Where can I get a nVidia driver for FBSD amd64

/showthread.php?t=82203 The problem existed since 11-28-04, needing a nVidia driver for amd64 FreeBSD. If you want to run amd64 FreeBSD please stay away with components running nVidia chipsets. Otherwise you will run into my situation as well as other folks on above sites. B.R. Stephen Liu Send

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

it. According to folks on their forum CentOS supports nVidia chipset without problem. B.R. Stephen Liu Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

--- Simon Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Liu wrote: Take a look at Slackware. http://www.slackware.com Patrick Seconded, if I got to run Linux, I run Slackware (and I have in production). If you need it there is a port of Slack to AMD64 called slamd64

Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome

Hi Armin, Tks for your advice. --- Armin Pirkovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Jonathan Chen, Tks for your advice. If you're going to use startx you will need a ${HOME}/.xinitrc with the following contents: #/bin/sh startkde Make sure

Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome

--- Armin Pirkovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Liu wrote: [...] Something strange happened here. If copying xorg.conf.new on /etc/X11/ and renaming it as xorg.conf. I can't start X, the HD only turning. Now I don't have /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I can start KDE (not Gnome

Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome - further test

--- Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Armin Pirkovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Liu wrote: [...] Something strange happened here. If copying xorg.conf.new on /etc/X11/ and renaming it as xorg.conf. I can't start X, the HD only turning. Now I don't have

Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome

Hi Armin, Tks for your advice. There are two files that control which windowsmanager shall be used (depending on whether you use a login manager or just startx) One is called .xinitrc the other one .xsession - they are both in your home directory - create them (you can create one of them

Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome

KDM instead of using startx Your advice worked here starting KDE. What I'm trying to do is running; $ startkde will start K desktop $ gnome-session will start Gnome desktop Tks. B.R. Stephen Liu Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome

Hi Jonathan, I would suggest you configure /etc/ttys to start up KDM instead of using startx I'm prepared running this box building servers for test. I don't expect the box booting straight to login page. X is only for communicating outside World. I'm not used to running elinks, the text

Fail to start KDE and Gnome

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dualcore performance-smp technology

Hi folks, FreeBSD-6.2-amd64 Pls advice how to make FreeBSD fully utinize the benefit of dualcore. In Linux I recompiled a smp-kernel then it used dualcore performance. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

Re: Command to combine several files as a single file, etc.

Hi Parv, FreeBSD 5.2 Tks for your advice. - snip - Do you want to collect a number of files in various formats in one file to be able to extract any file from the resulting collection? Or, do you want to collect information contained in different files in one single file in only one

Re: Command to combine several files as a single file, etc.

Hi Bill, Tks for your advice. Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Saving webpages from website as following files Page-1.pdf Page-2.pdf Page-3.pdf Page-4.pdf and so on There are a couple of different programs out that can do this. I found a perl script not so long ago

Problem in running htmldoc

- truncation or overlapping may occur! ERR014: Image on page 3 too large - truncation or overlapping may occur! PAGES: 3 ERR012: Unable to open output file - No such file or directory It failed. There is no mailing list/discussion forum on http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ Any advice? TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

Command to combine several files as a single file, etc.

'PaperPort', 'PageKeeper','Omnipage, etc. to do the abovementioned job. Are there similar applications on Open Source for FreeBSD/Unix/Linux worlds. TIA. B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http

Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades

-update/ and the client is in ports. Is there a way updating all installed ports automatically wheneven the server/workstation is booted and connected to Internet, similar to ntp synchronizing the clock. B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You

Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades

HI Luke, Thanks for your advice. Is there a way updating all installed ports automatically wheneven the server/workstation is booted and connected to Internet, similar to ntp synchronizing the clock. in theory it should be possible to write a script that runs portupgrade and then

Re: cvsup vs portupgrade

Hi Remko, Tks for your advice. - snip - 2) If having run # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile Whether I still need to run # portupgrade -aRr Yes you can do this, since cvsup retrieve's the latest sources for the

Re: cvsup vs portupgrade

Hi Viktor, Tks for your advice. - snip - # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile Whether I still need to run # portupgrade -aRr 3) If NO to 2) above When shall I need to run # portupgrade -aRr 4) Whether following

cvsup vs portupgrade

round Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu = Best Regards Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk ___ [EMAIL

Re: How to make a screenshot?

