Re: Another sound question.

2004-10-20 Thread Björn Lindström
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: now put a music cd into your cd player and type in (as root) cdcontrol play if you hear something that sounds like music your good to go Actually, that's a pretty bad test, since that will use your CD-ROM for the sound, rather than the DSP of your

Re: Firefox eternal loop when starting

2004-10-20 Thread Björn Lindström
Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: over and over again and never starts. Anyone know how to fix this? I don't think this _should_ happen anymore, but the solution is to run Firefox as root once. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

SuperCollider

2004-10-20 Thread Björn Lindström
I'd like to get SuperCollider (http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/) to work (with Linux emulation) on FreeBSD. Before I get on it, it would be interesting to know if anyone else has tried to do this, and can confirm that it works, or tell about any trouble they have run into.

Re: tar vs rar

2004-10-19 Thread Björn Lindström
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like rar for freebsd for the possibility to make predefined archive sizes. If I tar a directory and want to burn it (later) to a cdr is it possible with (free/OSS) tar to predefine such chunks? Or is there some other utility to do this for me? You

Re: About BSD

2004-10-19 Thread Björn Lindström
*NONE* [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I was just wondering how did you make BSD, how many people did it take you, and how long it took to make? I want to see if I and a team of programmers has what its got to make an OS one day. Not that I have a good answer to that one, but it might be that

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Björn Lindström
Benjamin Walkenhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It does not have the multiserver-capabilities you describe, but otherwise I like it a lot. That can be worked around by using some sort of NNTP proxy, such as leafnode or noffle (both quite simple to set up). That will also get rid of the need for

Re: OSS sound driver doesnt work

2004-10-15 Thread Björn Lindström
It appears that getting SB Audigy to work is a bit more work than that. Hopefull this posting on freebsd-newbies from January will still be useful: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-newbies/2004-January/001394.html You may also want to look around in BIOS to see if you can turn the

Re: Looking for better Web Host for my FreeBSD based hosing needs!

2004-10-15 Thread Björn Lindström
Lynette Tillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For the last year, we've had our company website hosted on a Virtual Private Server that runs on FreeBSD 4.8. I've been having some problems getting support from that organization and want to look at moving to a different web host. I have had a good

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

2004-10-06 Thread Björn Lindström
Aaron Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gimp. I agree. If any of the edits you want to do can be done non-interactively, there's also ImageMagick. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

FreeBSD firewall for lazy people

2004-09-18 Thread Björn Lindström
I'm finding that configuring firewall/NAT rules on the gateway to my PPP connection is too much of a headache. Are there any FreeBSD based firewall distributions, something like http://thewall.sourceforge.net/, but with some sort of wrapper (web interface, curses interface, or whatever) for

Re: X.org performance?

2004-09-18 Thread Björn Lindström
Benjamin Walkenhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or is it just my perception tricking me, while Xorg is not that different from XFree, technically? Is your configuration identical? Using certain modules can cost some cycles, for instance, so if you also started using any of those with your

Re: Removing the ports dir to start all over

2004-08-18 Thread Björn Lindström
Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Be careful with this one: rm -rf whatever Actually, _not_ getting into the habit of always using -f with -r is a good plan. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

at?

2004-08-15 Thread Björn Lindström
I'm trying to use at(1) on our co-located server, but unless I run it as root, I get this error: at: you do not have permission to use this program I know this isn't how FreeBSD behaves by default, so I'm wondering if anyone has an idea on what our hosters might have tweaked to make this occur.

Re: NAT trouble

2004-08-08 Thread Björn Lindström
JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A new rewrite of the FreeBSD handbook firewall section is currently being made ready for update to the handbook. You can get an in-process copy from www.a1poweruser.com/FBSD_firewall/ For more help post complete contents of your rc.conf, ppp.conf, ipfw rules,

Re: AMD64 support: FreeBSD v.s. Gentoo

2004-07-26 Thread Björn Lindström
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does Gentoo or FreeBSD have better support for the AMD64 architecture at this point? what is gentoo? is it some new OS or linux distro? It's a Linux distribution, so I assume the question was meant to be: Does Linux or FreeBSD for the AMD64

NAT trouble

2004-07-18 Thread Björn Lindström
I'm having some trouble to get NAT working on the Internet gateway of my home LAN. Here's my setup: I have compiled a kernel with the following options added: options IPFIREWALL options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=10 options IPDIVERT I have these relevant settings in my

Re: NAT trouble

2004-07-18 Thread Björn Lindström
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Where tun0 is the interface of my ADSL connection.) Is tun0 the real interface? No, the actual card is rl0: rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::2e0:4cff:feb0:5d5b%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether