Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)
Quoth Nikolas Britton on Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 14:58:34 -0500 We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. It is not a problem but a marketing decision we know nothing about. I have seen Linux drivers, Windows drivers and Mac drivers from their site. I am sure that if we asked in a reasonable and polite fashion we could convince them to release the drivers for *BSD -- or make the Linux ones in such a way that they work on *BSD. Hounding them is not going to help. It will harm our cause. Give him your two cents. Please, do not do that. It will hinder. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 pgpNZdhWWBTeR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)
Quoth Sean Bryant on Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:55:20 -0400 Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that. It might be the fact that I have a PCI express card. But the vesa driver is working just fine for me. I tried to get a vesa working with a Radeon X1900 and the screen resolution is rather poor. I certainly cannot seem to get it at 1600x1200 which is what I am used to. See my previous post if you think you can improve on that. I can live without fancy GL screen savers but having a tiny screen is rather irritating. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 pgpqkGO6fW708.pgp Description: PGP signature
X11 and Radeon 9700 card.
I am getting a Radeon 9700 and know that it is supporte by X11 (from their web page) but wanted to ask if there was anything to watch out for with it? Is there anyone who has this card and would be willing to share their Xfree86 config file? Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus NNGS: nick kierun, server nngs.cosmic.org, port 9696. msg12175/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Wheelmouse
Quoth Wayne Swart on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 16:07:46 +0200 i got like a generic type wheelmouse, and is running fbsd 4.7 how do you get the wheel to work? i checked google, but was unseccessfull?!?! Add the following instead of the same named section in your /etc/X11/XF86COnfig: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol Auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Then compile rxvt with --with-mousewheel et voilas. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus NNGS: nick kierun, server nngs.cosmic.org, port 9696. msg12188/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Dual Athlon MX install.
I'm looking for informations on installing FreeBSD on a dual Athlon MX machine. It's to be a research machine so will run intensive code -- NS and other modeling tools. I'm looking at things like: Which of 4.7, -STABLE, -CURRENT should I use? What are the things I need to keep in mind while installing? What are the pitfalls that I may fall into? Any advice? Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus NNGS: nick kierun, server nngs.cosmic.org, port 9696. msg11757/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY
Quoth Adrian Penisoara on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 13:17:17 +0200 But I have Bash as the default shell. And yes, it works changing the Terminal / Keyboard / Backspace key from Contrl-? (127) to Control-H, but the users are pissed off by the fact that Linux doesn't need this -- does it mean FreeBSD has broken termcap entries or that Linux is just stepping on the traditional standards ? How about just adding this mapping in the global .bashrc and in .[t]cshrc in your FreeBSD box. It's not that hard and will be totaly transparent to your users since thier .*rc file should source the global one first. The same things used to happen between terminal on X11 on Linux. Eterm was notoriouse for it a few years ago. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus NNGS: nick kierun, server nngs.cosmic.org, port 9696. msg11624/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re:
Quoth Jeff MacDonald on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:59:46 -0500 Step by step in all honesty remove sendmail Agreed. install postfix or qmail enjoy Or exim. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus NNGS: nick kierun, server nngs.cosmic.org, port 9696. msg11021/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sendmail
Quoth Peter Jamrisko on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 18:08:28 +0100 OK Boys, But I assume it must working with sendmail and then can I install another MTA. Sendmail has a horrendouse configuration file that takes years to understand much less change. Other MTAs such as Exim, Postfix and Qmail are better designed and have clearer configuratin files. Have a look at all three (www.exim.org, www.postfix.org, www.qmail.org) and get the one that you like best. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus NNGS: nick kierun, server nngs.cosmic.org, port 9696. msg11052/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]
Quoth Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 15:58:03 +0200
This very spammer has hit the lists more than once, and every time I
mailed {abuse|postmaster} at a2000.nl. If they receive a few hundred
messages for each spam message they let through they will certainly
start acting fast :-)
Would it be possible for the owners of the lsit to install something
like SpamAssassin so that those messages actually don't get to us?
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keyboard mappings in X11
I have a logitech i touch keyboard and would like to know if it is possible to have all those useless keys at the top of the keyboard (media control and co) actually maped to something usefull. Has anyone already done something like that? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus NNGS: nick kierun, server nngs.cosmic.org, port 9696. msg09334/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
/usr/home encryption.
Is there a simple and efficent way to encrypt /usr/home so that only the user can read his own directory? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus NNGS: nick kierun, server nngs.cosmic.org, port 9696. msg06823/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xfree 4.x.x and Intel i810 revisited
Quoth Ronnie Clark on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:13:29 -0700 A few weeks ago, there was a thread of someone trying to get X working with the i810 cheipset. Did this ever get resolved? If so, could someone send me the final entry in the thread? Or point me to the archived thread somewhere? Or, if you happen to know what steps to take to get this to work, that would really be appreciated. (and the preferred solution) :) NOt sure if that will help but I got my laptop (Sony Viao R505el series) to work with the altest cvs of XFree86 and some kernel patches. I've got a howto from my web page. See if that works... it may. Good luck. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus NNGS: nick kierun, server nngs.cosmic.org, port 9696. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mail client preferred?