/ttyv3 On KDE desktop Konsole window # vidcontrol -P /dev/ttyv3 no graphic image displayed (tried both -P and -p) Besides I have to 'su' to use 'vidcontrol' B.R. Stephen Liu The .scr images can be manipulated with textproc/scr2txt and graphics/scr2png. The man pages for both describe

Problem about ports command

* pkg_delete: No match. # pkg_info | grep portupgrade portupgrade-20030723 FreeBSD ports/packages administration and management tool s It is also there. Is there a device locking all ports commands. Kindly advise how to proceed. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

How to exclude upgrading kde in running 'portupgrade'

-aRrv -x kde I don't know whether the '-x' tag will excluding upgrading kde otherwise the PC will run for several days. Any suggestion? TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http

Re: How to exclude upgrading kde in running 'portupgrade'

Hi Lowell, Tks for your advice. # portupgrade -aRrv -x kde I don't know whether the '-x' tag will excluding upgrading kde otherwise the PC will run for several days. That should work. If you want to see for sure before starting, use the -n option -- that's exactly why it exists.

Re: Seeking advice on 'ports-supfile'

Hi Adam, Tks for your advice. FreeBSD-5.2 I'm seeking for advice on 'ports-supfile' to run # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ ports-supfile the second time as at the first time there were some problems I don't quite use it this way. I use the three files located at

Problem after running portupgrade (continue)

created. Can I delete them all TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Problem after running portupgrade

Hi Chris, Tks for your advice. Look into /var/log for a list of files like this example: cron.0.bz2 maillog.1.bz2 sendmail.st.0 cron.1.bz2 maillog.2.bz2 sendmail.st.1 Note the bz2 extensions and the files that have digits at the end.

Re: Problem after running portupgrade

Hi Remko, Tks for your advice. It says to you that the var drive is full, the var drive keeps logs etc so pretty crucial that it has some space. Go to /var/log and check which files are a bit big and rotate them. You can do that by entering single user mode, mount the /var, go to

Problem after running portupgrade

G in size solely for FreeBSD 5.2 2) Where can I find 'portsclean' package 3) How to discover the cause of failure in starting Gnome 4) How to set fonts on Konsole window TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free

Re: Creating ISO image question

, 2004-05-17 at 15:19, arden wrote: im guessing this is what you mean ? mkisofs -r -J -o cd_image.iso dir/ arden On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 12:28, Stephen Liu wrote: HI folks, I tried to solve following questions on creating ISO image with reference to 'man mkisofs' but could

Install IPFILTER question

IPFILTER and/or edit kernel option to enable it. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Long filename question on burning CD

changed to 8 character max, such as ~01, ~02, etc. Is there any solution on burning CD allowing the long filename (exceeding 8 characters) can be read clearly on Windows identical to their name read on Linux/Unix Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

Correct steps to recompile kernel

to be taken thereafter? If I am wrong please correct me. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk ___ [EMAIL

Re: Correct steps to recompile kernel

Hi Bill, Tks for your advice. - snip - # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # cp GENERIC GENERIC.bak # cp GENERIC MYKERNEL # ee MYKERNEL (modifying the kernel) This is good ... although making a backup of GENERIC is somewhat redundant. Noted with thanks. But in case of trouble where can

Re: Creating ISO image question (PROBLEM SOLVED)

Hi Malcolm, Tks for your advice. You understand my need completely. Problem is now solved as stated at the bottom of this posting. I believe that in case 1) you want to see the directory usr on the final CD containing subdirectory home etc. And in instance 2) you want to see the

