My scroll wheel on my mouse won't work!!

2003-06-01 Thread Steven Lake
Hi all. I got a microsoft optical mouse with a scroll wheel in it and everything on it works great...except the wheel. I can't get KDE to do anything with the wheel. How do I setup my mouse daemon to use my scroll wheel? Much apreciated on the info.

Gated restart

2003-06-01 Thread DanB
How do you restart Gated. Are reload the gated.conf file. Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD and Windows XP

2003-06-01 Thread redrik
I feel bad about not finding this answer myself as I know how to do it with Win XP. My searching skills seem to be rusty. Question: How do I get my new Win XP box to talk to me FreeBSD Server? When I try to map a drive I get : The account is not authorized to log in from this station.

Re: My scroll wheel on my mouse won't work!!

2003-06-01 Thread cas
From: Steven Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/05/31 Sat AM 09:00:55 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: My scroll wheel on my mouse won't work!! Hi all. I got a microsoft optical mouse with a scroll wheel in it and everything on it works great...except the wheel. I can't get KDE to

Panics on large writes to NFS mounted FAT filesystems

2003-06-01 Thread DoubleF
Hello, A 4.8-R server NFS-exports its fat32 filesystem /E (called this way on both hosts) to a 4.8-R client through a 100Mbps network (FWIW, those are the only hosts on the network). Any large write (such as cat /dev/zero /E/zero) results in 10-30M being written to the server, and then

Re: FreeBSD and Windows XP

2003-06-01 Thread BSD baby
How do I get my new Win XP box to talk to me FreeBSD Server? When I try to map a drive I get : The account is not authorized to log in from this station. I think it's the Plain Text Password issue. I've dealt with it before on Win 98 but can't figure out how to configure Win XP to allow a

OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

2003-06-01 Thread David Gerard
OK. I know that after much fiddling with OOo 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2, it came out that OOo basically just, er, didn't work on FreeBSD at that time. So. On the other box (FreeBSD 4.8), we've just installed OOo 1.0.2 from ports. A few days' compilation from source. It, er, sort of works. It starts

Re: OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

2003-06-01 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:00:33AM +1000, David Gerard wrote: OK. I know that after much fiddling with OOo 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2, it came out that OOo basically just, er, didn't work on FreeBSD at that time. So. On the other box (FreeBSD 4.8), we've just installed OOo 1.0.2 from ports. A

file: table is full.

2003-06-01 Thread Hugo Saro
Hi list, I have a fbsd server as a gateway on my home lan. It's running 4.7-STABLE , specs p200 mmx 80mb ram 2 hdd's .. it works fine , but I do get a regular (sort of) problem. When there's some problem with my ISP and dhclient keeps trying getting an IP, eventually when I get home i'll have

Re: OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

2003-06-01 Thread David Gerard
Mark Rowlands ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030601 02:49]: On Saturday 31 May 2003 5:18 pm, Doug Poland wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:00:33AM +1000, David Gerard wrote: OK. I know that after much fiddling with OOo 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2, it came out that OOo basically just, er, didn't work

Re: fdisk/disklabel - Error: unable to write data to disk ad0

2003-06-01 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 07:05:56PM +0200 or thereabouts, Herbert seemed to write: Hei! On Thursday May 29th I installed FreeBSD 5.1 Beta2. The next day I've update to CURRENT from May 30th. I have a 60 GB ATA harddisk and during installation I created only 1 20 GB slice for FreeBSD. Today I

Re: OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

2003-06-01 Thread Tom Snell
David Gerard wrote: OK. I know that after much fiddling with OOo 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2, it came out that OOo basically just, er, didn't work on FreeBSD at that time. So. On the other box (FreeBSD 4.8), we've just installed OOo 1.0.2 from ports. A few days' compilation from source. It, er, sort

gdm2-2.4.1.3

2003-06-01 Thread DoubleF
hi, Hello, /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/ drwxr-xr-x3 root gdm 512 May 29 18:47 gdm gdm.conf in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root gdm2628 May 31 10:20 gdm.conf #chown gdm .keep_me chown: gdm: illegal user name _ what am i doing wrong?! The

Re: FreeBSD and Windows XP

2003-06-01 Thread clayton rollins
On Sat, 31 May 2003 23:48:55 +0930 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I feel bad about not finding this answer myself as I know how to do it with Win XP. My searching skills seem to be rusty. Question: How do I get my new Win XP box to talk to me FreeBSD Server? When I try to map a drive I get : The

Re: file: table is full.

