Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie

2006-02-28 Thread ivan . roth
Sorry, I forgot to cc this mail to the list and only send the answer to Matthias. Hi, Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? I've looked

Re: 10 years of The Complete FreeBSD

2006-02-25 Thread ivan . roth
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, Installing and Using FreeBSD. It was later renamed to The Complete FreeBSD. I have always retained full rights to the book, and for today I've

Re: How to install x-windows in freeBSD

2006-01-18 Thread ivan . roth
Hi Anirban, This is not your first post here but I can't understand how you can ask for such information. However, I am not the police and I found something, very miraculous for you. But please when you need informations, have a look to the handbook and on Google. We won't work for you.

RE: trouble installing new printer

2006-01-18 Thread ivan . roth
Hi Ted, don't worry about what your mail sounds, it is ok :) You're right on every points. I do not need to print so much. In fact, I am translating the printing chapter of the handbook to french and I just wanted to test the parallel interface. I bought this printer for 70$ (approx.). In fact,

Re: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

2006-01-18 Thread ivan . roth
Wekk op n smehl da Kaffe, dood! Effn ah kaint reed et, how dew ah no et aint L kadeh plennen to rep muh guhrl? bee jes lahk duh bestads ta yoose Politch! -LenZ- C'est du Klingon ?? -- ivan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

loosing hair inside canon printer...

2006-01-18 Thread ivan . roth
Hi, Thanks all first, for the help you gave me yesterday. I begin hating Canon. Still nothing printed. I am going to gathered all information about what I did and hope you could give me something :) For the moment, I only want to be able to print the more disgusting raw text, even only hello

again canon printer trouble

2006-01-18 Thread ivan . roth
Ok, two short questions. -Is someone able to translate this for me (seems to be Czech)? http://www.abclinuxu.cz/hardware/show/65412;jsessionid=10vmgmw8u8l16 -May my problem be due to acpi in any way? I don't know acpi either. But may try something like debug.acpi.disabled=isa in

Re: loosing hair inside canon printer...

2006-01-18 Thread ivan . roth
Chris Hill wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This said, I have this in dmesg: [snip] Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: Canon i865/1.13 PRINTER BJL,BJRaster3,BSCCe [snip] simple question: how freebsd know about the name of my printer? I imagine FreeBSD

Re: again canon printer trouble

2006-01-18 Thread ivan . roth
Michal Mertl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, two short questions. -Is someone able to translate this for me (seems to be Czech)? http://www.abclinuxu.cz/hardware/show/65412;jsessionid=10vmgmw8u8l16 -May my problem be due to acpi in any way? I don't know acpi either. But may try something

Re: Setting up lpd on *BSD

2006-01-17 Thread ivan . roth
Quoting Jon Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 1/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jon, First thank you for your reply (same thank to Lowell Gilbert). I tried to change the mode with lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0 but that is even worth because I have no more output at all! Yes - I

the new 2 in 1 shampoo (compression of english only please and what is the best between tux and beastie)

2006-01-17 Thread ivan . roth
Allright, sorry for that post. (cut here)-- - Gary, tu veux des lecons de francais ? (you want french lessons) :) - I am reading this ML for a few months now and it is (if I remember) the third freebsd vs linux discussion. Now imagine I just want all of

trouble installing new printer

2006-01-16 Thread ivan . roth
Hi all, my previous (and still unanswered) message was: --- Hi, I just bought a Canon i865 yesterday. This is my first printer install on FreeBSD. I, of course, followed the steps described in the handbook. But when running the really simple 'lptest

(no subject)

2006-01-16 Thread ivan . roth
Hi Jon, First thank you for your reply (same thank to Lowell Gilbert). I tried to change the mode with lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0 but that is even worth because I have no more output at all! I am a bit lost between all the confguration files now. CUPS, apsfilter and friends is too much in one

trouble installing new printer

2006-01-14 Thread ivan . roth
Hi, I just bought a Canon i865 yesterday. This is my first printer install on FreeBSD. I, of course, followed the steps described in the handbook. But when running the really simple 'lptest /dev/lpt0' command, nothing happened, excepted the flashing light on the printer. The flashing time is

Re: Xorg - how to disable some video modes?

2006-01-10 Thread ivan . roth
Quoting Martin Möller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * User Gandalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] [07-01-2006 23:21:08 +0100]: section. But I was not able to disable 1920x1440, 1600x1200 and 1280x1024. What I do know is that I go to the control panel of xfce each time and switch back to 1024x768 manually. Take a

Re: Xorg - how to disable some video modes?