How to mount and read cdimage before burning

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Re: How to mount and read cdimage before burning

} option = {cluster, compress, reserve} size = %d (512 byte blocks), %dk (kB), %dm (MB) or %dg (GB) Have no idea how to proceed further. Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu attach md: # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /yourpath/your.iso # mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0

Re: How to mount and read cdimage before burning

Hi Warren, Tks for your advice. Although my problem has been solved with the assistance from folks on this list, I am interested to learn an alternative way, if any. - snip - /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html Isn't loop the compressed filesystem? In that

Re: Creating ISO image question

Hi Joe, Tks for your advice. - snip- mkisofs -o cd_image.iso flags from mkisofs man page dir/ ? Applying following command lines 1) # mkisofs -o cdimage.raw -R /usr/home/user-A/document-AAA 2) # mkisofs -R -o cdimage.raw /usr/home/user-A/document-AAA 3) # mkisofs -o cdimage.raw -R -pathspec

Creating ISO image question

the complete tree starting from /document-AAA/subdirectories Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk

Re: How to allow 'User-A' to burn CD

Hi Matthew, Tks for your advice. Which file shall I re-configure to authorize 'User-A' using 'burncd' to burn CD and how to edit it. /usr/local/etc/sudoers would be a good file to use to set up that sort of thing. Noted with thanks I only expect to allow 'User-A', not all users, to

Re: Creating ISO image question

is after burning a folder named 'Storage-040517' found on the CD under which are directories and subdirectories. B.R. Stephen On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 12:28, Stephen Liu wrote: HI folks, I tried to solve following questions on creating ISO image with reference to 'man mkisofs' but could

Re: Creating ISO image question

Hi Fernando, Tks for your advice. I tried to solve following questions on creating ISO image with reference to 'man mkisofs' but could not resolve; Take a look at /usr/share/examples/worm/makecdfs.sh It's a shell script the FreeBSD team uses for making the FreeBSD ISOs I read the

Re: Creating ISO image question

Hi Fernando, - snip - But I could not discover the 'Readme' for 'makecdfs.sh' explaining how to use it and where will this file be copied to. There isn't a readme for makecdfs.sh Just run makecdfs.sh without arguments and it'll show a help message. # makecdfs.sh makecdfs.sh: Command

How to allow 'User-A' to burn CD

Hi folks, Which file shall I re-configure to authorize 'User-A' using 'burncd' to burn CD and how to edit it. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk

Command to display the complete picture of hard drive

Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 What command will be used to display the complete history of the hard drvice (other than fdisk) listing all partitions, their allocated space, used space, available space, date of creation, etc. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive

%1791 312315% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% 0 0 100% /dev ... Why the denotation of hard drive = /dev/ad4sla, not /dev/hda, etc. B.R. Stephen On Saturday 15 May 2004 03:26 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 What command will be used to display

Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive

Hi, Tks for your advice. - snip - Why the denotation of hard drive = /dev/ad4sla, not /dev/hda, etc. Because afaik, /dev/hda is a Linuxism. The /dev/ad2s1a convention has been there long before Linux was even conceived of. I suppose '/dev/ad2sla' with the HD connected to the IDE

Files burned on CDRW could not be copied on Liunx box

to mount the CDRW as root as well as user with the same result. Kindly advise is there any solution? Beside how to authorized 'user-A' to burn CD TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http

ICQ question

/kxicq.html can the tarballs there works for FreeBSD TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ICQ question

Hi Nelis, Has any folk run 'Kxicq' on FreeBSD before. Can I talk to my friend if he runs MSN on Windows? If NO kindly advise what will be the solution. you may want to try Gaim http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ for MSN support and others. /usr/ports/net/gaim Hi Nelis, FreeBSD 5.2

