeing this

Re: Open Source and 3rd world countries

2006-03-09 Thread Joseph Vella
On Thursday 09 March 2006 18:11, Olivier Nicole wrote: Sorry Nicole, but here in Brazil our government does not use pirated software, and yes, they're changing to Open Source. That only means Brazil is not much a 3rd world country anymore... guess this may be coming to an end, or not

Re: Flash Player

2006-03-07 Thread Joseph Vella
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:22, Chris Maness wrote: Joseph Vella wrote: On Monday 06 March 2006 22:34, Duane Whitty wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 01:42, Chris I installed these ports. Is there anything I need to do to the browser to get it to recognize them, because flash

Re: Flash Player

2006-03-06 Thread Joseph Vella
On Monday 06 March 2006 22:34, Duane Whitty wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 01:42, Chris I installed these ports. Is there anything I need to do to the browser to get it to recognize them, because flash is still not working. Sorry, I forgot to mention that for firefox you want to

Re: Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

2006-03-02 Thread Joseph Vella
On Thursday 02 March 2006 21:37, Vayu wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 15:57, Micah wrote: I'm looking for a card to handle some simple OpenGL stuff for a class I'm taking. I have an ATI X300 card, but 3D acceleration is not supported on it in the current Xorg. The only slots on my Mobo

Re: Getting current BSD version information

2006-02-26 Thread Joseph Vella
On Sunday 26 February 2006 1:32 pm, David Pratt wrote: Is there a command to obtain ther current version of FreeBSD in use. I have a virtual server that the host upgrades from time to time so this information would be helpful. ___

I've got spyware!!??

2006-02-23 Thread Joseph Vella
I just installed flash in Firefox. I was playing around with the autoscrolling feature, when all of a sudden some ugly website pops up. It was something I clicked with the mouse wheel. I tried it again and sure enough the same site pops up. It was kind of tricky to do. I had to be

Re: Why did this work? (Flashplugin)

2006-02-23 Thread Joseph Vella
On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:09 am, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 2/23/06, Vayu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed linuxpluginwrapper, linux-flashplugin-6 and linux_base-8 through ports. No errors. Created a libmap.conf with values appropriate for 6.0REL. I followed the same

Re: I've got spyware!!??

2006-02-23 Thread Joseph Vella
On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:43, Dave McCammon wrote: --- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 23, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Joseph Vella wrote: autoscrolling feature, when all of a sudden some ugly website pops up. It was something I clicked with the mouse wheel. I

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1 port

2006-02-17 Thread Joseph Vella
Hello, I have installed the firefox 1.5.0.1 browser port -- the latest version -- but everytime uses the pc speaker and I get a constant beep!, beep!, beep!. Anyone knows the solution to this problem?. I've searched in preferences and about:config url, but nothing seems to be

Re: A strategic question

2006-01-27 Thread Joseph Vella
On Friday 27 January 2006 06:16 pm, Jozef Baum wrote: This posting doesn't contain a technical question about FreeBSD, rather a strategic one. I did my first time ever install of FreeBSD 1 week ago. My background is M$ from DOS 2.something till XP. About 2 months ago I tried my first Linux

Questions on SMP and 64 bit

2006-01-26 Thread Joseph Vella
I'm buying a new computer, and am thinking of the new dual core AMD X2. I'm not sure I want to run 64 bit kernel yet, because of driver support and things like flash, and video, etc.. Will this processor still be as fast as a 32 bit if I use i386 kernel? Do I have to use a SMP kernel? Is

Why did symlinks fix libgmodule-2.0.so.600 not found error?

2006-01-24 Thread Joseph Vella
I tried to install firefox from ports. It didn't work, and after that kscd (a KDE cd player) stopped working. Kscd would complain libgmodule-2.0.so.600 not found. Some searching led me to creating sysmlinks from libmodule-2.0.so.0 to it. Then kscd complained about libgthread-2.0.so.600.

What'a a stale dependancy and how to fix?

2006-01-24 Thread Joseph Vella
portupgrade -a told me to do pkgdb -F. pkgdb -F asked me what to do with stale dependancies and I didn't know what to do. What should I do? Most of these are the same items that my attempts at a firefox install hangs up at. Below is the dialog: Prajipati-FreeBSD# portupgrade -a [Rebuilding

Re: No openGL, glxgears, glxinfo - libm.so.3 not found

2006-01-21 Thread Joseph Vella
That did it, thanks much. Joseph On Saturday 21 January 2006 12:33 am, Uwe Laverenz wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:07:46PM -0800, Joseph Vella wrote: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.3 not found, required by libGL.so.1 You have to install misc/compat5x from ports and add

install help? make: don't know how to make package-depends-list. Stop

2006-01-21 Thread Joseph Vella
I tried to install bluefish. I might have made a mess. I first downloaded the package from the freebsd ftp site. I did pkg_add. It complained about cairo and weblint. So I downloaded those. pkg_add installed but with errors. Then when I tried to run it, it had incompatible libraries

Re: Post install help

2006-01-20 Thread Joseph Vella
Thanks all for your help. I've got the nVidia driver and the SoundBlaster Driver installed and working. I've gone past the permission problem with the cd player in KDE. Joseph Vella ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

ports and packages errors

2006-01-20 Thread Joseph Vella
I keep getting errors in trying to install packages and ports. As an example when I try to get linuxpluginwrapper in ports I see it trying to fetch some items and not finding them. It seems like it trys in several places (but I'm not sure if it's just going on to the next item). It finally

No openGL, glxgears, glxinfo - libm.so.3 not found

2006-01-20 Thread Joseph Vella
OpenGL apps won't run. glxgears and glxinfo give me the same error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.3 not found, required by libGL.so.1 I have the nVidia driver, I have renderaccel set to true in xorg.conf. Transparancy and shadows work in KDE with no performance issues. Any ideas