2003-06-01 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:31:16AM -0700, Hugo Saro wrote: Hi list, I have a fbsd server as a gateway on my home lan. It's running 4.7-STABLE , specs p200 mmx 80mb ram 2 hdd's .. it works fine , but I do get a regular (sort of) problem. When there's some problem with my ISP and dhclient

Re: OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

2003-06-01 Thread Tim Kellers
I've been able to successfully build (and use) OpenOffice on 4.7-STABLE, 4.8-STABLE, and 5.1 BETA since 1.0.2 --I'm currently using 1.0.3. Before that, I had no success in building 1.0.0 or 1.0.1, (I didn't try building those versions on CURRENT)but I did have immediate success using the Linux

Repositioning /var | /tmp to avoid disk full condition

2003-06-01 Thread Joseph Maxwell
Hello, The 3rd edition of The Complete FreeBSD suggest repositioning the /var directory ( and even /tmp) to prevent filling up that partition. I ignored it and did just that today, filled it up. So I attempted the repositioning with the following recommended command steps and results: cd

Why won't gaim show me online??

2003-06-01 Thread Steven Lake
Just installed gaim out of the ports and added my AIM screen name to it and I can send and recieve messages, but it shows me as offline to anyone else even though I see others as online. Anyone know why that would be? All I need Gaim for is for my one AIM name. If anyone can think of a

Re: XFree86 4.3.0 anti-alias font problem

2003-06-01 Thread Doug Poland
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 07:33:51AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hi, I'm on a 4.8-STABLE box with XFree86 4.3.0. I'm going through the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html) and adding anti-aliased fonts to my system. The problem I'm having is

Re: Why won't gaim show me online??

2003-06-01 Thread Tim Kellers
How about AIM? /usr/ports/net/aim It requires Linux emulation, but I think gaim does, too. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Saturday 31 May 2003 03:17 pm, Steven Lake wrote: Just installed gaim out of the ports and added my AIM screen name to it and I can send and recieve messages, but it

Re: Why won't gaim show me online??

2003-06-01 Thread yussef
im pretty gaim compiles natively. its simply a gtk2 based app. could this be some kind of firewalling issue? perhaps you're blocking packets being sent to the AOL server. just a thought.. also, you could try naim. much simpler, and doesnt hog up nearly as much screen real estate. yussef On Sat,

RE: FreeBSD 4.8 running on Dell 1655MC Blade Server

2003-06-01 Thread Brent Wiese
I can't answer your question directly, but you may want to check out RLX... Much higher density (300ex model): http://www.rlx.com/ I know they're approved for Linux, but maybe they'll approve a FreeBSD image for you. Their support seems to be pretty responsive. Brent -Original

Re: My scroll wheel on my mouse won't work!!

2003-06-01 Thread Hasse
On Saturday 31 May 2003 15.00, Steven Lake wrote: Hi all. I got a microsoft optical mouse with a scroll wheel in it and everything on it works great...except the wheel. I can't get KDE to do anything with the wheel. How do I setup my mouse daemon to use my scroll wheel? Much

Re: My scroll wheel on my mouse won't work!!

2003-06-01 Thread Steven Lake
I got it working! thanks for all the suggestions everyone! :) On Sat, 31 May 2003, Hasse wrote: On Saturday 31 May 2003 15.00, Steven Lake wrote: Hi all. I got a microsoft optical mouse with a scroll wheel in it and everything on it works great...except the wheel. I can't

Re: lynx on 4.8-stable

2003-06-01 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 02:09:45AM -0400, John wrote: Hello, A few recommendations. 1. Check your environment variables and compare the list to the variables listed in the lynx manpage. There are some that affect proxies. Good suggestion. $ env

Re: Repositioning /var | /tmp to avoid disk full condition

2003-06-01 Thread Lee Harr
cd /var tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) cd / rm -rf /var ln -s /usr/var /var However the 'rm -rf /var' returned rm: /var: Device busy After trying all known tricks to me to remove /var, I concluded that since it was mounted from the /etc/fstab I should dismount it

Re: Why won't gaim show me online??

2003-06-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 03:42 PM, Tim Kellers wrote: How about AIM? /usr/ports/net/aim It requires Linux emulation, but I think gaim does, too. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT AIM does require linux emulation, but gaim doesn't. Ken On Saturday 31 May 2003 03:17 pm, Steven Lake wrote: Just

Gated Where the gated.conf file at.

2003-06-01 Thread DanB
Router is running gated. but there is no gated.conf file in /etc/. Where would be the gated.conf file located? Is there a differant file somewhere. Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot

2003-06-01 Thread Jud
On Sat, 31 May 2003 11:34:25 +0900, lukek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have done something pretty silly and not sure now how to recover. I installed 5.0 release on my desktop which was primarily a Win2k machine and now there is no option to dual boot. Well there is but when I choose the F1

Re: Firebird broken?