2006-01-10 Thread ivan . roth
Quoting User Gandalf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Martin Möller wrote: * gandalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08-01-2006 10:29:18 +0100]: I can attach my xorg.conf file, if it helps. Yes, that would help indeed. Here is the config. I made a mistake. You were right. I forgot to use DefaultDepth. But I do

Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-19 Thread ivan . roth
Thomas Linton wrote: (already Cc to him) My USB stick works fine, but I can't figure out how to safty unplug the USB stick. The LED on my stick is always on; if i try camcontrol stop da0 or camcontrol eject da0 it stays on. Under Linux the eject command turns the LED (Power) off.

Re: unmounting USB key (sorry, lost the original title)

2005-12-19 Thread ivan . roth
Hi, I can't remember who posted that and I removed my emails from server. I try to eject my USB key using cmacontrol and I got this: # camcontrol devlist Corsair Flash Voyager 1.00 at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0) # camcontrol eject 1:0:0 Unit stopped successfully, Media ejected

Re: releng for 6

2005-12-04 Thread ivan . roth
eoghan wrote: Hi Im going to upgrade to 6, I was wondering if someone could tell me the RELENG for 6, for my supfile? Should it be tag=RELENG_6_0? Thanks Eoghan yes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: flashplayer plugin on firefox

2005-11-28 Thread ivan . roth
You will find the help you need there (search for flash in the pages, look at the first occurence) : http://forum.hardware.fr/hardwarefr/OSAlternatifs/Topic-FreeBSD-FreeBSD-released-sujet-53327-1.htm short translation from french to english: Macromedia does not give any flash plugin for

about /usr/src/etc

2005-11-26 Thread ivan . roth
Hi, I am unable to locate this folder (/usr/src/etc). I mean, it does not exist. I only have sys under /usr/src I also have no more man page but the one associated with newly compiled/installed softwares. May it be the same issue ? Thanks, Ivan. ___

Re: about /usr/src/etc

2005-11-26 Thread ivan . roth
On Saturday 26 November 2005 13:41, RW wrote: On Saturday 26 November 2005 12:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to locate this folder (/usr/src/etc). I mean, it does not exist. I only have sys under /usr/src You only have the kernel source, not the world source. Try

Trouble installing fvwm2

2005-11-23 Thread ivan . roth
Hi, I just compiled/installed fvwm2 from ports on my 6.0. But I don't know how to run it. I have gdm launching gnome 2.12 by default and fvwm2 does not appear in the list in gdm. I am such a newbie, that I can't imagine you don't know what's wrong :) Thanks by advance. Regards, Ivan.

whereis man pages ?

2005-11-20 Thread ivan . roth
Hi all, Bad news at wake up. I needed a man pages as a normal wheel group's user and get no manual entry for I tried to get man page from the root account but same result. No more man page available (even man man). Any idea ? Thanks, Ivan. ___

Re: whereis man pages ?

2005-11-20 Thread ivan . roth
Quoting Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 11:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Bad news at wake up. I needed a man pages as a normal wheel group's user and get no manual entry for I tried to get man page from the root account but same result. No more man page

Re: looking for cd2mp3

2005-11-20 Thread ivan . roth
it? I assume you've googled for it but come up empty, as I did. Is there something else that might do what you want? Perhaps cdda2wav plus lame? HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] -- Ivan Roth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), quite newbie

Information about handbook translation

2005-11-18 Thread ivan . roth
Hi, I just subscribed to that list so nice to meet you :) I am quite new to the FreeBSD world but I would like to help the community by doing the only thing I think I am capable of: translating. My language is french so please contact me and give me some pages to translate. I feel too lazy for

Xorg trouble with nvidia graphic card

2005-11-18 Thread ivan . Roth
First, sorry about asking two questions at the same time. I am using freeBSD 6.0 under Gnome 2.10 and I am having trouble with display resolution. I got the same issue under many Linux distributions I tried last month (including FC4, Debian an Suse 10.0). The issue is that display is like full

Re: Xorg trouble with nvidia graphic card

2005-11-18 Thread ivan . roth
Hi Lowell, No more problem. As I am testing many OS I spent my afternoon reinstalling FreeBSD 6.0 :) I upgraded all my ports/sources and installed the latest nvidia driver (7676). I still don't know why but everything is fine now [I'm afraid I should have made a mistake (sic)] However, thanks