Re: ICQ question

Hi Phil, FreeBSD 5.2 === Tks for your advice. you may want to try Gaim http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ for MSN support and others. Either install gabber (from ports/net) and find an MSN transport on it, or install ayttm (also from ports/net). # pkg_info | grep gabber # pkg_info

Re: First time running cvsup

Hi Ion, Tks for your advice. Freebsd5.2 - snip - I use 3 cvsup files: one fot the ports, one for the docs and one for the system (src). This way I can update ports and docs more often and be sure the system had known-to-be-working sources (I'm on -CURRENT). Noted with tks My

First time running cvsup

('release=cvs' ???) cvsroot-all ('release=cvs' ???) ports-all ('release=cvs' ???) . then # cvsup supfile Is it necessary to run following trial test ??? # mkdir /var/tmp/dest # cvsup supfile /var/tmp/dest I could not locate /usr/ports/UPDATING where it is kept??? TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

Installing linuxpluginwrapper

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Which package generating libesd.so.2

Hi folks, Starting GNOME on Konsole window, following warning popup $ gnome-session /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libesd.so.2 not found $ find / libesd.so.2 find: libesd.so.2: No such file or directory Kindly advise which package generates 'libesd.so.2' TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

Re: Which package generating libesd.so.2

Hi Christian, Starting GNOME on Konsole window, following warning popup $ gnome-session /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libesd.so.2 not found $ find / libesd.so.2 find: libesd.so.2: No such file or directory Kindly advise which package generates 'libesd.so.2'

Re: Starting Gnome problem

Hi Uli, $ gnome-session /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Share object libORBit-2.so.0 not found My liORBit-2.so.0 is in /usr/local/lib . You can try to search your directory tree for yours and create a symbolic link to this place: # ln -s /whereIt/reallyIs/libORBit-2.so.0

Re: Starting Gnome problem

Hi Joe, - snip - It is very strange. The file is already there, plus one symbolic link # locate libORBit-2.so.0 /usr/local/lib/libORBit-2.so.0 # ls -al /usr/local/lib/ | grep -i libORBit-2.so.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 May 3 10:23 libORBit-2.so - libORBit-2.so.0

Re: Starting Gnome problem

Hi Joe, - snip - # ldconfig -r | head /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints: search directories: /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/compat:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/kde3 0:-lcrypt.2 = /lib/libcrypt.so.2 1:-lkvm.2 = /lib/libkvm.so.2 2:-lm.2 = /lib/libm.so.2

Re: Starting Gnome problem

Hi Uli, Tks for your response. Following warning popup; /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Share object libORBit-2.so.0 not found This one should be present in /usr/local/lib . But, as I have to admit, I am no gnome expert. Try their mailing list. I am quite sure your upgrade didn't work

Re: Open Office - installation problem

- snip - see what's happening, and install the darned thing. # pkg_add OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz pkg_add: could not find package ORBit-0.5.17_2 ! Now another problem comes on installing RRBit-0.5.17_2 as follow; # cd /usr/ports/ # make clean (first)

Re: Open Office - installation problem

- snip - No. It's a package, and it's *not* a tgz file. Errr... folks -- packages *are* .tgz files. Except under 5.x where they are .tbz files. They could just as well be .zip files, or some sort of compressed cpio format like .rpms or Solaris packages. It's just a mechanism for

Re: Open Office - installation problem

Hi Matthew, Tks for your advice. Can I use 'zxvf' to untar the packages and do 'setup' to install OOo, the normal way not FreeBSD way? No -- in this case the files being referred to are in fact FreeBSD pkg's. You can certainly extract the contents using 'tar -zxvf', but it won't

Open Office - installation problem

Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I encountered following problem on installing OOo OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz was download to /usr/home/user/Download $ cd /usr/home/user/Download/ checked md5 OK $ ls -al ... -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 73105915 Apr 17 18:11

Re: Open Office - installation problem

Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hkOpenOffice.org 1.1.1 RC3 for FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE Written by NAKATA, Maho [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) Introduction This document describes

