Re: my mail

2000-12-01 Thread News User
[Ooops, sorry for forgetting to pass a Subject header to sendmail..., and the bogus envelope sender] David O'Brien went a little something like this: On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:06:14AM +0100, News User wrote: I'm building news machines with two

ps/2 mouse freezes in X

2000-12-01 Thread Ilya Naumov
when i switch from X Window screen to text console and back, my ps/2 mouse cursor often freezes with "psmintr: out of sync ( != 0008)" message from kernel. the problem doesn't depend on moused running or not, as well as on FreeBSD version (4.x or 5.0). lots of my colleagues also report

Re: ps/2 mouse freezes in X

2000-12-01 Thread wkb
Try disabling APM (device apm) if you currently have that configured in the kernel. I experimented with apm yesterday (Abit KA7, with Via chipset) and got exactly the same problem. Disabling apm fixed it Wilko when i switch from X Window screen to text console and back, my ps/2 mouse

Re: USB modem?

2000-12-01 Thread Mark Huizer
I have a USB modem here, (Siemens), that I would like to get to work under FreeBSD, but I can't even find the right tools to get vendor and product ID's to add to usbdevs :-( Try looking in dmesg - USB device that don't have known product and vendor ID's have theirs printed. Failing that,

current.freebsd.org

2000-12-01 Thread Sean O'Connell
Hi All- Not sure if this the right place to complain or not, but current.freebsd.org does not appear to be on the net. traceroutes to both current.freebsd.org and usw2.freebsd.org (its alterego) fail. I did find that ftp7.de.freebsd.org has the 27 November 2000 snapshot of current on it ..

Re: current.freebsd.org

2000-12-01 Thread Jordan Hubbard
Not sure if this the right place to complain or not, but current.freebsd.org does not appear to be on the net. traceroutes to both current.freebsd.org and usw2.freebsd.org (its alterego) fail. I did find that ftp7.de.freebsd.or g has the 27 November 2000 snapshot of current on it .. was

Re: current.freebsd.org

2000-12-01 Thread Brett Rabe
Jordan: I can probably help you out. 612.664.3078. Brett On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 12:56:32 PST, "Jordan Hubbard" wrote: Not sure if this the right place to complain or not, but current.freebsd.org does not appear to be on the net. traceroutes to both current.freebsd.org and usw2.freebsd.org

world only broken for me?

2000-12-01 Thread Michael Harnois
=== usr.bin/mklocale yacc -d /usr/src/usr.bin/mklocale/yacc.y cp y.tab.c yacc.c lex -t /usr/src/usr.bin/mklocale/lex.l lex.c rm -f .depend mkdep -f .depend -a-I/usr/src/usr.bin/mklocale -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include yacc.c lex.c /usr/src/usr.bin/mklocale/lex.l:48: y.tab.h: No such

Re: world only broken for me?

2000-12-01 Thread Chris Faulhaber
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:52:34PM -0600, Michael Harnois wrote: === usr.bin/mklocale yacc -d /usr/src/usr.bin/mklocale/yacc.y cp y.tab.c yacc.c lex -t /usr/src/usr.bin/mklocale/lex.l lex.c rm -f .depend mkdep -f .depend -a-I/usr/src/usr.bin/mklocale

Re: USB modem?

2000-12-01 Thread Mike Meyer
Mark Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: I have a USB modem here, (Siemens), that I would like to get to work under FreeBSD, but I can't even find the right tools to get vendor and product ID's to add to usbdevs :-( Try looking in dmesg - USB device that don't have known product and

PnP OS = ?

2000-12-01 Thread Mike Smith
I have the modem in the office, not at home. And of course there is that tricky part where Windows wants my BIOS set to PNP OS=YES and FreeBSD wants it set to NO. but well :-) we can survive that for the moment. Can you expand on what actually goes wrong if you boot -current with it set to

kernel panics in 4.2

2000-12-01 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I sent this message to -questions earlier, but nobody seems to know about my problem: I just recently tried putting an adaptec 2940w SCSI controller into my FreeBSD machine (running -STABLE cvsupped and recompiled every night at 1:30AM) and since including the driver in my kernel I've noticed