Quoth Cliff Sarginson on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 13:10:07 +0200 My mail combination is MTA = Postfix, MDA = procmail, MUA = Mutt, Spam catcher = Spamassassin. It works well except I hate procmail beyone rationality, but the setup works well. Have a look at Exim (www.exim.org) as it has a very good filter capability -- similar to procmail, but far more powerfull and cleanly written. You'll have to replace postfix as Exim is an MTA but that is worth doing IMNSHO. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: www.kierun.org/pgp/key-kierun PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Exim as an alternative MTA in FreeBSD.
Quoth Andre Hall on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:47:28 -0700 OK, I'm just curious. I've heard many reasons for replacing Sendmail but have never heard a valid reason for someone replacing Postfix with yet another MTA. I'm patial to the ease of use and security of Postfix but Exim over Postfix? What does it do that Postfix can't? According to a technical book about Postfix I've purchased and the slew of support sites I've visited Postfix is a worthy alternative. While I am not an expert in either Sendmail or Postfix, I have done quiet a lot of work with Exim including working on the largest mail system in Europe which oddly enough runs Exim. The main reasons that I would recomand Exim are that the configuration file is easy to read and understand. It has a very detailed and clear documentation. It is highly configurable with inclusion of filter files, external programes (spamassassin and exiscan for example), databases, SSL, and the usual MTA jobs such as virtual domains and the like. It is extermly secure and well designed. I would certainly recomand it over Sendmail which is confusing, unsecrure and very unfelxible. I would as well recomand it over Qmail which is cryptic at best and does not scale as well. As for Postfix, i have never ran a system with it but have investigated it as a replacement for Exim on the system I was running and decided against it as it was not suited to what I was doing. However, I found it a decent MTA. To learn more, there is the Exim site: www.exim.org which has a short introduction to it. Well worth the ten minutes it will take you to read it if you are intrested in mail administration. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: www.kierun.org/pgp/key-kierun PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Xine and .AVI files.
I am getting the following erros while trying to view an AVI file with the lastest port of Xine. Does anyone know what the problem is? xine_play: xine open /cdrom/01___THE.AVI, start pos = 0, start time = 0 (sec) demux_elem: stop...ignored xine: using input plugin file for this MRL (/cdrom/01___THE.AVI). using input plugin 'file' for MRL '/cdrom/01___THE.AVI' demux_avi: input capabilities = 649 demux_avi: 43486 frames system layer format 'AVI' detected. demux_avi: video format = divx demux_avi: video frame size 512 x 384 demux_avi: audio format[0] = 0x55 demux_avi: audio type MPEG layer 2/3 (wFormatTag 0x55) demux_avi: start pos is 0, start time is 0 demux_avi: video codec is 'DivX 5 format' xine: set_speed 4 xine_stop xine_stop: stopping demuxer video_out: freeing frame backup libmpeg2: blasting out current frame on close metronom: video discontinuity #12, type is 0, disc_off is 0 video_decoder: new pts 0 metronom: video discontinuity #13, type is 3, disc_off is 0 video_decoder: using decoder ffmpeg video decoder using video decoder plugin 'ffmpeg video decoder' yuv2rgb: using generic scale_line with interpolation ffmpeg: error decompressing frame [repeated lots] 200 frames delivered, 178 frames skipped, 0 frames discarded [...] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: www.kierun.org/pgp/key-kierun PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
jpilot, usb and palm m505.
I cannot seem to get my Palm m505 to sync on my desctop whci is running -STABLE and jpilot with pilot-link0.11.4 installed. The error of jpilot is: *** Syncing on device /dev/uhub0 - this was changed to /dev/ugen0 as well. Press the HotSync button now pi_bind No such file or directory Check your serial port and settings exiting with status -10 dmesg gives: usb0: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 usb1: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 And when the sync button is pressed, /var/log/messages gives: Oct 2 22:31:08 anubis /kernel: ugen0: Palm, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2 Oct 2 22:32:13 anubis /kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 2) disconnected Oct 2 22:32:13 anubis /kernel: ugen0: detached Any idea of what I am missing? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: www.kierun.org/pgp/key-kierun PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Configuring XFree86 - not working...
Quoth MET on Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:38:23 -0400 Any how, I'm attempting to the Handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html ): # XFree86 -configure # XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config.new The simplest way to install XFree86 is from /stand/sysinstall following things either in full graphical mode, ncurses mode or text mode. You'll need to know which graphics chip yours is compatible with and what your monitor/screen can do. There is a log file called /var/log/XFree86.0.log which hold some information as well. Any ideas what I have to do in order to get this to work? Good luck. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: www.kierun.org/pgp/key-kierun PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Portupgrade queery.
I'm running portupgrade to keep all my ports up to date but have come to the following issue. I want to run the latest cvs version of XFree86 -- need it to get the Vaio to have X11 -- but this is not a port. So, can I specify an option to portupdate that will skip XFree86 in automatic updates? Something like: $ portupgrade -v -ra -without XFree86 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: www.kierun.org/pgp/key-kierun PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: which mail system is the best
Quoth Roman Neuhauser on Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:08:49 +0200 For the mail server, postfix and qmail which is the best? this question is too vague to yield a sensible answer. Exim (www.exim.org) is as well a good one. Clear syntax and easy to understand configuration file. Can I do the authentication by ldap in the postfix? yes. So can you with Exim. Does anyone now some resources about the mail (postfix, qmail) + Ldap Surly their documentation is on the web... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: www.kierun.org/pgp/key-kierun PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