Re: Open Office - installation problem

--- Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi $ su - password You are in /root now. If you use su instead of su -, you will stay in the current directory. # pkg_add OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz pkg_add: can't stat package file

Re: Open Office - installation problem

[2004-04-24 08:32]: On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 08:27:28PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I encountered following problem on installing OOo OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz was download to /usr/home/user/Download It's not a package, it's

How to config CDRom to read udf files

/dev/acd0 /usr/home/user/cdrom mount: /dev/acd0: Permission denied All failed. $ kldstat -v | grep udf 10 1 0xc43e7000 6000 udf.ko 333 udf $ ls /boot/kernel/ | grep udf udf.ko udf_iconv.ko the module seems there. Kindly advise how to fix it. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

Re: Help - where to report posting problem

create one for you. On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, [iso-8859-1] Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I make this second subscription to this list solely seeking advice where to report problem. I am currently subscribing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with email address :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I am

Re: Backing up my system

Hi Bill, - snip - You can use dump/tar to back up the actual data. I also apply 'tar' command to backup actual data keeping the directory tree simultaneously. Kindly advise what is 'dump/tar' B.R. Stephen - snip - Then, if you needed to restore/rebuild from scratch, you could boot a CD

Re: Backing up my system

Hi Kevin, Tks for your advice. I seldomly use 'dump' command, mostly 'tar' What will be 'dump vs tar' ?. Their pros and cons. TIA B.R. Stephen = Best Regards Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free

Help - where to report posting problem

. I made report on posting problem to - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (postmaster) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (postmaster) all emails were either rejected or received no reply. Kindly advise where can I seek assistance. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu Remarks: This problem has

Re: Help - where to report posting problem

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Re: Help - where to report posting problem

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Re: The clock is running too fast

] Behalf Of Stephen Liu Sent: March 18, 2004 21:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The clock is running too fast Hi folks, AMD CUP FreeBSD 5.2 The clock on KDE desktop is running on double speed compelling me to adjust it periodically. Kindly advise how to fix this problem. TIA B.R

Re: The clock is running too fast

frequency 350796390 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec What are their difference in function between i8254/ACPI-safe/TSC B.R. Stephen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Liu Sent: March 19, 2004 01:12 To: [EMAIL

The clock is running too fast

Hi folks, AMD CUP FreeBSD 5.2 The clock on KDE desktop is running on double speed compelling me to adjust it periodically. Kindly advise how to fix this problem. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: The clock is running too fast

will be the compensation. B.R. Stephen At 08:46 PM 3/18/2004, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, AMD CUP FreeBSD 5.2 The clock on KDE desktop is running on double speed compelling me to adjust it periodically. Kindly advise how to fix this problem. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

How to avoid booting PC to reconnect broadband

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How to avoid booting PC to reconnect broadband

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Re: Permission problem

On Tuesday 16 March 2004 17:04, Frank Mueller wrote: The Prob is that your devices are rebuild by devfs at boot time. So set the following in file /etc/devfs.conf (create if necessary): perm fd0 0660 and your permissions will be kept after reboot. Hi Frank, Tks for your advice. Problem

Format floppy problem

$ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /usr/home/user/floppy msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument I tested 3 floppies with the same result. Kindly advise how to fix this problem. Is there a special format floppy command for FreeBSD. TIA Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL

Re: Format floppy problem

On Wednesday 17 March 2004 00:40, Terry L. Tyson Jr. wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:21:34AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: FreeBSD 5.2 == Floppies formatted on M$Win can be mounted, copied files to and read, etc. But floppies formatted on FreeBSD with $ fdformat /dev/fd0

Re: Format floppy problem

- snip - $ fdformat /dev/fd0 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y Processing done. they could not be mounted $ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /usr/home/user/floppy msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument I tested 3 floppies with the