2003-06-01 Thread Markie
I had this problem too, if it's not that you don't have SYSVIPC in your kernel then it's fairly easy to get rid of... # ipcs -s Semaphores: T ID KEYMODE OWNERGROUP xx xxxx xx xxxx # ipcrm -s id from above -

Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot

2003-06-01 Thread lukek
thanks for the advice but neither GAG, Grub or FreeBSD bootloaders work for me it would appear that NTLDR has either been damaged or cannot be found. I could not get to that installation at all. It is a bit problematic as I usually only re-install once a year and don't (of course) have a

Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot

2003-06-01 Thread Jud
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 09:12:08 +0900, lukek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for the advice but neither GAG, Grub or FreeBSD bootloaders work for me it would appear that NTLDR has either been damaged or cannot be found. I could not get to that installation at all. It is a bit problematic as I

Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot

2003-06-01 Thread lukek
OK thanks for the offer of assistance. The machine in question has two drives ad0 and ad1. On ad0 there was a native NTFS partition with Win2K installed. On a separate partion I had Redhat. I decided to get rid of the redhat installation and use FreeBSD again. So I installed

Apache question - Method Not Allowed

2003-06-01 Thread doug
This only relates to FreeBSD in that apache happens to be running on it. But I am stumped and would appreciate any ideas I have apache configured to allow CGI under suExec. This is all working. Except I have a form that gets The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL ... CGI and SSI

Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot

2003-06-01 Thread Jud
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 09:45:44 +0900, lukek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK thanks for the offer of assistance. The machine in question has two drives ad0 and ad1. On ad0 there was a native NTFS partition with Win2K installed. On a separate partion I had Redhat. I decided to get rid of the redhat

Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot

2003-06-01 Thread lukek
You are absolutely correct during the installation process I chose to have FreeBSD install it's own boot loader just as I had a number of times before with older versions but there must be a subtle difference between the older versions and the latest. The disk is showing that the

Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot

2003-06-01 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, lukek wrote: You are absolutely correct during the installation process I chose to have FreeBSD install it's own boot loader just as I had a number of times before with older versions but there must be a subtle difference between the older versions and the latest. The

Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot

2003-06-01 Thread lukek
thanks for that hint. I am in the process of doing precisely that. I figure I can cp all the files to the samba share and then swipe and reload and should be able to get all the important stuff back. It is just a matter of spending my time now to accomplish this. Appreciated the

TWM focus

2003-06-01 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi ! I know this is not the list for that since it is not FreeBSD specific, but I tried the XFree86 list and did not get any answer... Since I'm sure some of you must are using TWM, I give it a shot. How can I make TWM to automatically focus a new

The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-05-11 - 2003-05-31

2003-06-01 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list

Installing a network interface

2003-06-01 Thread Verghese George
Can somebody help me with this question? Whne trying to install additional network interfaces with using /stand/sysinstall I get the screen Network interface information required However ethernet card details are not detected in the menu. I am using freebsd version 4.4 In an earlier

Re: Installing a network interface

2003-06-01 Thread lukek
when you rebooted after installing the card did it show up in dmesg ? Check if the interface has been detected by #dmesg |grep rl ( rl if it is a realtek card or whatever the abbreviation is for your manufacturer ) If the card is there then all you have to do is use the

Duplex printing with HP DeskJet 6122

2003-06-01 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, We just got an HP DeskJet 6122 for printing Unix docs. It comes with a duplexing unit, which works when driven by the supplied Windows driver. However, I'd really rather have this thing connected to my FreeBSD workstation. I've tried CUPS and LPRng, and neither of the two support

New Hams and BSD mailing list.

2003-06-01 Thread Carl Makin
Due to popular demand :) I have created a mailing list at qth.net for Amateur Radio Operators to discuss using BSD operating systems with Amateur Radio (Ham radio). The list is aimed at all Ham operators whether you're just looking for logging software or doing DSP developmental work. You can

gnome-applets-2.2.2 build still fails

2003-06-01 Thread Jukka Huvinen
After reinstalling, it still fails. Obviously something is still missing or wrong. Any ideas what to do? portupgrade -PrRf glib-2\* results the following errors: gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0_1: Patch patch-configure failed to apply cleanly. gnometerminal-2.2.1: usr/X11R6/lib/libvte.so undefined

Multicast Routing Table Modification

2003-06-01 Thread Dixon Siu
Hi, I am working on a project that required me to modify the routing behaviours at the kernel level. I have been searching information from the Internet and FreeBSD.org. But no luck at all. Basically, I need to do the following: 1. pick up the multicast packets before they are routed in the

Re: gnome-applets-2.2.2 build still fails

2003-06-01 Thread Jukka Huvinen
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Jukka Huvinen wrote: After reinstalling, it still fails. Obviously something is still missing or wrong. Any ideas what to do? portupgrade -PrRf glib-2\* results the following errors: gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0_1: Patch patch-configure failed to apply cleanly.

gdm2-2.4.1.3

2003-06-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, i have tried to set up the Gnome Desktop Manager on my freshly installed 4.8-STABLE box, but some errors refuse to disappear: error msg: gdm_config_parse: Authdir /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdm is not owned by user nobody, group gdm. Aborting. _ what i have already