Problme on installing /usr/ports/sysutils

: *** [config.status] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gdk-pixbuf. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/acidlaunch. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils.[/code] Kindly advise how to fix the problems. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

Permission problem

Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 # chmod 660 /dev/fd0 then user can use floppy drive. But rebooting PC will cancel user's permission. Kindly advise how to create a permanent permission TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

will be difference between './ $remote:$directory' and '$remote:$directory/' TIA B.R. Stephen Liu Better yet, set up the directories in the rsyncd.conf files on each machine: cd $directory rsync -vaurP ./ ${remote}::dir_module/ rsync -vaurP ${remote}::dir_module/ . Bill

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

- snip - Is the option -P --partial -- progress means 'incremental'??? -P is the same as specifying both --partial and --progress. --progress means to show a progress meter. Normally, if you interrupt rsync while it is transferring a file, rsync will delete the partially

Re: MAKEDEV question

- snip - After reboot # dmesg Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 690C MLC,PCL,PML plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 # ls -l /dev/lpt0 crw--- 1 root

Re: A question on installing printer

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 01:21, Lowell Gilbert wrote: - snip - # lptest /dev/lpt0   One line printed on 1st page as follow; !#$%'()* +,-./0123456789:;=[EMAIL PROTECTED]   It seemed OK but paper feed-in continued with 'no_paper' light on (I put only 1 paper in the tray)

Howto for

Hi folks, Where can I find a Howto for mgetty+sendfax other than follow; http://www.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/mgetty_toc.html TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: MAKEDEV question

- snip - I skipped following steps 1) # ./MAKEDEV port and 2) # lptcontrol -i -d /dev/lpt0 (to set interrupt-driven mode for lpt0) and 3) # lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0 (to set polled-mode for lptN) Jumped to; # lptest /dev/lpt0 only strange symbols printed

Re: A question on installing printer

- snip - According to handbook I should run # ./MAKEDEV lpt0 (para port) whether to be replaced with # ./devfs -m lpt0 No, devfs should recognize the device on its own, without your having to do anything. Is there a /dev/lpt0 already? Also, see man devfs. Hi Lowell, Tks for

Re: picture?

/files/patch-src::wdm::session.c /usr/ports/x11/wdm/files/wdm.pam /usr/ports/x11/wdm/pkg-descr /usr/ports/x11/wdm/pkg-plist Kindly advise where the picture can be located. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: picture?

- snip - $ locate wdm | grep port /usr/ports/net/cflowd/files/patch-apps::cflowdmux::CflowdRawFlowClientLis t.hh /usr/ports/x11/wdm /usr/ports/x11/wdm/Makefile /usr/ports/x11/wdm/README.html /usr/ports/x11/wdm/distinfo /usr/ports/x11/wdm/files

Re: Fax software question

- snip - # which acfax # which acfax # which efax # which gfax # which ghfaxview # which hylafx # which tkhylafax # which tkscanfax t# which viewfax all : Command not found. I suppose they have not been installed. Kindly advise which of them is easy to config and

A question on installing printer

Hi all folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I am now configuring printer and aware that 'MAKEDEV' has been replaced with 'devfs' According to handbook I should run # ./MAKEDEV lpt0 (para port) whether to be replaced with # ./devfs -m lpt0 Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

Re: Fax software question

On Sunday 07 March 2004 22:08, Dan Pelleg wrote: - snip - I think I need to install 'mgetty-1.1.30.12.16_3'. Shall I install 'netpbm-10.17_1' as well. Yes. Do it in one of the following ways: 1. cd /usr/ports/comms/mgetty+sendfax make install clean cd /usr/ports/graphics/netpbm

MAKEDEV question

Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I am now configuring printer and aware that 'MAKEDEV' has been replaced with 'devfs' According to handbook I should run # ./MAKEDEV lpt0 (para port) whether to be replaced with # ./devfs -m lpt0 Kindly advise. TIA B.R. satimis

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